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 ...

If you have a server at home, there’s a very good chance it has a GPU, whether it's an old gaming card or a low-power card just used as a display output. Regardless of which kind of discrete card it ...

Transcoding is well within your reach, even on older hardware ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...