Experimental 4-channel and 5.1-channel audio transcoding is added in MediaCoder 0.6.0.3820. Please note that multi-channel transcoding only works with audio encoders that supports them. Currently following audio encoders in MediaCoder can support multi-channel.

• Nero Encoder
• FAAC
• Vorbis
• FLAC
• Waveform/PCM

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Some reported issues have been fixed for Flash Video Maker extension. This extension is used for easy creating Flash Video (.flv) files with MediaCoder.

Recently there’s been a fair amount of discussion about platforms for building “Rich Internet Applications.” Adobe’s Apollo demo and Microsoft’s Silverlight (WPF/E) effort generate significant attention. And Mozilla’s XUL offering is ever more widely used, in both relatively high profile projects like Joost and Songbird and in less well known but very interesting applications. Read the rest of this entry »

The SourceForge annual Community Choice Awards final voting has begun. MediaCoder has just become one of the finalists in the category of best multimedia project. Thanks for all of you who nominated it. Now, please cast a ballot for MediaCoder to make it win the award.

Steps to vote:

1. If you already have an account on SourceForge.net, you can skip this step, otherwise please take a little time to create an account on SF.net first.
2. After you got your account, login with it and go to the voting page.
3. MediaCoder is listed in the Best Project for Multimedia category (click the drop-down list and you will see it)
4. You can vote for projects you like in other categories. If you are not familiar with some categories or has no choice, you can choose “I do not wish to vote”.
5. Finally, click the “Submit all votes” button to submit your vote.

Thanks for your support. Hoping MediaCoder can win the award.

For those who do online gold trading (like me), I made a tiny gold price watcher extension for Firefox, which displays current gold price (and the change) and USD to RMB exchange rate (useful to me )

The data is retrieved from Kitco.com and Bank of China and is refreshed every 3 minutes. Single clicking the status bar area will refresh the data. Double clicking will display the chart.

Click here to install it. If you have problem installing it directly, please right click the link and download the xpi file and drag-n-drop the file into your Firefox to get it installed.