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Codecs

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LCEVC Excels in Full Ladder Live Use Case Testing

Webinar: Video Codecs in 2021 and Beyond with Jan Ozer

A Basic Decision Model and Breakeven Analysis for Deciding Whether to Add a New Codec

Beginner’s Guide to Codecs

Encoding

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Lesson of the Week: Why BD-Rate is a Poor Predictor of Real-World Bandwidth Savings

LCEVC Excels in Full Ladder Live Use Case Testing

How to Reduce Encoding Time by Up to 40% With Negligible Quality Loss

Lesson of the Week: Per-Title Encoding in 6.2 Dimensions

Learning

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My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week of Virtual Presenting

Webinar: Video Codecs in 2021 and Beyond with Jan Ozer

How to Reduce Encoding Time by Up to 40% With Negligible Quality Loss

Lesson of the Week: Two Data Points for Producing Effective Webinars (and a Free Download)

Other

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Lesson of the Week: Displaying PowerPoint Slide Shows in a Window

How to Shine in a Zoom Webinar

Tools For Examining HEVC Bitstreams

The State of CMAF: The Holy Grail or Just Another Format?

ABOUT JAN

Jan develops training courses for streaming media professionals; provides encoding-related testing services to encoder developers; helps video producers perfect their encoding ladders and deploy new codecs. He writes for Streaming Media Magazine and writes books for Doceo Publishing.

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CONSULTING SERVICES We help streaming publishers economically and efficiently produce top-quality streaming video at the lowest possible data rates.We also assist encoding vendors in benchmarking and user testing their codecs and encoding tools.