Just finished a presentation on producing H.264 at Streaming Media West - here's the final PDF from the presentation for attendees who wanted to download it. Here's the class description - Encoding H.264 Video for Streaming and Progressive DownloadT
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I've been in London at Streaming Media Europe and gave two presentations which I've attached below. Here are the descriptions from the program. Encoding H.264 Video for Streaming and Progressive Download This semin
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This video tutorial details how to use Telestream Episode Pro to produce H.264 video files for Flash distribution.
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Dicas produces the H.264 codec used by Telestream in most (if not all) of their encoding products, including Episode Pro and Episode Engine. On June 11, 2009, Dicas announced a new quality enhancing algorithm called dicasVICO that the company clai
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This video tutorial details how to use Apple Compressor to produce H.264 video files for Flash distribution. Here's some background information explaining some of the encoding decisions made in the tutorial. First, the project involved a concer
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I recently taught an H.264-specific class at Streaming Media East in New York. Though the class was 3 hours long, I can distill a bunch of useful knowledge into this column if you don’t mind missing the sample videos and example screens, not to mention the insightful and surprisingly compelling lecture. Let’s begin. H.264 is today’s “it” codec because it …
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This short (under 10-minute) PowerPoint-based tutorial details how to configure the most important H.264 encoding parameters (profiles, levels, entropy encoding and b-frames), discusses why H.264 encoding quality varies by encoding tool and identif
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This is the second in a series of video tutorials on producing H.264, in this case detailing how to do so using Sorenson Squeeze. Here's some background information explaining some of the encoding decisions made in the tutorial. First, the
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This is the first in a series of video tutorials on producing H.264, in this case detailing how to do so using the Adobe Media Encoder. Here's some background information explaining some of the encoding decisions made in the tutorial. Firs
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How to produce H.264 video
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