Optimizing older GPUs: Mixture-of-experts offloading and quantization enable large models to run on GPUs with modest VRAM capacity. Dual-use Plex servers: Idle transcoding hardware in Plex servers can ...

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This story began as an investigation into why Cyberlink's Media Espresso software produced video files of wildly varying quality and size depending on which GPU was used for the task. It then expanded ...

Three of the fastest workstation CPUs on Earth slug it out in an AI-powered transcoding benchmark we designed to scale from dual-core to 64-core systems. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

I just received an Intel Arc 380 GPU today (bought for ~$115) that I intend to use exclusively as a HW decoder for my Plex system as my system (based on an Intel Xeon E3-1245v3) can't transcode 4k ...

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Although software transcoding is accept­able for transcoding most VOD streams and even low-volume live programming, most high-volume live applications need hardware for efficient transcoding, both to ...

In a move to improve efficiency for enterprises processing video content at high volumes, Akamai added a media-optimized offering based on Nvidia GPUs to its cloud services portfolio “Media companies ...

Hi all, just wondering if *ANY* software out there supports AMD GPU for video conversion / transcoding. Everything I've come across supports CUDA but so far NOTHING seems to support openCL. I'm ...