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OTTAWA—Automated format conversion—aka automated transcoding—has become a necessity for today's multiplatform broadcasters. It is the technology that automatically converts programs and commercials ...

When streaming media files from network-attached storage (NAS) to clients, there's a chance you've encountered some form of transcoding. This is when the server has to convert the video and/or audio ...

SEATTLE—For those of us with gray hair and reasonably good memories, there were the good old days, when a station shot video in NTSC, delivered it back to the station either on tape or via microwave ...

This article appears in the February/March issue of Streaming Media magazine, the annual Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook. In these Buyer's Guide articles, we don't claim to cover every product or ...

Streaming media production starts with the infinite real world as captured by the lenses of our camcorders, and ends with the tightly compressed files necessary for streaming delivery. Along the way, ...

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 ...

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Audio-video transcoding has historically been considered a straightforward, traditional affair in which the encoded source video was decoded to produce a not-quite-perfect version of the original ...

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