I know my brand new 4600+ x2 is a great lil CPU and all, but not <i>that</i> great -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon ...

Recent expert guides show that high-quality game streaming depends on tuning BIOS, GPU encoding, OBS settings, and network configuration together. Hardware encoders such as NVIDIA NVENC, AMD AMF, and ...

I'm looking for a socket 939 CPU for the purpose of ripping and encoding MP3s as fast as possible. my question is what stats are the most important for this purpose (straight single core CPU speed, ...

In a nutshell: Google just released AV1 3.5, the newest version of the video-encoding technology, which threatens to be a major player in the content and media industry. The codec now has much more ...

Hey!Watch, a new Web-based video encoding service that's both free and pretty speedy if you've got a good connection. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote ...

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Using HandBrake we converted a 560MB mkv file to the mp4 format and measured the frame rate each processor was able to achieve. Processors with multiple cores will have a natural advantage in this ...