The Video Codec Race to 2025: How AV1 is Driving New Possibilities
With numerous advantages, AV1 is now supported on about 60% of devices and all major web browsers. To accelerate its adoption – Beamr…
Automatically Upgrade Your Video Content to a New and Improved Codec
Easy & Safe Codec Modernization with Beamr using Nvidia GPUs Following a decade where AVC/H.264 was the clear ruler of the video…
Beamr AVC & HEVC Live Encoding Performance Milestones
It has been two years since we published a comparison of the two leading HEVC software encoder SDKs; Beamr 5, and x265. In this article you…
In the battle between open source & proprietary technology, does video win? [podcast]
Video engineers dedicated to engineering encoding technologies are highly skilled and hyper-focused on developing the foundation for future…
2018 Video Trends: 8K Makes a Splash
At the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, video hardware manufacturers came out swinging on the innovation front—including 8K TVs and a host of…
How the Magic of Beamr Beats SSIM and PSNR
Every video encoding professional faces the dilemma of how best to detect artifacts and measure video quality. If you have the luxury of…
Translating Opinions into Fact When it Comes to Video Quality
This post was originally featured at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/translating-opinions-fact-when-comes-video-quality-mark-donnigan In this…
VCT, the Secret to Confident Subjective Video Quality Testing
We can all agree that analyzing video quality is one of the biggest challenges when evaluating codecs. Companies use a combination of…
Will Virtual Reality Determine the Future of Streaming?
As video services take a more aggressive approach to virtual reality (VR), the question of how to scale and deliver this bandwidth intensive…
Applications for On-the-Fly Modification of Encoder Parameters
As video encoding workflows modernize to include content adaptive techniques, the ability to change encoder parameters “on-the-fly” will…