Ever run into a situation where you need to encode a bunch of different videos to a bunch of different formats? I ran into just that situation recently when I was working on www.barrydonlevy.com . I needed to have a variety of formats for an HTML5 video site with Flash video fall-back. I tried encoding on my own computer using one the many free online applications you can download. Unfortunately, I wasted a lot of time with my code because I didn't realize that my encodings were not working properly with certain browsers. Looking into the issue more, I realized it wasn't an issue with my coding, but an issue with the actually encoding program I was using and I was pointed towards Zencoder . Zencoder is an online encoding service that lets you upload your videos for encoding. You have a slew of options to choose from and a variety of outputs to choose from. Options range from file size and resolution to upscaling options and compression levels. Output file types con