Dan Rayburn recently published the video and slides from my NAB Streaming Summit session, where I walked through real-world techniques to optimize x264 and x265 for quality and efficiency. No AI, no codecs from 2030, just practical optimizations that work today. If You’re Still Encoding with x264 and x265—Good You don’t need to jump to AV1 or VVC to get …

As third-party cookies fade into digital history, first-party data has risen to the top of every marketer’s wish list. Touted as the ultimate solution for targeting, personalization, and measurement in a privacy-centric era, first-party data is often positioned as the “panacea” for the challenges left in the wake of cookie deprecation. But beneath the optimism lies a hard truth: first-party …

I recently tested the Deep Render AI codec and issued a report, which you can read here. The bottom line was that in the tested low-latency use case, the Deep Render AI codec substantially outperformed SVT-AV1 quality-wise and was only slightly behind VVenC. While the codec lacks features like bitrate control that are necessary for most deployments, it offers outstanding integration …