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 ...

The next-generation High Efficiency Video codec (HEVC), H.265, has hit a major public milestone thanks to the work of the developer MultiCoreWare. MCW is launching a new commercial open-source venture ...

Jan Ozer: I'm here today with NETINT Technologies. Ray Adensamer who's got here at the show a very high-density H.264 and HEVC encoder that he's going to tell us about. Ray Adensamer: Yeah, hi Jan, ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Imagination is using MWC 2015 to launch a few new products, the first of which is an entry-level GPU ...

Content creators, start your engines. Today, Adobe officially rolled out hardware encoding support for Nvidia and AMD GPUs in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe Media Encoder, letting you lean on ...

I give computationally intensive workloads to my 4-core Woodcrest Xserve Xeon to crunch on, and a few weeks ago, I had it both encode (Handbrake) and tag (iVI Pro) a 39 movie DVD-rip backlog I had to ...

The dream of playing local co-op games with friends miles away has finally arrived, thanks to Parsec's aggressive optimization for low-latency streaming. By leveraging its specialized video encoding ...

From all the testing I performed for this article, it's clear that HEVC provides the best quality at the smallest file size, if you're content with the downsides and restrictions that the format ...