Transcoding video is a pain. We know that about as well as anyone. Amazon feels that pain, and thankfully, it's got the servers to back it up. Ahead of today's earnings release, the retail giant is ...

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This SBC handles native HEVC decoding well, making it a capable local media server when you avoid full transcoding.

HandBrake is celebrating a new milestone this week, as an update released over the Christmas holiday brought the transcoding program to version 1.0. That's a big enough reason for celebration and ...

Hardware and software support for the royalty-free AV1 video codec has been steadily building over the last couple years. Hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding is becoming standard in more GPUs, ...

HandBrake is a very popular and well regarded software tool for video transcoding. In the developers' own words, the program is designed for "converting video from nearly any format to a selection of ...

At last month's Video Infrastructure Summit (VIS) in London, both RealNetworks and Wowza allowed me to provide a "sneak peek" at a few features for their soon-to-be-launched media server upgrades.

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