XDA Developers on MSN

Hardware transcoding matters less than you think if you pick the right clients

So long as you choose the right client for the job, your NAS can simply send the file over to the TV, tablet, or streaming ...
PC World

Microsoft tests new PowerToys app that can pull audio from video files

Microsoft’s powerhouse collection of useful Windows utilities, PowerToys, is adding the ability to strip out an audio track from a video file, plus the more general ability to transcode video files as ...
XDA Developers on MSN

Stop buying Raspberry Pis for Plex/Jellyfin — get a used office PC instead

Take the Raspberry Pi family, for instance. While you could deploy Plex or Jellyfin on most Single-Board Computers in the RPi ...
Liliputing

Media transcoding is coming to the Microsoft PowerToys Advanced Paste tool (transcode audio and video from a copy/paste context menu)

Microsoft PowerToys is a free application that brings a bunch of advanced features to Windows for power users. Some of those tools give you more control over your mouse and keyboard settings. Others ...
Ars Technica

Transcoding video for max battery life

I will be traveling soon which will involve a 10 hour flight. I will want to watch movies and TV shows from my 13" mbp (built in battery, 9400m GPU). How should I encode/transcode the files to ensure ...