The launch of FFmpeg 4.0 gave many compressionists their first chance to test the new AV1 codec, which is included in experimental form. For the first time, you had a single encoder that could produce ...

FFmpeg turned 4.0 a few weeks ago, an event I planned to leave unheralded until I read Tim Siglin’s latest research report entitled “Real-World HEVC Insights: Adoption, Implications, and Workflows.” ...

FFmpeg Batch AV Converter is a free tool that simplifies audio and video encoding using the full power of FFmpeg through an intuitive GUI with drag-and-drop functionality and progress tracking. FFmpeg ...

Now that we've looked at how to playback HEVC-encoded files, it's time to create them. There are a whole collection of tools and utilities that can encode HEVC, but in this article I'm going to focus ...

FFmpeg Batch AV Converter is a free tool that simplifies audio and video encoding using the full power of FFmpeg through an intuitive GUI with drag-and-drop functionality and progress tracking. FFmpeg ...

No longer confined to watching video on a tethered TV set, consumers have an insatiable appetite for video and they want it anytime, anywhere and on any device. Video traffic has grown tremendously ...

High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) will be one of the hot topics at IBC. It can support HD, 4K and 8K resolutions to potentially deliver similar or better visual quality than its predecessors at half ...

From all the testing I performed for this article, it's clear that HEVC provides the best quality at the smallest file size, if you're content with the downsides and restrictions that the format ...