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, ...

For all the different use cases for online video, from media and entertainment to the enterprise, there's one constant: If you're putting video online, you're transcoding it. And increasingly, you're ...

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 ...

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 ...