Just to give another example for a Zencoder use case (although we're definitely small fry to Zencoder): one of our clients is an acting agency representing a small number (<50) of actors. Every actor has at least one showreel to be shown on the agency's website and they come in all formats.
Rather than setting up ffmpeg and dealing with the errors it can throw up, we just set up the upload form and Zencoder takes care of all the format conversions for us. If Zencoder can't decode it, it's safe to tell the client that the file is broken.
Rather than setting up ffmpeg and dealing with the errors it can throw up, we just set up the upload form and Zencoder takes care of all the format conversions for us. If Zencoder can't decode it, it's safe to tell the client that the file is broken.