What Is Encoding News Today

This article is part of Streaming Medias "What Is" series. Executive Summary Streaming media production starts with the infinite real world as captured by the lenses of our camcorders, and ends with the tightly compressed files necessary for streaming delivery. Along the way, the video is digitized, encoded, re-encoded, and frequently transcoded, with possible stops along the way for transrating,  transsizing, and transmuxing. These are terms we use every day, but few, if any, have precise de...