How to Deploy GPAC for FFmpeg Packaging and ABR Distribution
18 Mar 2024
As much as we love FFmpeg for transcoding operations, it can get frustrating when packaging your content for ABR delivery. By packaging, I mean formatting and segmenting your media files, creating manifest files for HLS and DASH, formatting for CMAF, and managing multiple audio and subtitle streams. Fortunately, there are easier-to-use solutions that are equally open source and equally free. In this article, I'll focus on GPAC, which is a great packaging alternative.
Encoding 2020: Experts Predict the Future of Video Encoding
28 Sep 2015
A Streaming Media survey shows big changes afoot in the next five years, with a move to the cloud, away from Flash, and towards 4K and HEVC.