Hardware and software support for the royalty-free AV1 video codec has been steadily building over the last couple years. Hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding is becoming standard in more GPUs, ...

In a sign of just how dramatically the video transcoding market has changed, RGB Networks has announced that it is preparing to release an open source version of its current TransAct Transcoder ...

HandBrake 1.7.0 is the latest version of the open source video transcoder, offering support for AMD and Nvidia GPUs and better Intel QSV support. Users with RDNA3 graphic cards can now use HandBrake's ...

A video straight off my phone or camera can be several times larger than its runtime seems to justify, and the obvious fix is to compress it. The trouble is that opening a typical video transcoder ...

I think people mostly stopped caring after the DivX ;-) 3.11 codec back in 2000, I don't think there's been a huge popular demand for better compression since. Anything since that has mainly been ...