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The Common Media Application Format (CMAF) is supposed to be the Holy Grail of streaming; …
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FFmpeg to the Rescue: Decoding Files into RAM for Decode Testing
Choosing the Optimal CRF Value for Capped CRF Encoding
In a blog full of wonky compression articles, this could be the wonkiest article of …
Read More »The Ten Most Popular Articles from 2019
It’s always good to review which articles readers found valuable over the past year to …
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Author’s note: This is a very simple automation technique for FFmpeg beginners. I’m sure there …
Read More »Balance of Power Shifts Among HEVC Patent Pools
Nine members of the MPEG LA HEVC patent pool are leaving the pool and now will be …
Read More »Another Five-Star Review of Video Encoding by the Numbers
Any book author will tell you that while the revenue is nice, hearing from readers …
Read More »Open and Closed GOPs – All You Need to Know
This article defines open and closed GOPs, identifies why closed GOPs are better, and details …
Read More »NETINT Transcoder Tops in Subjective HEVC Benchmark Comparison
On September 11, 2019, Streaming Media Magazine published an article entitled Hardware-Based Transcoding Solutions Roundup: …
Read More »When and How to Use Objective Quality Metrics
Recently, video quality metrics have gotten a lot of hate, primarily from codec vendors. For …
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