Microsoft PowerToys is a free application that brings a bunch of advanced features to Windows for power users. Some of those tools give you more control over your mouse and keyboard settings. Others ...

Broadcom Corporation has announced the industry's most advanced 65 nanometer (nm) real-time, high definition (HD) encoder/transcoder solution. The new single- chip transcoder enables a wide range of ...

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ARRIS has added an audio normalization feature, along with several other new features, to its VIPr transcoder/re-encoder. With the new software release, VIPr continuously measures and calculates a ...

Designed in a 65-nm CMOS process, the BCM7043 real-time, high-definition encoder/transcoder allows a wide range of consumer devices with varying video and audio formats to share a wide range of ...

Using PowerToys, you can extract audio from a video file with just a shortcut, and if you are a content creator, it is a must-have tool. In case you don’t have PowerToys installed already, then open ...

Is there a way to force Plex to transcode particular audio-only files while playing remotely? It appears that it will transcode FLAC files to AAC if they're above a particular bitrate. e.g., stuff ...

Hardware and software support for the royalty-free AV1 video codec has been steadily building over the last couple years. Hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding is becoming standard in more GPUs, ...

MEncoder has supported video encoding for a long time with the MPlayer Project and FFmpeg, which also now is part of MPlayer. Transcode is a new command-line tool on the horizon for video and audio ...