Streaming Media Magazine

Final Cut Pro X Tutorial: How to Get Better Encoding Results

When you compress video for on-demand streaming, you primarily care about three things; quality, quality and... let's see, oh yes, quality. If you're been encoding H.264 video with Apple Compressor ...
Streaming Media Magazine

How to Produce High-Quality H.264 Video Files

Fortunately, Compressor can access QuickTime plug-ins such as the x264Encoder plug-in that you can download at MyCometG3. Note that the developer of the site, Takashi Mochizuki, discontinued ...
Linux Journal

Advanced Video Coding on Linux

The impact of H.264 on the world of digital video compression is growing. Companies such as Apple are already switching wholeheartedly to it. As part of the MPEG-4 standard (part 10), H.264 is now a ...
Ars Technica

x264: Encoding 60 FPS produces smaller files than 24 FPS. Why?

I have a TV channel that runs at 720/60fps progressive. Much of the content is 24fps sourced, so I usually do an Inverse Telecine (IVTC) to get get back to 24 FPS, when I compress for storage. Just ...
Eurogamer

Real-time HD video encoding on PS3?

I decided to pit CodecSys against two different PC configurations running the x264 open source encoder, and the reasoning behind this is very simple. With its dual $200/2000 price points, personal ...