Transcoding is well within your reach, even on older hardware ...

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 ...

There's plenty of useful tasks for your server's GPU ...

AUSTIN, Texas—Media Excel today announced a strategic collaboration with Akamai aimed at delivering video processing capabilities. A participant in the Akamai Qualified Compute Partner (QCP) Program, ...

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 ...

I bought an HP ML310e G8 v2 Tower server that has served as my NAS/Plex/Whatever server semi-reliably over the years and I've always flirted with the idea of upgrading it with the primary reason of ...

Intel's Arc Graphics platform, which covers discrete desktop GPUs like the Intel Arc A750 and mobile chips like the new Intel Core Ultra 155H with Intel Arc built-in, is designed for modern gamers and ...