This story began as an investigation into why Cyberlink's Media Espresso software produced video files of wildly varying quality and size depending on which GPU was used for the task. It then expanded ...

Transcoding is well within your reach, even on older hardware ...

Although software transcoding is accept­able for transcoding most VOD streams and even low-volume live programming, most high-volume live applications need hardware for efficient transcoding, both to ...

If you have a server at home, there’s a very good chance it has a GPU, whether it's an old gaming card or a low-power card just used as a display output. Regardless of which kind of discrete card it ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. AUSTIN, Texas—Media Excel today announced a strategic collaboration with Akamai aimed at ...

I bought an HP ML310e G8 v2 Tower server that has served as my NAS/Plex/Whatever server semi-reliably over the years and I've always flirted with the idea of upgrading it with the primary reason of ...

I just received an Intel Arc 380 GPU today (bought for ~$115) that I intend to use exclusively as a HW decoder for my Plex system as my system (based on an Intel Xeon E3-1245v3) can't transcode 4k ...

Furtree Systems, a leader in livestreaming media server software that recently hosted a Streaming Media magazine survey on livestreaming trends, offers three levels of its award-winning Softvelum ...