While we’ve covered quite a bit about hardware-assisted encoding—including the recent Streaming Media magazine article detailing the balance of ASICs and FPGAs against good-old-fashioned CPUs and GPUs ...

We’ll talk more about that hybrid approach later in this buyers’ guide, but for now I’ll point out that the KB Max seems to offer a multistream hardware appliance in a half-rack form factor (1.75" x 8 ...

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 ...