If you're planning a Plex server or upgrading a current one, transcoding performance is probably a primary concern for you. We've come a long way from the days of 720p and limited bitrates, but ...

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This story began as an investigation into why Cyberlink's Media Espresso software produced video files of wildly varying quality and size depending on which GPU was used for the task. It then expanded ...

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 ...

I just received an Intel Arc 380 GPU today (bought for ~$115) that I intend to use exclusively as a HW decoder for my Plex system as my system (based on an Intel Xeon E3-1245v3) can't transcode 4k ...

Hi all, just wondering if *ANY* software out there supports AMD GPU for video conversion / transcoding. Everything I've come across supports CUDA but so far NOTHING seems to support openCL. I'm ...

Three of the fastest workstation CPUs on Earth slug it out in an AI-powered transcoding benchmark we designed to scale from dual-core to 64-core systems. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

In a move to improve efficiency for enterprises processing video content at high volumes, Akamai added a media-optimized offering based on Nvidia GPUs to its cloud services portfolio “Media companies ...