Recommission Old Servers: Your video encoding capacity is in your warehouse
Expanding video encoding capacity may not require new servers. Adding VPUs to existing hardware recovers dense capacity in a constrained supply market.
ASICs – The Time is Now
A brief review of the history of encoding ASICs reveals why they have become the technology of choice for high-volume video streaming services and cloud-gaming platforms .
ASICs, A Preferred Technology for High Volume Transcoding
The video presented below (and the transcript) is from a talk I gave for the Streaming Video Alliance entitled The Nine Events that Shook the Codec World on March 30, 2023.
Cloud Gaming Economic Factors and Technical Considerations
The gaming industry has come a long way. In 2022 it played host to an estimated 3.2 billion players worldwide, generating a total revenue of $184.4 billion, according to Newzoo .
Reducing Power Consumption in Data Centers: A Response to the European Energy Crisis
Encoding technology refreshes are seldom CFO driven. For European data centers , over the next few years, they may need to be as reducing power consumption in data centers becomes a primary.
Maximizing Cloud Gaming Performance with ASICs
Ask ten cloud gamers what an acceptable level of latency is for cloud gaming, and you’ll get ten different answers.
Argos dispels common myths about encoding ASICs
Even in 2023, many high-volume streaming producers continue to rely on software-based transcoding, despite the clear CAPEX, OPEX, and environmental benefits of ASIC-based transcoding.
How Scaling Method and Technique Impacts Quality and Throughput
The thing about FFmpeg is that there are almost always multiple ways to accomplish the same basic function.
Insights from the Bitmovin Video Developer Report
The Bitmovin Video Developer Report , now in its 6th edition, is one of the most far-reaching and useful documents available to streaming professionals (now with no registration required).
How NETINT enables ASIC upgradeability with Software
ASICs provide a tremendous energy efficiency, and yet suffer from being fixed function with limited programmability.
