I discovered something interesting in the video encoding app Handbrake today. When you encode a video, you can select between several encode options. The most obvious choices are H.264 and H.265. The ...

The H.264 video compression standard defines the bitstream resulting from compressing video using the tools within the standard. The standard does not describe how the tools are implemented nor does ...

Replay: Broadcast standards are defined to ensure a minimal picture quality through the broadcast chain. But do the minimum bitrate requirements actually stack up in the realworld? Read on to find out ...

Maya Angelou once said, "You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been," and so it is with per-title encoding. What began as a one-dimensional data rate adjustment that ...

After three years or so in gestation, per-title encoding is becoming a required feature on most encoding platforms, whether in-house software or SaaS cloud providers. In this buyers' guide, we'll ...

Replay. When is the bitrate not the bitrate? Codecs are a compromise between quality and storage space used. Phil Rhodes explains why the bitrate on the spec sheet is not always what you'll get when ...