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What is encoding? And is it as important to the science of reading as its counterpart, decoding? Test your knowledge by taking our quiz. Once you complete the quiz, you can see how your score compares ...

The old adage goes that streaming is essentially the process of taking good video and degrading it for distribution. The nicer and more technical term for that process is "transcoding," and where ...

Remember, use 2pass encoding if you want the the most effecient use of the bitrate you allow the encoder. Also remember higher bitrates are more CPU taxing to decode, and Divx5 is pretty taxing to ...