This is our second in a series of enterprise encoder reviews; in this review, we test Telestream Episode Engine. By way of background, Episode Engine is the highest performing option in the Episode family, with unlimited parallel batch encoding, Spli

So there I was drinking my morning coffee, perusing ESPN.com, and I saw a link to training videos of our American Olympic hopefuls. I'm as patriotic as the next guy, so I clicked the link, and the video opened to full browser window playback. I smirk

Here’s how it begins. Livestream Broadcaster is an exceptionally easy to configure and use live …

Livestream was kind enough to supply a review copy of their Livestream Broadcaster box, which …

In separate announcements at IBC, Brightcove announced two new products from its recent acquisition of Zencoder -- Instant Play and LIve Cloud Transcoding -- and the availability of Widevine DRM encryption and packaging within its Video Cloud platfor

I’ve been spending a lot of time with enterprise encoders lately, these expensive, mythical beasts that input and transcode multiple files complete (in some cases) with quality checks, distribution-ready metadata, and closed captioning. This in

If you have a camcorder at any enterprise, institutional, or even social event, you should consider streaming that event live. Live streaming can be free or relatively inexpensive, and live streaming services such as Ustream, Justin.tv, Livestream, a

Adobe Media Encoder CS6 has both interface and performance improvements. See them all in this …

I normally don’t use this blog to share experiences unrelated to compression, but my recent …

Another five star review for my book, Video Compression for Flash, Apple Devices and HTML5, …