Many Plex performance problems don't come from your server or network; they're caused by the files themselves. If you choose the wrong HandBrake preset when preparing your videos for Plex, it can ...

H.264 is the only compression technology that plays on all computers, mobile devices, and OTT players. This makes producing high-quality H.264 files compatible with your target playback devices an ...

FREMONT, Calif.-- (BUSINESS WIRE)--Blackmagic Design today announced HyperDeck Shuttle HD, a new recorder/player that’s designed for use on the desktop as an on demand media player. This new model ...

Beyond this, when choosing your H.264 encoding parameters, there are three inter-related things you should consider. First, you want to deliver the highest-quality video. Second, since advanced ...

The local choir that my kids are in is working on their latest concert DVD, and I was thinking about the best way to provide the content in higher quality. Assuming for a moment that they don't just ...

H.264 is designed to rock everything from your crummy little mobile phone to that HDTV you probably shouldn't have bought. As anyone who has played H.264 video on a Mac or PC will tell you, though, ...

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 ...

The word Codec is an acronym of the words compressor and decompressor. Codecs are a program that compresses a video and later helps to decode it. So if you receive an ...

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