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 ...

ONTARIO—When you think about artificial intelligence (AI)–specifically software capable of performing self-directed tasks historically performed by human intelligence–it conjures up images of Skynet; ...

[Editor's Note, 7/20/12: After we published Jan's article, he received a note from Colleen Henry, Video Hacker, Google Video Infrastructure, with further recommendations for encoding for YouTube.

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 ...

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 ...

Video encoding is one of the most challenging problems faced by current video SoC designers due to very high computation complexity and data bandwidth requirements. This challenge gets compounded by a ...

An inexpensive new digital video camera that uploads clips directly to YouTube and Grouper could make the average technophobe look computer-savvy. Photo: Flipping for video Erica Ogg is a CNET News ...

Big changes are afoot in the broadcast business, a fault-line is appearing in the industry as content distribution pushes further online. Major announcements from large media companies backing online ...

The impact of H.264 on the world of digital video compression is growing. Companies such as Apple are already switching wholeheartedly to it. As part of the MPEG-4 standard (part 10), H.264 is now a ...

Netflix has recently announced that they now stream optimized shot-based encoding content for 4K. When I read that news title I though to myself: “Well, that’s great! Sounds good but… what exactly ...

How cutting-edge codecs and obsessive tweaks have helped Netflix to stay ahead of the curve — until now. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics ...