OTTAWA—Automated format conversion—aka automated transcoding—has become a necessity for today's multiplatform broadcasters. It is the technology that automatically converts programs and commercials ...

Streaming media production starts with the infinite real world as captured by the lenses of our camcorders, and ends with the tightly compressed files necessary for streaming delivery. Along the way, ...

Discrete GPUs also offer flexibility beyond Plex. If your server doubles as a workstation, runs machine learning workloads, or handles other GPU-accelerated tasks, the additional horsepower isn’t ...

The MPEG-2 compression standard has been widely deployed in video distribution infrastructures, such as cable and satellite networks, as well as in several consumer applications, such as DVDs and DVRs ...

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I've been out of the media server game for a long time, despite being really into apps like Xbox Media Player (XBMC), which ...

Content delivery network Akamai isn't waiting for the Common Media Application Format (CMAF) to be approved before supporting it. While the CMAF is now it Draft International Standard status with the ...

The rapid escalation of video content creates a myriad of challenges and opportunities for both consumers and content providers. In particular, the growth of Internet and mobile video is creating huge ...

In this article, we propose a Linux framework based on the Condor metacomputing platform to achieve high-throughput DVD transcoding. Although some LAN parallel transcoding tools for fixed sets of ...

In terms of the workload on a system, what's the difference between ripping a DVD (that is, taking a DVD and copying it to the hard disk) and transcoding it (taking the DVD and changing it to a ...