OTTAWA—Automated format conversion—aka automated transcoding—has become a necessity for today's multiplatform broadcasters. It is the technology that automatically converts programs and commercials ...

Streaming on Twitch in 2026 means mastering bitrate, resolution, encoder settings, and audio for smooth, sharp broadcasts. Both Affiliates and Partners face the same 6,000 kbps video limit, but ...

SEATTLE—For those of us with gray hair and reasonably good memories, there were the good old days, when a station shot video in NTSC, delivered it back to the station either on tape or via microwave ...

Streaming media production starts with the infinite real world as captured by the lenses of our camcorders, and ends with the tightly compressed files necessary for streaming delivery. Along the way, ...

Hardware transcoding unlike software transcoding, relies on the server’s CPU to convert media files into different formats, hardware transcoding offloads this intensive task to a dedicated component ...

This article appears in the February/March issue of Streaming Media magazine, the annual Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook. In these Buyer's Guide articles, we don't claim to cover every product or ...

When GPU hardware acceleration replaces CPU transcoding, processor usage drops significantly, allowing more concurrent streams and smoother playback. Even demanding 4K HDR content becomes manageable, ...

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Audio-video transcoding has historically been considered a straightforward, traditional affair in which the encoded source video was decoded to produce a not-quite-perfect version of the original ...

JSON transcoding is a feature that has been added to gRPC in .NET 7. It allows gRPC endpoints to be accessible via a REST API, and it's much easier to set up than any alternative technology available ...