An Apple patent (number 7895045) for bitrate constrained variable bitrate audio encoding has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. A hybrid audio encoding technique incorporates both ABR, or ...

Encoding has never been a one-size-fits-all undertaking, whether you're scaling your output to requirements set by your client or gauging what your end-users can handle. Your encoding parameters ...

Before I started editing Streaming Media, I wrote for a magazine called EMedia, which covered the optical disc industry. That magazine is long gone, but one of the central points of its coverage ...

Now that we've looked at how to playback HEVC-encoded files, it's time to create them. There are a whole collection of tools and utilities that can encode HEVC, but in this article I'm going to focus ...

Bitmovin has introduced Smart Chunking to its VoD Encoder in order to increase the quality and turnaround times with split and stitch. According to the company, the new functionality optimises chunk ...

The impact of H.264 on the world of digital video compression is growing. Companies such as Apple are already switching wholeheartedly to it. As part of the MPEG-4 standard (part 10), H.264 is now a ...

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 ...

I have a TV channel that runs at 720/60fps progressive. Much of the content is 24fps sourced, so I usually do an Inverse Telecine (IVTC) to get get back to 24 FPS, when I compress for storage. Just ...

Netflix has recently announced that they now stream optimized shot-based encoding content for 4K. When I read that news title I though to myself: “Well, that’s great! Sounds good but… what exactly ...

A few weeks back, one thousand of our readers participated in our MP3 bitrate test. Today, with the little help of a stats expert, we have results—and a recommended ...