It’s not everyday a vendor can argue it performs better than Netflix’s in-house technology. These are the bragging rights of Cupertino-headquartered VisualOn, relating to Content Adaptive Encoding (CAE), claiming to perform today better than the streaming giant did at the inception of CAE – while performing better than many similar products on the market today. In a recently released whitepaper co-authored by VisualOn and Intel, VisualOn’s Optimizer presents a lower average bitrate compared to other CAE tools for AVC, HEVC, and AV1 encodes, while presenting a higher perceptual quality, as shown in the below graphs. This was tested on Intel Xeon scalable processors, and Intel’s Quick Sync Video hardware transcoder, running on its Data Center GPU Flex Series. VisualOn conducted…