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 ...

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 ...

After three years or so in gestation, per-title encoding is becoming a required feature on most encoding platforms, whether in-house software or SaaS cloud providers. In this buyers' guide, we'll ...

Since you already have everything lossless, it doesn't really make much difference. I would do them at 128 or 160, and then re-do any at a higher bitrate if you can hear artifacts on those tracks ...

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 ...

Sorenson Media has launched Sorenson Squeeze 7, an upgrade of the company’s video encoding program. The new version features a trio of key new functions: GPU acceleration, adaptive bitrate encoding, ...

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 ...

We are conducting research aimed at improving the Quality of Experience (QoE) for immersive media. To identify the factors that influence QoE when watching 360-degree videos, we conducted a subjective ...