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Pleased to announce my second report on LCEVC Technology entitled LCEVC x264 Report: Live Sports & eGames, ABR Ladder. The first report assessed VOD performance at 1080p; this report tested live performance using a full encoding ladder and weighted average performance as well as BD-Rate comparisons. Here’s the Table of …
Encoding
April, 2021
March, 2021
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24 March
How to Reduce Encoding Time by Up to 40% With Negligible Quality Loss
Reducing the reference frame setting from 16 to 1 when using x.264’s veryslow preset decreased encoding time by 46% on ten 2-minute test files while dropping the average VMAF score from 96.06 to 95.97, a decrease of less than .001. If you used the Medium preset, at the default setting …
January, 2021
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16 January
Live and VOD Bootcamps at Streaming Media Connect
I’m teaching two boot camps (virtually) at an upcoming Streaming Media Connect event, one for VOD and the other for live streaming; each costs $199. The courses are designed for newbies who need to get up to speed quickly on these topics. If the courses sound familiar, I taught both …
December, 2020
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28 December
AV1 Encoding with aomenc.exe, libaom-AV1, SVT-AV1, and Aurora1
While 2018 was the year AV1 became known, 2020 will be the year that AV1 became interesting, primarily because of three developments. First, in early 2020, AV1-enabled smart TVs hit the market, right on the 2-year schedule announced back in 2018 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Second, over …
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22 December
Encoding VVC with Fraunhofer’s VVenC
For this review, I took a first look at encoding VVC (Versatile Video Coding). Specifically, I compared Fraunhofer HHI’s implementation of the VVC codec (Versatile Video Encoder; VVenC) against the Alliance for Open Media’s (AOMedia) aomenc codec and the x.264 and x.265 codecs in FFmpeg. I found VVenC to be …
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4 December
Five Star Review for AV1 Encoding Course
Just a quick note to celebrate the first review of my Encoding with the AV1 Codec course ($99.95). By way of background, I designed the course to help familiarize students with the confusing array of AV1 encoding parameters and to offer sample command strings that I have proven over weeks …
November, 2020
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23 November
Streaming Media Bootcamps at Streaming Media University
I’m teaching two boot camps (virtually) at an upcoming Streaming Media University event, one for VOD and the other for live streaming; each costs $199. The courses are designed for newbies who need to get up to speed quickly on these topics. If the courses sound familiar, I did teach …
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15 November
Encoding H.264-Advanced Topics
Recently I received a shortlist of compression-related questions from a consulting buddy; he’s always been gracious in answering my questions and I wanted to return the favor. Since he’s asking, I thought others might be curious as well; hence this blog post that largely incorporates my responses to his questions, …