Video Encoding

The free and open source HandBrake transcoding utility gains AV1 encoding support in its 1.6.0 update. Users with Intel QSV or Arc hardware can benefit from HW accelerated encoding.

Intel's SVT-AV1 encoder/decoder library features enhanced AVX2 support, improved image quality.

Last month, the HEVC/H.265 standard was officially published. We recently got our hands on a pre-alpha build of x265, an HEVC encoder project from a company called MulticoreWare that's going to be licensed in much the same way as the famed x264 library.

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