You've never heard of FFmpeg, but it powers Netflix, YouTube, and Discord.

The Asus Zenbook A14 (2026) delivers potent performance, a gorgeous OLED screen, and well more than 30 hours of battery life, making it one of this year's all-star ultraportable laptops.

The popular open-source video transcoder HandBrake has rolled out version 1.11, adding support for encoding video to the MOV container format. The update also introduces new DNxHR and ProRes encoders, ...

Newly released benchmark tests reveal Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite outperforming Apple’s M5. The chip completed a Blender rendering task in 3 minutes 31 seconds compared to the M5’s 5 minutes 33 ...

Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? That’s usually an encoding problem; your software isn’t reading the data correctly. The good news is that Microsoft Office makes it easy to ...

An unexpected revisit to my earlier post on mouse encoder hacking sparked a timely opportunity to reexamine quadrature encoders, this time with a clearer lens and a more targeted focus on their signal ...

The GEEKOM A9 Max proves that a mini PC can step into the role of a true everyday desktop. It won't replace a high-powered gaming tower or a full creative workstation, but it's more than capable of ...

Imagine this: you’ve just finished editing a stunning video—crisp visuals, perfect transitions, and a soundtrack that ties it all together. But when you try to share it, your email client refuses to ...

When I try to encode with Handbrake nightly via QSV AV1 (8 or 10 bit), Handbrake crashes. This doesn't happen in HB 1.9.2. QSV HEVC works, but unfortunately, QSV AV1 doesn't. Activity Log, Crash Log ...

I’ve been doing some transcoding of videos from x264 to x265NVENC. So far some of the results have gotten really good compression ratios but I end up being disappointed by a lot of the banding that ...

I've been transcoding videos on handbrake using AV1 which I think is the latest encoder. AV1 on the Mac is often incredibly efficient. I'm talking 3gb -> 300mb efficient. Even tougher material with ...