Which "recommended" encoding preset is recommended?

Question

This question may seem redundant, but the documentation is "recommending" multiple presets and it makes it confusing.

They are on the same page....https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/latest/encode-concept

Example 1:

(see auto-generated adaptive bitrate ladder or use the recommended content aware encoding preset)

Example 2:

EncoderNamedPreset.AdaptiveStreaming (recommended): This supports H.264 adaptive bitrate encoding. For more information, see auto-generating a bitrate ladder.

I don't believe these are the same preset. Yet they are both the recommended preset.

I might be making assumptions here, but maybe one recommendation was the old recommendation until the new recommendation displaced the old recommendation and became the current recommendation but someone forgot the remove the recommendation text from the old recommendation. If that sentence is spinning your head around.....welcome to my world. Any recommendations on what the actual recommendation is?

Thanks,

Nate

Answer 1

@nateClicks Thanks for your patience on this. I got the required information from the internal team on this.

Since “Content Aware Encoding” is a more advanced feature than AdaptiveStreaming, “Content Aware Encoding” becomes the new recommended preset.

The same information will be updated in our Azure documentation as the feedback has been shared with the document content author.

Hope this helps and clarifies the confusion.

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