Can Amazon Elastic Transcoder encode in Microsoft Smooth Streaming format?

Question

Amazon CloudFront now supports Microsoft Smooth Streaming format for delivering adaptive bitrate video. I am just wondering:

Does Amazon Elastic Transcoder have an output setting to transcode to this format?

Answer 1

No it doesnt yet.

One option is to use AWS transcoder to transform the videos to MP4 and then use Azure media packager to break into streams. You need to build a SQS based task-worker setup using EC2 and handle the second part.