The quality of 4K movies and TV shows depends on whether you're streaming or watching on Blu‑ray. These differences can help ...

Take the Raspberry Pi family, for instance. While you could deploy Plex or Jellyfin on most Single-Board Computers in the RPi ...

Streaming software 2026 is transforming the landscape for content creators by optimizing encoding, reducing CPU usage, and enabling high-quality broadcasts on budget hardware. Low-end streaming setups ...

Abstract: Enabling high compression efficiency while keeping encoding energy consumption at a low level, requires prioritization of which videos need more sophisticated encoding techniques. However, ...

German video codec company Spin Digital has developed software encoding technology built on the VVC (Versatile Video Coding) standard. Spin Digital’s VVC encoder has been built from the ground up, ...

With AV1 hardware decode on mo­bile devices stuck in the mid-to-low teens as of 2025, and with VVC at zero, it’s clear that the race to supplant H.264 and HEVC will be contested with software-only ...

Streaming platforms and video services have long relied on open-source codecs like x264, x265, SVT-AV1, libaom, and libvp9, all readily available in FFmpeg. For many users, these codecs offer ...

If you use YouTube to discover and listen to music, you may no longer be bogged down by the insufficient audio quality. YouTube is preparing for updated audio settings which will open up options for ...

The increasing demand for high-quality video streaming has placed significant pressure on content providers to optimize their workflows while controlling costs. Bandwidth consumption, storage ...

When encoding video in VBR mode, I cannot get the target bitrate, the actual bitrate is always less than the target value. The encoding log shows the QP Limit parameter, the value of which is min: 22, ...