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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Stop Re-Encoding Videos!
I know this may sound like a weird statement coming from the author of FastFlix, but from the bottom of my heart, please stop the needless pixel loss! Every time you re-encode (aka transcode) a video it losses information, which lowers the quality and makes it...
Continue reading...A Raspberry Pi Streaming Camera using MPEG-DASH, HLS or RTSP
This is an improvement on my previous article, Raspberry Pi Hardware Accelerated RTSP Camera, now with the option of using more modern technology, MPEG-DASH and HLS! First off, if you don’t care about the technicalities and just want a script to do everything for you, here...
Continue reading...Encoding UHD 4K HDR10 and HDR10+ Videos
tl;dr: If you don’t want to do the work by hand on the command line, use FastFlix. If you have any issues, reach out on discord or open a github issue. I talked about this before with my encoding setting for handbrake post, but there is...
Continue reading...Raspberry Pi Hardware Accelerated RTSP Camera
Raspberry Pi’s are wonderful little computers, just sometimes they lack the umph to get stuff done. That may change with the new Raspberry Pi 4, but what to do with all those old ones? Or how about that pile of old webcams? Well this article will...
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