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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the 1980s, the world discovered the “just-in-time” manufacturing strategy. Now, Dallas, ...

Hardware transcoding unlike software transcoding, relies on the server’s CPU to convert media files into different formats, hardware transcoding offloads this intensive task to a dedicated component ...

In terms of the workload on a system, what's the difference between ripping a DVD (that is, taking a DVD and copying it to the hard disk) and transcoding it (taking the DVD and changing it to a ...

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, ...

Brightcove announced that AOL has selected Brightcove's Zencoder to transcode content videos for the AOL On network's 15 channels. AOL cited Zencoder's consistently fast encoding times and its support ...

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 ...

It looks to me that apple audio products like AirPods handle audio transmission better than the standard Bluetooth audio. It will send the actual aac file to the audio device to be decoded on the ...