I give computationally intensive workloads to my 4-core Woodcrest Xserve Xeon to crunch on, and a few weeks ago, I had it both encode (Handbrake) and tag (iVI Pro) a 39 movie DVD-rip backlog I had to ...

Does a utility exist that will query the installed GPU and report whether it supports hardware-accelerated encode and decode of h.264, h.265, etc? Because googling an AMD part number and trying to ...

If you've ever done any livestreaming on the internet, then you already know that one of the most important technical aspects of doing so is properly configuring your stream settings. Your selection ...

The new Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs feature up to three encoders for 4:2:2 video and FP4 for ramped up AI performance, plus new AI tools for livestreaming, DLSS 4 to boost 3D rendering, NVIDIA ...

Higher bit-rates, resolutions and AV1 encoding are coming for RTX 40-series GPU owners, while streamers on older cards still get some tasty new hardware encoding features. When you purchase through ...

In brief: Intel has had a rough time launching its freshman series of dedicated graphics cards, struggling to get them to consumers on time and possibly with unimpressive results in gaming benchmarks.