Live transcoding on the web has quickly evolved into the optimal workflow for streaming live events. In this schema, you send a single efficient stream to the cloud, transcode the stream to produce a ...

Non-linear video editing tools are great, but they're not always the best tool for the job. This is where a powerful tool like ffmpeg becomes useful. This tutorial by Elliot Isaacson covers the basics ...

Many high-quality live productions involve cloud transcoding, since sending a single stream into the cloud for transcoding is often the most bandwidth- and cost-efficient approach. I've been ...

The next big release of Kodi, the open-source media center application, is one step closer to reality. The second alpha build ...

I'm working on a commercial product that needs to do video transcoding. Our lawyers don't like that FFmpeg is in a grey area with MPEG-LA for MPEG4, H.264, etc. patents. Some quick searching doesn't ...

MEncoder has supported video encoding for a long time with the MPlayer Project and FFmpeg, which also now is part of MPlayer. Transcode is a new command-line tool on the horizon for video and audio ...