With H.264 solidly planted as the codec of choice for just about every mobile device, we've come to a point where you can encode a video once and play it back on pretty much anything. Here's how. Web ...

Miro, a free media player / video encoder, just released a new update that adds drag and drop encoding and transferring of video files to the Kindle Fire. Miro, a free media player / video encoder, ...

How many streams do you need? That depends upon a number of interrelated factors, including the following: The original resolution of the video--you need more for HD than for SD. Whether the customer ...

I'm considering this solution because I will need to encode videos from my camera while on the road without a computer. For the amount of video I'm likely to shoot, the prices look reasonable. I'm ...

DirectX 12 has a variety of applications in multimedia environments, especially gaming and video. When it comes to the latter, it already provides APIs for GPU-accelerated video decoding and ...

Microsoft has announced new DirectX12 API compatibility for Windows which will offer a new way for apps to efficiently encode video using the GPU. The Video Encode API can be used by third-party apps ...

Apple has strict video encoding guidelines for its devices, and popular encoding tool Handbrake's default presets are a little out-of-date. So we put together our own presets optimized for creating ...

Low-cost FPGAs are now making it possible to implement high- performance encoding systems on a cost-effective and low-power FPGA fabric. This enables systems with the right combination of power, ...

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is a simple and elegant architecture created by Apple for delivering adaptive bit rate streams to iOS devices and compatible browsers, essentially Safari. Since its release, ...