This SBC handles native HEVC decoding well, making it a capable local media server when you avoid full transcoding.

Microsoft PowerToys is a free application that brings a bunch of advanced features to Windows for power users. Some of those tools give you more control over your mouse and keyboard settings. Others ...

Synology has always offered the option for hardware transcoding to take place. The company switched things up and not for the better with its X25 series NAS enclosures. Whether you've bought a DS925, ...

AUSTIN, Texas—Media Excel today announced a strategic collaboration with Akamai aimed at delivering video processing capabilities. A participant in the Akamai Qualified Compute Partner (QCP) Program, ...

Although software transcoding is accept­able for transcoding most VOD streams and even low-volume live programming, most high-volume live applications need hardware for efficient transcoding, both to ...

BURLINGTON, Canada—Evertz will show a range of products to assist broadcasters transition from capital expense-based business models to virtualized equivalents of broadcast hardware and an OPEX model ...

Akamai has expanded its artificial intelligence (AI) offering with the launch of Akamai Cloud Inference. The company has also made video processing units (VPUs) available via Akamai Cloud Accelerated ...

Forward-looking: Although FFmpeg is often associated with video transcoding tasks, it can also handle audio streams and files with ease. The open-source project is now introducing its first AI-powered ...

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