I have a TV channel that runs at 720/60fps progressive. Much of the content is 24fps sourced, so I usually do an Inverse Telecine (IVTC) to get get back to 24 FPS, when I compress for storage. Just ...

Video encoding is an art form for the streaming world, as publishers need to make sure their content looks as pristine as possible to the highest number of users. Helping publishers get up to speed on ...

When you compress video for on-demand streaming, you primarily care about three things; quality, quality and... let's see, oh yes, quality. If you're been encoding H.264 video with Apple Compressor ...

I decided to pit CodecSys against two different PC configurations running the x264 open source encoder, and the reasoning behind this is very simple. With its dual $200/2000 price points, personal ...

I give computationally intensive workloads to my 4-core Woodcrest Xserve Xeon to crunch on, and a few weeks ago, I had it both encode (Handbrake) and tag (iVI Pro) a 39 movie DVD-rip backlog I had to ...

Break out a blank DVD and fire up x264! The folks behind x264, the freeware h.264 encoder, have announced Blu-ray compatibility. That means you’ll be able to burn a DVD containing h.264 video that ...

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 ...

If you've ever done any livestreaming on the internet, then you already know that one of the most important technical aspects of doing so is properly configuring your stream settings. Your selection ...

We tested video encoding performance using VirtualDub-MPEG version 1.6.15 and DivX 6.7 with multi-threading enabled and SSE2 or SSE4 enabled where appropriate. We did a two-pass encode of a 15-minute ...