I’ve been researching how to encode video for adaptive bitrate streaming, specifically the encoding parameters …
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Flash – the George Bush of Web Technology
I didn’t vote for George Bush in his second term; truth be told, I wasn’t …
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One of the tricks to speedy encoding with Sorenson Squeeze is to open multiple instances …
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I’ve been tracking Scalable Video Coding (SVC) for the last year or so and there’s …
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Xiph, Ogg and Crossing the Chasm When comparing Ogg Theora to H.264, most reviewers have …
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A few weeks ago, I published an interview with MPEG LA CEO Larry Horn on …
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So, I was doing some consulting work for a client who’s currently encoding with the …
Read More »Another Ogg to H.264 comparison
I recently posted an H.264 vs. Ogg comparison, which you can see here. Ogg vs …
Read More »Shooting for Streaming – Five Key Tips
Five best practices for producing high-quality video. Anyone who’s ever picked up a camcorder and …
Read More »Flash Player: CPU Hog or Hot Tamale? It Depends.
[Author’s note: In early May, Apple opened the API for Adobe to access the GPU …
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