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From time to time, to illustrate things for presentations and classes, I make animations of simulations I do in MATLAB/Octave. The way I do this is to save a series of PNG's and then use ffmpeg to ...

FFMPEG is a free command-line utility that serves as the engine for most of the largest cloud encoding farms in the world, public and private. But it also performs many simple and essential tasks that ...

I have a question about encoding speed with ffmpeg. If I use a DellE7480 i7-6600U and using Intel quicksync. Vs, I get a computer with a thunderbird 3 or thunderbird 4 socket, and connect it to an ...

FFmpeg Batch AV Converter is a free tool that simplifies audio and video encoding using the full power of FFmpeg through an intuitive GUI with drag-and-drop functionality and progress tracking. FFmpeg ...

FFmpeg Batch AV Converter is a free tool that simplifies audio and video encoding using the full power of FFmpeg through an intuitive GUI with drag-and-drop functionality and progress tracking. FFmpeg ...

One of the hardest choices encoding technicians have to make is deciding between hardware and software. Hardware-based encoders and transcoders have had a performance advantage over software since ...

Editors' Note: This article has been updated since its original posting. Seven years ago, when I was still a clueless kid, I played my first video clip on the Internet using a 56k connection. It was ...