Monthly Archives: March 2008

Introduction of MediaCoder’s built-in media streaming server (Stanley posted on March 29th, 2008 )

Recently MediaCoder has been equipped with a built-in media server, which is able to stream out media files with real-time transcoding.

What is this feature be used for? There lots of applications for a streaming server, especially one with capability to transcode while streaming. Here I list some typical applications:

  • Watch video and listen to music from another PC or any capable device, through LAN/WLAN/Internet etc.
  • With real-time transcoding, we can even play all kinds of contents on a less-capable networked device, e.g. PDA and mobile phone, regardless of the audio/video format of the original content and without having to convert its format.
  • Preview encoding effects without performing a complete file-to-file transcoding.

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MiniUPnP Project (Stanley posted on March 11th, 2008 )

Today I saw an open-source UPnP client/server project called MiniUPnP, which looks quite interesting. I like those light-weight stuff, just like my MiniWeb project. 😉

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Some video tutorials of MediaCoder on YouTube (Stanley posted on March 11th, 2008 )

I found these tutorials on YouTube by a random search. Some seems weel-done and useful. Thanks to the makers of these videos.

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MediaCoder Tutorial

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Adding RSS feed entries just like adding a folder (Stanley posted on March 11th, 2008 )

Since build 4075, MediaCoder is able to load a RSS feed and queue up all its entries, just like adding a disk folder. For example, we can easily find a RSS feed button on YouTube like this:

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3 steps to convert YouTube video to any format directly with MediaCoder (Stanley posted on March 6th, 2008 )

Before we start, there are several things you need to make sure.

  1. You have installed/upgrade to MediaCoder 0.6.1.4110 or later
  2. You know how to set-up all the parameters of MediaCoder. At least you know how to convert a video file on your HDD to your desired format with MediaCoder. If not, please leave all the settings default (to make sure choose Revert All Settings in File menu).
  3. You have a reasonably fast Internet connection if you want a good conversion speed, because the streaming and conversion/transcoding are done simultaneity (the flv file is not downloaded to your HDD), the bottleneck of the performance is usually the network speed.

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x264 profile option added in MediaCoder build 4065 (Stanley posted on March 5th, 2008 )

The x264 profile option changes to the encoder settings to let the encoded bit stream comforted to specified H.264 profile (baseline, main, high).

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