Have you ever found yourself drowning in a sea of media files, struggling to keep everything organized, encoded, and ready for use? For content creators and media professionals, this is more than just ...

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HP and Dell has disabled support for the High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard in some of their laptops, Ars Technica reports. HEVC is a codec that enables the compression of large videos into ...

Config files [can be found in /app/configs/ when using Docker or in the /configs folder next to Tdarr_Updater if not using Docker] Log files [can be found in /app/logs/ when using Docker or in the ...

What happens when a trusted tech brand makes a decision that fundamentally alters how its products are used? For Synology, the answer is unfolding in real-time, as its recent move to eliminate ...

I've been transcoding videos on handbrake using AV1 which I think is the latest encoder. AV1 on the Mac is often incredibly efficient. I'm talking 3gb -> 300mb efficient. Even tougher material with ...

Streaming platforms and video services have long relied on open-source codecs like x264, x265, SVT-AV1, libaom, and libvp9, all readily available in FFmpeg. For many users, these codecs offer ...

FFmpeg Batch AV Converter is a free universal audio and video encoder, that allows to use the full potential of ffmpeg command line with a few mouse clicks in a convenient GUI. Among other things, you ...

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