To help guide your decision making, in this Buyer's Guide I'll present the questions you should ask before buying a live encoder for on-premise streaming. The alternatives discussed will include ...

This is an excerpt. Nielsen’s Audio Software Encoder decouples the company’s PPM encoding algorithm from the hardware encoder and instead makes it available for integration into third-party ...

This CPU-based software encoder is generally considered to give better results at the same bitrate compared to GPU-based hardware encoders. In reality, given that you're almost-assuredly not using ...

OBS Studio is dropping support for Nvidia's first generation of GPUs, which featured hardware GPU ... a super high-quality encoder and was often outperformed by software-based encoders that ...

264 encoders. The AV1 hardware encoder in ... Firefox added AV1 hardware decoding in May after relying solely on software decoding. While hardware decoding to view AV1 content is gaining broad ...

AMD's new RDNA3 media engine features the first AV1 hardware encoder the company has ever ... OBS should be able to do for you within the software itself. Performance also presents issues, with ...

One capability you can't get from either software programs or portable hardware encoders is true portability; if you're moving the camera to follow the action, you need an on-camera encoder or a ...