Live Streaming Hardware Encoder Primer: Epiphan
By Adam Noyes
A hardware encoder is a dedicated appliance which captures, compresses, and converts audio-visual data into a format suitable for streaming and/or recording. Since we often get questions about live streaming encoding in particular, for the purposes of this article we will be talking mostly about hardware encoders for live streaming. Essentially, video streaming encoder hardware are boxes designed especially for making video go live on the internet.
