How To Cut Cloud Gaming Bitrates In Half So That Twice As Many Users Can Play
TL;DR: Beamr CABR operating with the Intel Media SDK hardware encoder powered by Intel GPUs is the perfect video encoding engine for cloud…
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…
A Deep Dive into CABR, Beamr’s Content-Adaptive Rate Control
Going Inside Beamr’s Frame-Level Content-Adaptive Rate Control for Video Coding When it comes to video, the tradeoff between quality and…
2018, the Year HEVC Took Flight. [podcast]
By now, most of us have seen the data and know that online video consumption is soaring at a rate that is historically unrivaled. …
The Future of 3 Character Codecs. [podcast]
Anyone familiar with the streaming video industry knows that we love our acronyms. You would be hard-pressed to have a conversation about the…
Codec Efficiency is in the Eye of the Measurer. [podcast]
When it comes to comparing video codecs, it’s easy to get caught up in the “codec war” mentality. If analyzing and…
Will the Story End a Tragedy or Triumph? [podcast]
The Video Insiders host's Mark Donnigan & Dror Gill discuss Hollywood endings and story line arcs as they consider the state of HEVC & AV1.
Why Beamr Developed a Transcoder
Update 4/4/18: Since the original publishing of this post, we’ve built a product page for the Beamr Transcoder VOD which may be viewed…
HEVC today. AV1 tomorrow?
In case you missed it, Apple just snuck a little surprise into the first few days of 2018 in the form of their name appearing on the Alliance…
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…