Mencoding Preservation Restoration Experts Group

We're rewriting the rules for how media gets made, restored, and remembered.

AI-powered engineering that moves at breakneck speed β€” turning what used to take teams of engineers into a single, relentless pipeline.

What we are

We are the hidden layer β€” the force multiplier no one sees.

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Video & image coding

Elite-level mastery of codecs, compression, and format engineering β€” pushed to the limit.

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Media tooling

Battle-tested pipelines and software that encode, restore, and ship media at massive scale.

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AI-built tooling

Cutting-edge AI, weaponized to build faster, smarter tools for media preservation and restoration.

10x

Faster restoration pipelines

24/7

Autonomous processing

0

Proprietary lock-in

Formats we refuse to give up on

How we work

01

Ingest

Pull in media from any source, any format, any condition.

02

Analyze

AI models scan for damage, artifacts, and format quirks.

03

Restore

Denoise, upscale, and repair β€” automatically, at scale.

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Ship

Deliver in open, future-proof formats built to last.

What we work with

AV1 H.265 / HEVC VP9 FFmpeg ONNX PyTorch JPEG XL FLAC Vulkan CUDA

Capabilities

01

Codec design and low-level compression engineering.

02

AI-driven upscaling, denoising, and artifact removal.

03

Automated archival pipelines for legacy media formats.

04

Frame-accurate restoration of damaged film and video.

05

Format conversion and transcoding at massive scale.

06

Custom tooling for studios, archives, and platforms.

FAQ

What kind of media do you work with?

Video, image, and film β€” from modern digital formats to legacy and damaged archival media.

Do you build proprietary tools?

No. Our tools are built on open, non-proprietary standards wherever possible.

How does AI fit into your process?

AI accelerates restoration and analysis, but every pipeline is engineered and reviewed by our team.

Can you work with our existing pipeline?

Yes β€” our tooling is designed to slot into existing studio and archival workflows.

Get in touch

Have a media problem worth solving? We want to hear about it.

Mission

AI as raw leverage β€” a small team wielding the power of an army of engineers.

Models that hunt down artifacts, obliterate noise, and upscale on the fly β€” baked into every pipeline we ship.

No hype, no vaporware β€” AI aimed squarely at the hardest problems in media, and nothing else.

AI is the engine. Sharp engineering judgment is the hand on the wheel.

Uncompromising engineering. Tools built to work β€” every time, at any scale.

Members

Samuel Leong

Founder

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Burnaby, BC

Colin Lee

Co-Founder

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Mississauga, ON

Joseph Lin

Co-Founder

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ San Diego, CA

Dr. Eric Jenner

Co-Founder

πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Sydney, NSW

Building the future of media doesn't wait. Neither do we.