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 ...

I need faster PC for ripping and encoding DVD's to my PC. I'll do some gaming, I.e, MS Flight Sim X, but that's about it. Majority will be video related. <BR><BR>Here's what I was planning on ...

In a world increasingly concerned with sustainability, the energy demands of digital infrastructure are coming under scrutiny—especially in streaming, where encoding and decoding dominate processing ...

Better performance doesn't always mean newer hardware.

Back in 2019, Intel and Netflix collaborated on creating a software-based (CPU) encoding implementation of the AV1 codec. As such, SVT-AV1 was born where SVT stands for Scalable Video Technology. SVT ...