Abstract: Techniques for managing the assignment of transcoding tasks to transcoding nodes in a transcoding system are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise circuitry and a transcoding management module for execution on the circuitry to assign a transcoding task to one of a set of transcoding nodes based on a set of task characteristics of the transcoding task and a set of efficiency values for the set of transcoding nodes, each of the set of efficiency values corresponding to a respective one of the set of transcoding nodes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles, and methods are described including operations for distributed transcoding of video clips.

Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques to coordinate control of bitrates among multiple computing devices employed in parallel to transcode portions of a motion video. A device to coordinate parallel video transcoding includes a processor component; and a monitoring component for execution by the processor component to determine whether a total current bitrate remains within a target range of bitrates to transcode multiple segments of an original video data using multiple slave devices in parallel to generate a transcoded video data, the total current bitrate comprising a sum of current bitrates of video compression performed by the multiple slave devices in transcoding the multiple segments. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Techniques for managing the assignment of transcoding tasks to transcoding nodes in a transcoding system are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise circuitry and a transcoding management module for execution on the circuitry to assign a transcoding task to one of a set of transcoding nodes based on a set of task characteristics of the transcoding task and a set of efficiency values for the set of transcoding nodes, each of the set of efficiency values corresponding to a respective one of the set of transcoding nodes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: An apparatus may include a memory to store a video frame, a processor circuit and a selective encoding component for execution on the processor to perform selective encoding of the video frame, the selective encoding to classify the video frame into a primary object region and a background region, and encode the primary object region at a first quality level and the background region at a background quality level, the first quality level to comprise a higher quality level than the background quality level.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles, and methods are described including operations for distributed transcoding of video clips.