If you've ever done any livestreaming on the internet, then you already know that one of the most important technical aspects of doing so is properly configuring your stream settings. Your selection ...

In brief: Intel has had a rough time launching its freshman series of dedicated graphics cards, struggling to get them to consumers on time and possibly with unimpressive results in gaming benchmarks.

So I was mucking around in Catalyst Control Center and came across something I had not noticed before, AMD Video Converter. I read the little blurb on it in CCC and it peaked my interest. I did some ...

Why it matters: AMD's new AV1 encoder and fully unlocked encode sessions will allow Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs to compete directly against Nvidia RTX GPUs and Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs in the streaming ...

When AMD bought Xilinx, it acquired a slew of new technologies and entrance into markets developed by the latter company. One of those unique technology niches includes high-performance video encoders ...

In a recent announcement, NVIDIA asserts that its AV1 video encoder has outperformed AMD and Intel counterparts, showcasing superior video quality. The comparison was done using NVIDIA's own GeForce ...

AMD's upcoming RX 9070 series graphics cards, built on the RDNA 4-based Navi 48 GPU architecture, will support AV1 B-Frame encoding. This feature is particularly beneficial for content creators and ...

I give computationally intensive workloads to my 4-core Woodcrest Xserve Xeon to crunch on, and a few weeks ago, I had it both encode (Handbrake) and tag (iVI Pro) a 39 movie DVD-rip backlog I had to ...

Beamr has unleashed a world record video encoding benchmark by showing 8K broadcast-quality live encoding in software running on a single socket AMD EPYC™ 7742 processor. "The AMD EPYC 7002 Series ...

Popular streaming tool OBS Studio just got a new release with version 29.1, bringing AV1 streaming to YouTube over Enhanced RTMP. As per NVIDIA's latest post, this is perfect for the GeForce RTX 40 ...

The OBS Project has announced the availability of OBS Studio 29.0 for Windows and macOS. The Linux version is still on 28.1.2 but hopefully, that’ll change soon. The most notable features in this ...