Modern image formats come with huge quality and compression improvements, but at the cost of accessibly until there is wider adoption. Right now (2022-08) Pillow, PIL’s primary fork, doesn’t have support for either AVIF or HEIF of the box. But thanks to other packages we aren’t...
Continue reading...AMD improves video encoding yet again! This time with Pre-Analysis
AMD made some impressive quality jumps a few months ago when they re-introduced B-frames to their H.264/AVC hardware encoder. Now they went and did it again with AMF 1.4.26 by adding temporal Pre-Analysis, which detects scene changes and can better insert index frames where needed. While...
Continue reading...AMD Re-introduces the B-frame!
We all know how import the B-frame can be for video encoding. At the launch of RDNA2 AMD promised to add it back into their Hardware Encoders for H.264, and finally on March 17th they did just that! The question is, will it actually make a...
Continue reading...Movies that need a 4K HDR disc release
There are still plenty of films that need re-scanned and re-mastered for 4K HDR UHD-BD releases. These are my wishes, what are yours?
Continue reading...Dynamic HLS Encryption for Video Streaming
The (internet) age old battle between content creators and pirates is an ever escalating arms race. It doesn’t seem to matter how much DRM and encryption creators put on their content, the next day there will be a dozen illegal torrents available. There is no way...
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