Amazon Elastic Transcoder lets you convert media files that you have stored in Amazon S3 into media files in the formats required by consumer playback devices. For example, you can convert large, high-quality digital media files into formats that users can play back on mobile devices, tablets, web browsers, and connected televisions.

Developer Guide
Provides a conceptual overview of Elastic Transcoder and includes detailed instructions for using its various features.
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  API Reference
Describes the API operations available for Elastic Transcoder along with sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
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