MediaSilo makes it easy to share your files with clients by creating proxies that play in every major browser. This is done so that your clients do not need to download any custom software for the best possible viewing experience.
However, many of the files users upload to MediaSilo are already web-playable. In these cases, your file is loaded into the web player as is. This allows you to use a proxy that has a higher resolution or bitrate than our standard proxy.
Criteria for Using Your Source File in the Player
If you encode your file with the following specifications, MediaSilo will pass it through to the video player directly:
- Extension: mp4
- Resolution: 1920x1080 or higher
- Codec: H.264 (AVC/AAC)
- Bitrate Mode: Variable
High Quality Proxy Encode Process
If your source file does not conform to the above standard, especially if it is one of many video file formats that are not web-playable, MediaSilo will still support playback for it.
When one of these file types is uploaded, a proxy is created with the following specifications:
- Extension: .mp4
- Resolution: matches source file
- Codec: H.264 (AVC / AAC)
- Frame Rate: matches source file
- Bitrate Mode: Variable
- Bitrate: matches source file up to 7 Mbps
An example of this process would be if you uploaded an MOV file that has a resolution of 1080p with a constant bitrate. Our proxy process will convert it to an H.264 mp4 HQ proxy which maintains the 1080p resolution while converting it to a variable bitrate.
Whether MediaSilo uses your source file, or our proxy, it will also several lower-grade proxies of the file for playback in low-bandwidth environments. For more information, please refer to our article on proxies found here.
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