One of the best reasons to switch from Plex.

OTTAWA—Automated format conversion—aka automated transcoding—has become a necessity for today's multiplatform broadcasters. It is the technology that automatically converts programs and commercials ...

Streaming media production starts with the infinite real world as captured by the lenses of our camcorders, and ends with the tightly compressed files necessary for streaming delivery. Along the way, ...

I immediately changed these four Plex settings, and my personal media server setup is all the better for it.

Hardware transcoding unlike software transcoding, relies on the server’s CPU to convert media files into different formats, hardware transcoding offloads this intensive task to a dedicated component ...

This article appears in the February/March issue of Streaming Media magazine, the annual Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook. In these Buyer's Guide articles, we don't claim to cover every product or ...

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Audio-video transcoding has historically been considered a straightforward, traditional affair in which the encoded source video was decoded to produce a not-quite-perfect version of the original ...