Economies of scale, faster deployment and format responsiveness, plus drastically reduced CAPEX (capital expenditures): All of these are reasons why it can make sense to move video transcoding and ...

Consumers expect quality video experiences at the touch of a button. Without live streaming encoders, though, this wouldn’t be possible. Streaming encoders are an essential tool for transporting live ...

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Today's electronic imaging technology has come a long way from the first, pre-WWII, monochrome TV services that began the long-time competition with the cinema. The invention of pulse-code modulation ...

The story of compression in live broadcast production is a long, complex and ongoing one. But a new white paper from Sony Group company Nevion, entitled Video Encoding in Live Broadcast Production, ...

I discovered something interesting in the video encoding app Handbrake today. When you encode a video, you can select between several encode options. The most obvious choices are H.264 and H.265. The ...

Apple's T2 chip in the Mac mini, MacBook Pro, and iMac Pro can greatly speed video encoding, but by how much? Now that Apple has two machines with the same CPU, one with the T2, and one without, there ...

Popular streaming tool OBS Studio just got a new release with version 29.1, bringing AV1 streaming to YouTube over Enhanced RTMP. As per NVIDIA's latest post, this is perfect for the GeForce RTX 40 ...

The video encoding hardware built into GeForce GPUs is getting a small boost, according to a quietly updated Nvidia support page (as spotted by Tom’s Hardware). Previously, the NVENC encoder built ...

AMD's upcoming RX 9070 series graphics cards, built on the RDNA 4-based Navi 48 GPU architecture, will support AV1 B-Frame encoding. This feature is particularly beneficial for content creators and ...