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.” ...

Video is the Internet. The networking giant Cisco estimates it consumed about 70 percent of all online traffic in 2014, and that share will rise to between 80 and 90 percent by 2018. The ...

FFmpeg Batch AV Converter is a free universal audio and video encoder, that allows to use the full potential of ffmpeg command line with a few mouse clicks in a convenient GUI. Among other things, you ...

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 ...

Apple OSes are extremely finicky about how their HEVC files are encoded, I am having a lot of trouble finding out exactly how to encode my files to work with iOS, macOS, and tvOS. Container Format: ...

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 ...