This is going to be a very quick look at the 9th generation HEVC NVENC encoding engine found on the Nvidia’s flagship RTX 5090 compared to 8th generation found on a RTX 4080 Super. Encoding Only For this test we are only going to be looking...
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Enabling Animated AVIF in Firefox 111
With the latest Firefox Nightly 111.0a1 you can now view AVIF sequences!
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...
Continue reading...Hardware Encoding 4K HDR10 Videos?
We are about to venture into a heated and abnormal world. Hardware encoders, designed for real-time encoding, may be reaching the point they can also be considered for video archival. The three common consumers options available that we will look at are: AMD’s VCN encoder (using...
Continue reading...AMD Hardware Encoding in 2021 (VCE / VCN)
It’s 2021 and there still isn’t a lot of good info about AMD’s VCN hardware encoder for consumers. To that end, I will present my own take on the current “war” between software and hardware encoders, then go into quick details of how to best use...
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