Hardware transcoding matters, but Jellyfin feels much better when the library is clean, predictable, and trustworthy first.

Live video streaming is a powerful way to engage your audience and deliver your message, but it can also be expensive and challenging to manage. You need to ensure ...

Cloud transcoding is one of the most popular workflows in video production and delivery over the past few years. For people who surf the internet regularly, the word “cloud” should be more familiar to ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Abstract: High-quality video streaming, either in form of Video-On-Demand (VOD) or live streaming, usually requires converting (i.e., transcoding) video streams to match the characteristics of viewers ...

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 ...

I immediately changed these four Plex settings, and my personal media server setup is all the better for it.