One of the hardest choices encoding technicians have to make is deciding between hardware and software. Hardware-based encoders and transcoders have had a performance advantage over software since ...

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 ...

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 ...

PHOENIX—“Video is everywhere. More content than ever is being produced due to the lower cost of entry in acquisition.” This, according to Tom Lattie, vice president of market development at Harmonic, ...

100-Percent Hardware-Based HEVC/H.265 Compression and Streaming Device Features Compact Design, Low Power Consumption, and the Ability to Reduce Bandwidth Utilization by 50-Percent in Comparison to ...

I'm going to start off with a realization that hit me while writing this article: Every codec that I've ever used over my 30-year media career started as a hardware-based codec. And even though these ...

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 ...

Content creators, start your engines. Today, Adobe officially rolled out hardware encoding support for Nvidia and AMD GPUs in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Media Encoder, letting you lean on ...

The popular HandBrake video encoding app has been updated with Apple VideoToolbox Hardware-Accelerated Video Encoding, TouchBar Support, Dark Mode on macOS Mojave, and much more. The HandBrake Team is ...

According to the official schedule, GNOME 47 should be ready on September 14, two weeks after the unstable release candidate build, which is expected to become available on August 31st. No matter what ...