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• Turbo.264 update brings iPhone formats, customizable encoding settings

  Published: August 7, 2007, 7:00 am

  Tags: Elgato, Encoding, H 264, Quicktime, Turbo 264, Turbo 264, Turbo264, Video

  to many Mac user's video encoding efforts, it's only compatible with apps that use QuickTime for encoding and export, so HandBrake and VisualHub die-hards are out of luck. Still, if you use QuickTime itself, Elgato's products (such as EyeTV) or any other QuickTime-compatible video encoding apps, the Turbo.264 is a fantastic companion that is

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• Save space on your iPhone by re-encoding movies and TV shows

  Published: August 11, 2007, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Encoding, Formats, Iphone, Quality, Turbo 264, Turbo264, Video

  I'll use Blade Runner as our encoding guinea pig (which runs a length of 1:56) and Handbrake for all the encoding. Following are a few samples of how far you can compress a movie, along with the settings you can use in apps like Handbrake and TUAW favorite VisualHub to try this out for yourself.Continue reading Save space on your iPhone by

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• DivX sez 100 million certified video devices have been shipped

  Published: August 16, 2007, 10:48 pm

  Tags: 100 Million, 100million, Codec, Divx, Encoding, Milestone, Video, Video Format, Videoformat

  Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable VideoMoving 100 million of anything is no easy feat, and DivX is using this very milestone to throw itself a party. Reportedly, over 100 million DivX Certified video devices have shipped out "since the launch of the DivX Certification program in 2003," and it notes alliances with LG, Philips, Samsung,

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• Handbrake 0.9 released with speed, quality enhancements and more

  Published: August 19, 2007, 2:14 pm

  Tags: Conversion, Converting, Dvd, Encoding, Handbrake, Ripping

  have to customize your encoding settings for the iPhone, thanks to new presets that simplify the process.Altogether, nearly 300 changes were made for this new version, so head on over and give it a spin.Thanks JimRead   Permalink   Email this   Comments

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• Featured Windows Download: Stream XviD and DivX to Your Xbox with Transcode 360

  Published: October 9, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Downloads, Encoding, Featured Windows Download, Transcoding, Windows, Windows Media Center

  Windows only: Windows Media Center can play back virtually any video file you've installed a codec for, but if you're rocking a Windows Media Center extender—like your Xbox 360, for example—you can only play back a few supported Windows Media video types by default. Freeware application Transcode 360 runs on your Media Center

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• Optibase IPTV Encoding Platforms Will Be Installed At Bharti Airtel, India

  Published: October 13, 2007, 2:24 pm

  Tags: Business, Encoding Platforms, India, Iptv, Iptv Solutions

  Optibase Ltd. (NASDAQ:OBAS), a leading provider of advanced digital video solutions, announced today that Airtel Broadband & Telephone Services (B&TS), India's largest private broadband and telephone service provider, chose Optibase H.264 Media Gateway (MGW) 5100 IPTV encoding platforms for its planned IPTV service offerings.

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• (charset) (character encoding)

  Published: September 23, 2007, 9:24 pm

  Tags: Develop, Linux, Encoding

  (or charsets) andcharacter encodings. They are two different things. A charset is a mapthat defines which numeric value represents a particular glyph. Acharacter encoding defines how numeric values are serialized into astream of bytes. For example Unicode can be encoded as UTF-8 which whichis space effecient and provides compatibility with the

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• The DAM Tour

  Published: October 19, 2007, 10:20 pm

  Tags: Video, Digitize, Encoding, Capture, Backup, Slate, Graphics, Flip4mac, Editing, Media

  I'm researching archiving solutions for my company's digital video library. We have all sorts of video media, from VHS to HD-DVD, BetaSP masters, Quicktime, Camtasia files, RealPlayer, Windows Media and everything in-between. How should we go about filing all of this media in the digital domain so we can access it, index it, search for it, find it

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• Theory of Relativity of Pixels

  Published: May 21, 2007, 11:24 am

  Tags: Pixel, Frame Rate, Encoding, Compression

  No matter what, my online video clips end up being huge files that take too long to download. But I need good quality. What does everyone else do?Re-opening the mailbag to play a little catch-up. Sorry for the delay.Data Rate is the key. Limit this to whatever you find reasonable. This usually ends up with compression in the ballpark of 1/100 the

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• Web2Ireland - what's going on - week ending June 6th

  Published: June 6, 2008, 8:26 pm

  Tags: Firefox, Events, Pixenate, Ilug, Exceptional, Iotc, Curry2 0, Firefox 3 Party, Downloadmusic, Software, Edenbee, Seanmcgrath, Error Message, Ubcam, Content Encoding Error

  IrelandGetting a Content Encoding Error message in Firefox?  CGarvey's BlogSee 0 more posts on this topic: Firefox 3, View Cannot, Unsupported Form, Simple Workaround, Form CompressionKeywords: firefox 3, firefox, 3, view cannot, unsupported form, simple workaround, form compression, firefox cache, error

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• Elementary, My Dear Video: Elemental Technologies Raises $7.1 Million, Goes After Media Conversion Market

  Published: July 17, 2008, 5:11 pm

  Tags: Boston Blog Main, National Blog Main, Seattle, Seattle Blog Main, Internet Video, Deals, Funding, Financing, Venture Capital, Digital Media, Video Conversion, Encoding, Elemental Technologies, General Catalyst, Voyager Capital

  internet video, VC, deals Gregory T. Huang wrote: Everyone knows that Internet video is taking off. With the popularity of YouTube, online TV shows, and other video sites, the market seems to be ready. But now there are plenty of new problems to be solved on the technology and business side, from content delivery and coding to search and

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