I’m pulling together some materials for my pre-conference session at Streaming Media West (November 18-20 …
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Another Five-Star Review for Learn to Produce Video with FFmpeg Book
Reviewer Ian Kennedy recently reviewed Learn to Produce Video with FFmpeg on Amazon, and he …
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So, there I was downloading videos from YouTube to include in a PowerPoint for a …
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All codecs and encoding tools have a configuration option that controls the quality/encoding time tradeoff. …
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Streaming Media West is coming up next month in the City of Los Angeles (as …
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Many producers distribute the same encoding ladder to all viewers. However, sending a 1080p stream …
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On August 12, 2019, I reported in Streaming Media Magazine that the hugely unpopular MPEG …
Read More »SLC Launches New Course on Video Quality Metrics
Announcing a new online course entitled, Computing and Using Video Quality Metrics: A Course for …
Read More »New Five-Star Review for FFmpeg Book
Derrick Freeman is a luminary in the Streaming Video world, an expert on Wowza Streaming …
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One of the first operations I learned in FFmpeg was how to scale subsampled video …
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