Zencoder has encoded over a million videos since we launched 6 months ago. That means that we have all sorts of interesting statistics about how people are using online video. Here are a few of them.
Source Stats
These numbers represent the source video and audio files sent to Zencoder for encoding, over the month of December. The sample pool is several hundred thousand videos in size.
Video Codecs
H.264
52.3%
MPEG-4
17.8%
WMV 9
7.6%
H.263
6.9%
VP6
3.4%
Motion JPEG
3.1%
WMV 8
2.5%
MPEG-2
2.3%
MPEG-1
0.9%
... 54 other video codecs
3.2%
Audio Codecs
AAC
52.4%
PCM
12.3%
WMA
10.1%
MP3
9.5%
MP2
2.5%
FLAC
2.1%
... 32 other video codecs
4.6%
Resolutions
640px wide
23.4%
320px wide
21.0%
1280px wide
12.6%
480px wide
8.4%
720px wide
7.7%
400px wide
2.6%
352px wide
2.5%
176px wide
2.4%
1440px wide
2.4%
160px wide
2.1%
... 81 other widths
14.9%
Resolutions (grouped)
128px wide or greater
7.1%
320px wide or greater
24.4%
480px wide or greater
14.8%
640px wide or greater
25.2%
720px wide or greater
9.8%
960px wide or greater
2.7%
1280px wide or greater
15.2%
1920px wide or greater
0.9%
Audio Channels
2 channels
55.3%
1 channel
44.5%
6 channels
0.23%
3-5 channels
0.02%
Audio/Video Only
Video only (no audio)
5.7%
Audio only (no video)
9.6%
Encoding Stats
These numbers represent the output video and audio files encoded by Zencoder, over the month of December. The sample pool is several hundred thousand videos in size.
Video Codecs
H.264
73.5%
VP6
15.0%
(audio only)
8.9%
VP8
1.1%
MPEG-4
0.8%
Theora
0.6%
WMV 8
0.03%
Audio Codecs
AAC
79.5%
MP3
12.9%
(video only)
5.8%
Vorbis
1.8%
WMA
0.03%
Resolutions
640px wide
30.3%
480px wide
17.4%
320px wide
16.5%
720px wide
8.7%
176px wide
3.5%
500px wide
3.5%
400px wide
2.8%
560px wide
2.1%
... 112 other widths
15.3%
Resolutions (grouped)
128px wide or greater
7.8%
320px wide or greater
25.2%
480px wide or greater
24.6%
640px wide or greater
30.5%
720px wide or greater
9.2%
960px wide or greater
0.9%
1280px wide or greater
1.7%
1920px wide or greater
0.1%
Audio Channels
2 channels
73.1%
1 channel
26.9%
If this is interesting, let us know and we'll consider publishing these numbers on a monthly basis.
