Inside Netflix’s bet on advanced video encoding How cutting-edge codecs and obsessive tweaks have helped Netflix to stay ahead of the curve — until now.

But like the quality metrics that direct the content-related aspects of encoding, algorithms that apply this data will likely vary from implementation to implementation. It's also very likely that ...

However, the H.264 video algorithm is highly complex compared to MPEG2 in terms of computation complexity as well as data bandwidth requirement. In fact, H.264 encoding and decoding is so complex it ...

Netflix's new encoding scheme is smart enough to have different standards for different types of video, down to individual episodes of the same show.

Netflix has recently announced that they now stream optimized shot-based encoding content for 4K. When I read that news title I though to myself: “Well, that’s great! Sounds good but&#8… ...

A new Radio World ebook explores “The Software-Based Air Chain.” This is an excerpt. Nielsen’s Audio Software Encoder decouples the company’s PPM encoding algorithm from the hardware encoder and ...

Optical communication travels at the speed of light, but the rate limiting step is often the encoding of information in a communication channel, known as the baud rate.