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If batting for team blue isn’t your thing, how about team green? Aside from dedicated fixed-function or FPGA-based encoder accelerator products, the first time I really had exposure to hardware encoders was courtesy of Nvidia’s CUDA general-purpose GPU framework and … Continue reading →

For Intel, hardware encoding of H.265 is also possible, if you have a Skylake (6th-Generation) or newer platform. Similarly to the previous, I opted to use intelligent constant quality (ICQ) mode with a very similar command line: -c:v hevc_qsv -global_quality … Continue reading →

What comes after VP9? If you answered AV1, you’d be correct, but unfortunately that’s not what we’ll be looking at today because the encodes for that are still in progress, but soon to finish. Afterward, there’ll still need to be … Continue reading →

While the previous post looking at VP8 is more useful as a baseline to compare against, the VP9 codec is actually quite relevant and contemporary. Spearheaded by Google’s internal development and acquisition of On2 Technologies’ portfolio of VPx codecs, this … Continue reading →

For the most part, the VPx-series of codecs never really were on my radar. I recall VP3 Theora’s usage in OGV videos, which persists on Wikipedia today, but aside from that, I’ve always had the impression that VPx codecs were … Continue reading →

I still recall the time when I first heard about H.265, the spiritual successor to H.264. It was touted as offering 50% improved compression efficiency (again) and was slated to replace H.264 eventually. However, it seemed that soon after, concerns … Continue reading →

We now arrive at what would be considered the modern “baseline” video codec, MPEG-4 Part 10, H.264 or Advanced Video Coding. This codec is practically universally supported by modern operating systems, browsers and even hardware acceleration. It is often found … Continue reading →

This video codec round-up begins with our low anchor, MPEG-4 Part 2 also known as H.263 Advanced Simple Profile. This was the de-facto compression method that ushered in an era of internet movie piracy under various guises including DivX, Xvid … Continue reading →

If you would ask me what I find most impressive growing up, it would be watching the proliferation of multimedia on computers and the advances in video encoding. From my younger years, I recall video compression being explained to me … Continue reading →