After three years or so in gestation, per-title encoding is becoming a required feature on most encoding platforms, whether in-house software or SaaS cloud providers. In this buyers' guide, we'll ...

Now that we've looked at how to playback HEVC-encoded files, it's time to create them. There are a whole collection of tools and utilities that can encode HEVC, but in this article I'm going to focus ...

Since you already have everything lossless, it doesn't really make much difference. I would do them at 128 or 160, and then re-do any at a higher bitrate if you can hear artifacts on those tracks ...

Bitmovin has introduced Smart Chunking to its VoD Encoder in order to increase the quality and turnaround times with split and stitch. According to the company, the new functionality optimises chunk ...

Following the model established by Netflix in December 2015, Jan Ozer argues against content providers applying a standard encoding ladder to all of their content because of the inefficiencies and ...