The optimal hardware for H.264 encoding is pretty close to a superscaler, OOOE processor with a wide integer vector unit. Unsurprisingly, newer SSE variants are quite fast and enable things that ...

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 ...

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Software encoding, especially in the cloud, is all the rage these days. Not only has cloud-based encoding reached feature-set parity with older local (on-premises) hardware-based encoders, but the ...

WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) today announced that NETINT Technologies, an innovator of ASIC-based video processing solutions for low-latency video ...

A common assumption when it comes to building a Plex or Jellyfin server is that more graphical horsepower would mean better performance, and that's a quite understandable mistake. For many years, ...

For years, the Raspberry Pi has been the default choice for tinkerers who want to host their own media server. It is small, affordable, and flexible enough to run almost anything. But with the ...

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 ...

Following an update to Photoshop for iPad, Adobe also released a new version of its video editor Premiere Pro on Tuesday. In addition to new features such as GIF transparency and HDR proxies, 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 ...