Inlet Technologies has launched its Compass Early Access Program, an effort to chart the course of HD encoding technology for the post-production, broadcast and IPTV markets. The Compass Early Access ...

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 ...

Blip.tv isn't the only company re-launching its web presence today: Encoding.com has also rolled-out a new look. The cloud encoder's site includes better organized API documentation. It also offers ...

Sorenson Media has launched Sorenson Squeeze 7, an upgrade of the company’s video encoding program. The new version features a trio of key new functions: GPU acceleration, adaptive bitrate encoding, ...

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 ...

I've been transcoding videos on handbrake using AV1 which I think is the latest encoder. AV1 on the Mac is often incredibly efficient. I'm talking 3gb -> 300mb efficient. Even tougher material with ...

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 ...