In a world increasingly concerned with sustainability, the energy demands of digital infrastructure are coming under scrutiny—especially in streaming, where encoding and decoding dominate processing ...

I know my brand new 4600+ x2 is a great lil CPU and all, but not <i>that</i> great -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon ...

In a nutshell: Google just released AV1 3.5, the newest version of the video-encoding technology, which threatens to be a major player in the content and media industry. The codec now has much more ...

MediaShow Espresso, the cool thing about this video transcoder is that it can utilize the GPU to assist it with the transcoding process. However, you can also solely use the CPU, making this a very ...

MediaShow Espresso, the cool thing about this video transcoder is that it can utilize the GPU to assist it with the transcoding process. However, you can also solely use the CPU, making this a very ...

I´m encoding a bunch of DVDs for the vacation, and CPU utilization never gets higher than 60% split evenly between the two cores. <BR><BR>I´ve dialed in High CPU utilization in D-Vision's task ...

Hey!Watch, a new Web-based video encoding service that's both free and pretty speedy if you've got a good connection. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote ...