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 Helps Businesses Keep Up With Generative AI Video Content
The proliferation of AI-generated visual content is creating a new market for media optimization services, with companies like Beamr well…
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…
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…
Beamr Live HEVC Encoding Speed Test on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable Platinum Processor
It’s no secret that Intel-based hardware is ubiquitous in many video encoding data centers, which explains the high level of interest in the…
How to deal with the tension on the mobile network – part 2 (VIDEO Interview)
In late July, I reported on the “news” that Verizon was throttling video traffic for some users. As usual, the facts around this…
The Need for Speed: x265 & Beamr 5 Epic Face Off
UPDATE 11/15/2017: Be sure to check out part 2 of this post which covers Beamr 5 performance on the new Intel Scalable Platinum processor.…
How to deal with the tension of video on the mobile network – Part 1
Last week, the Internet erupted in furor over Verizon’s alleged “throttling” of video streaming services over their mobile network. With a…
Comparing HEVC & VP9 Made Easy
Apple recently announced their plans to enable HEVC on up to one billion devices with the release of iOS 11 and High Sierra later this year,…