Video compression is a complex, compute-intensive task with numerous filtering and matrix operations. Current MPEG2 video codec chips have built-in DSPs, or special VLIW engines, and some hard-coded ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Digital video encoders are much more complex than their predecessors, analog modulators, which ...

One of the hardest choices encoding technicians have to make is deciding between hardware and software. Hardware-based encoders and transcoders have had a performance advantage over software since ...

This is the second segment of my review of the HP Z840; in the first segment, I compared performance during editing and rendering. This time out, I analyze performance during encoding. As before, I ...

As digital video continues to extend visual communication to an ever-larger range of applications, more developers are becoming involved in creating new video systems or enhancing the capabilities of ...

Originally created for ripping DVDs, HandBrake is the go-to tool for those who want to convert existing video footage into space-efficient formats for watching on iOS devices, with presets for ...

Tom Warren 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 ...

The video encoding hardware built into GeForce GPUs is getting a small boost, according to a quietly updated Nvidia support page (as spotted by Tom's Hardware). Previously, the NVENC encoder built ...

AACHEN, Germany & SAN DIEGO, Calif.–June 13, 2006–DivX, Inc., the digital entertainment company that created the DivX media format, today announced that it has licensed DivX video technology to TMPG ...