摘要 |
A method and system for managing the delivery of content over a content network is described. In one embodiment, a method for managing the delivery of content over a content network involves maintaining a transcoding brokerage policy for a transcoding system that includes multiple transcoding engines, where the transcoding brokerage policy defines rules for selecting the transcoding engines, receiving a request for a content element that is stored at a content source, selecting one of the transcoding engines to transcode the requested content element according to the transcoding brokerage policy, and causing the requested content element to be transcoded by the selected transcoding engine. Other embodiments are also described.
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