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 ...

Codecs are constantly changing and evolving, learn the latest in x264 with a free webinar from Moviola! Delivery has become a major question in the filmmaking process, from dailies all the way to ...

Telestream has announced availability of Episode 6.3 video encoding software. Support for the x264 video codec brings higher-quality H.264 encoding to all Episode software products. In addition, ...

Despite the unbridled enthusiasm among bloggers for Google's newly announced free WebM codec, a digital video expert has reviewed the new VP8 specification and delivered a severely deflating technical ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Testing by Facebook engineers found that the Alliance for Open Media's new video codec, AV1, outperforms widely-used standards ...

This week, Telestream announced the availability of an open source H.265 (HEVC) encoder, co-founded and managed by MulticoreWare Inc. I had a chance to speak with Telestream CTO Shawn Carnahan about ...

Blu-ray video authoring is an expensive proposition, but recently, an open source software group has developed the basis for an alternative to expensive proprietary software. Soon, making your own BD ...

Netflix released new details of its own streaming tests recently -- including a huge effort to determine whether x265 (HEVC), VP9, or x264 should be used for future projects. Share on Facebook (opens ...

Guys I would like to ask about audio quality when playing back xvids or x264 files. From what I'm noticed xvids have better sound than x264's for example if I watch a tv show that was converted to ...

MEncoder is a wonderful little command-line utility included with MPlayer for encoding video. It can take as its source file any video format that MPlayer can read, including Windows Media, MPEG-2 ...