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The UTF-8 charset implementation, which is available in all JDK/JRE releases from Sun, has been updated recently to reject non-shortest-form UTF-8 byte sequences. This is because the old ...

If you haven’t already, sometime in 2015 you’ll have to encode your files to HEVC format for the first time. No worries, we’re here to help with this guide to encoding to HEVC using the MainConcept ...

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Apple's T2 chip in the Mac mini, MacBook Pro, and iMac Pro can greatly speed video encoding, but by how much? Now that Apple has two machines with the same CPU, one with the T2, and one without, there ...