Hardware transcoding matters, but Jellyfin feels much better when the library is clean, predictable, and trustworthy first.

This story began as an investigation into why Cyberlink's Media Espresso software produced video files of wildly varying quality and size depending on which GPU was used for the task. It then expanded ...

1Legion, a provider of bare-metal GPU infrastructure, said Thursday it is offering an RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell server aimed at broadcast operators, over-the-top streaming platforms and media software-as ...

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Three of the fastest workstation CPUs on Earth slug it out in an AI-powered transcoding benchmark we designed to scale from dual-core to 64-core systems. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

Although software transcoding is accept­able for transcoding most VOD streams and even low-volume live programming, most high-volume live applications need hardware for efficient transcoding, both to ...

I just received an Intel Arc 380 GPU today (bought for ~$115) that I intend to use exclusively as a HW decoder for my Plex system as my system (based on an Intel Xeon E3-1245v3) can't transcode 4k ...

PrimeTranscoder is a new video-transcoding application for Mac OS from Imagine Products. As well as GPU acceleration, the company claims it offers many features that make it more robust than any other ...

Hi all, just wondering if *ANY* software out there supports AMD GPU for video conversion / transcoding. Everything I've come across supports CUDA but so far NOTHING seems to support openCL. I'm ...