Encoding has never been a one-size-fits-all undertaking, whether you're scaling your output to requirements set by your client or gauging what your end-users can handle. Your encoding parameters ...

Remember, use 2pass encoding if you want the the most effecient use of the bitrate you allow the encoder. Also remember higher bitrates are more CPU taxing to decode, and Divx5 is pretty taxing to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2026, AV1 hardware encoding and platform-specific OBS settings have emerged as the key to professional-grade streaming. Updated technical guides show that matching encoder choice, bitrate, and ...

Now that we've looked at how to playback HEVC-encoded files, it's time to create them. There are a whole collection of tools and utilities that can encode HEVC, but in this article I'm going to focus ...

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… what exactly ...