Streaming Media Magazine

Roundup Review: Looking at Sub-$2,000 Hardware H.264 Encoders

For the last decade, I’ve used a variety of H.264 encoders for livestreaming events, typically conference events that involve one or more presenters and one or more computer screen inputs. The single ...
TechSpot

Intel Arc AV1 encoder beats AMD and Nvidia's H.264 encoders in early tests

In brief: Intel has had a rough time launching its freshman series of dedicated graphics cards, struggling to get them to consumers on time and possibly with unimpressive results in gaming benchmarks.
Radio World

PPM Finds Its Way Into Audio Processing

A new Radio World ebook explores “The Software-Based Air Chain.” This is an excerpt. Nielsen’s Audio Software Encoder decouples the company’s PPM encoding algorithm from the hardware encoder and ...
Ars Technica

Apple Videotoolbox AV1 video encoding is almost too good to be true

I've been transcoding videos on handbrake using AV1 which I think is the latest encoder. AV1 on the Mac is often incredibly efficient. I'm talking 3gb -> 300mb efficient. Even tougher material with ...
Streaming Media Magazine

Roundup Review: Looking at Sub-$2,000 Hardware H.264 Encoders

Each H.264 encoder was set to use 1280x720p 29.97 fps at various bitrates: 5Mbps, 2.5Mbps, 1Mbps, and 500Kbps. The output stream from the encoders was pushed via RTMP to the local streaming server, ...