AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive Statmux adds MPEG2 support and other features

AWS Elemental MediaLive Statistical Multiplexing (Statmux) now supports MPEG-2 encoding. Broadcasters can now use the AWS cloud to perform MPEG-2 encoding to feed legacy devices with limited codec support, without needing to perform expensive upgrades of their customer’s or partner’s decoding devices. Now that MediaLive Statmux supports MPEG-2, and previously supported the AVC and HEVC codecs, broadcasters can now use MediaLive Statmux to reach the vast majority of devices that connect them to their customers.

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