FFMPEG's MPEG-4 Part 2 encoder is scarily effective, if slow. AMD's AVC is worthless (crap for an H.264 encoder, no better than the ASP encoders - it'd do better if more bitrate could be thrown at it) ...

If you've ever done any livestreaming on the internet, then you already know that one of the most important technical aspects of doing so is properly configuring your stream settings. Your selection ...

So I was mucking around in Catalyst Control Center and came across something I had not noticed before, AMD Video Converter. I read the little blurb on it in CCC and it peaked my interest. I did some ...

In brief: Intel has had a rough time launching its freshman series of dedicated graphics cards, struggling to get them to consumers on time and possibly with unimpressive results in gaming benchmarks.

When AMD bought Xilinx, it acquired a slew of new technologies and entrance into markets developed by the latter company. One of those unique technology niches includes high-performance video encoders ...

Why it matters: AMD's new AV1 encoder and fully unlocked encode sessions will allow Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs to compete directly against Nvidia RTX GPUs and Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs in the streaming ...

It’s a hard truth, but AMD’s Radeon graphics cards have never been particularly amazing in content creation or live streaming workflows. CUDA runs the world for video editing, and the AMF/VCE video ...

Video codec specialists at Beamr Imaging claim to have achieved a world first for high resolution video encoding performance. Its latest Beamr 5 software, running on a single socket AMD Epyc 7742 ...

AMD's upcoming RX 9070 series graphics cards, built on the RDNA 4-based Navi 48 GPU architecture, will support AV1 B-Frame encoding. This feature is particularly beneficial for content creators and ...

Popular streaming tool OBS Studio just got a new release with version 29.1, bringing AV1 streaming to YouTube over Enhanced RTMP. As per NVIDIA's latest post, this is perfect for the GeForce RTX 40 ...