The lines are blurring in the field of encoding solutions. Not long ago there seemed to be a specific product for a narrow range of input and output file types. Now, nearly every product outputs files ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the 1980s, the world discovered the “just-in-time” manufacturing strategy. Now, Dallas, ...

In terms of the workload on a system, what's the difference between ripping a DVD (that is, taking a DVD and copying it to the hard disk) and transcoding it (taking the DVD and changing it to a ...

This article appears in the February/March issue of Streaming Media magazine, the annual Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook. In these Buyer's Guide articles, we don't claim to cover every product or ...

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I'm currently using Plex on my Synology NAS and I quite like it, but the Synology is just not up to the task for anything beyond basic transcoding. So I would like to create a dedicated server to ...

TransMedia on Monday announced that its Glide Mobile service works with the iPhone. Glide Mobile is free to use for its basic account, which gives you 2GB of storage. Glide Mobile works with a client ...