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'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 ...

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 ...

In a world increasingly concerned with sustainability, the energy demands of digital infrastructure are coming under scrutiny—especially in streaming, where encoding and decoding dominate processing ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS, NV – Media Excel, a leader in advanced real-time video encoding and transcoding solutions, today announced that it has launched a new generation of video compression professional appliances ...

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 ...

June 28, 2010 -- Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids today announced that the company is now shipping the powerful new Flux HD video capture and pre-processing hardware, plus a previously-unannounced new ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest update for Adobe's Premiere Pro brings a big pile of updates and new features to one of the foremost video editing packages, including high-performance on-device speech transcription and an ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Adobe is releasing a new update to Premiere Pro this week that includes hardware ...