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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to the third tutorial in our series on new features in Sony Vegas Pro 11. In this installment we're going to talk about GPU Assist. This is an exciting feature for Vegas users because, for the ...

It’s been a couple of weeks since Intel launched its long-awaited top-end Arc GPUs, the A770 and A750, both of which we put through our gauntlet of tests, including rendering, encoding, photogrammetry ...

The world of video codecs can be a confusing one. Popular codecs including HEVC (H.265) and AVC (H.264) are widely supported, and will be familiar to streamers. But there's another codec that gaining ...

Transcoding is well within your reach, even on older hardware ...

After testing the world's first AV1 GPU encoder in Intel's debut Arc graphics cards, all we can say is the future of video streaming is very bright—and significantly less blocky.

This story began as an investigation into why Cyberlink's Media Espresso software produced video files of wildly varying quality and size depending on which GPU was used for the task. It then expanded ...