Streaming media production starts with the infinite real world as captured by the lenses of our camcorders, and ends with the tightly compressed files necessary for streaming delivery. Along the way, ...

The MPEG-2 compression standard has been widely deployed in video distribution infrastructures, such as cable and satellite networks, as well as in several consumer applications, such as DVDs and DVRs ...

In terms of the workload on a system, what's the difference between ripping a DVD (that is, taking a DVD and copying it to the hard disk) and transcoding it (taking the DVD and changing it to a ...

Live transcoding on the web has quickly evolved into the optimal workflow for streaming live events. In this schema, you send a single efficient stream to the cloud, transcode the stream to produce a ...

Hardware transcoding unlike software transcoding, relies on the server’s CPU to convert media files into different formats, hardware transcoding offloads this intensive task to a dedicated component ...

In Plex’s defense, I can opt out of disclosing certain information. But I’m still not comfortable sending any data to an ...

Just because you can use a Raspberry Pi as a media server doesn’t mean that you should. I’d say there are better uses for ...