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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas—Media Excel today announced a strategic collaboration with Akamai aimed at delivering video processing capabilities. A participant in the Akamai Qualified Compute Partner (QCP) Program, ...

There's plenty of useful tasks for your server's GPU ...

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 ...

In a move to improve efficiency for enterprises processing video content at high volumes, Akamai added a media-optimized offering based on Nvidia GPUs to its cloud services portfolio “Media companies ...