MediaCoder has a built-in media server which is capable of performing on-the-fly transcoding while doing streaming. The latest MediaCoder Audio Edition (build 4150) has improved the audio streaming feature. You can now use MediaCoder as an audio streaming server with powerful transcoding capablity (e.g. FLAC to AAC+) and play the streaming audio with your favorite audio player like Winamp, foobar, WMP etc.

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Dirac video encoding has been fixed in 0.6.1.4140. In the past, Dirac encoding was done by calling Dirac encoder DLL. Now it is done by FFmpeg, which allows the encoded bitstream to be muxed into a container format together with audio stream. Dirac decoding and playback is also supported by building Schrodinger into MPlayer and MEncoder.

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Since 0.6.1.4135, MediaCoder has integrated the support for JM H.264 decoder and encoder. JM H.264 decoder is able to decode the H.264 streams generated by many HD camcorders correctly which other open-source H.264 decoders cannot. JM H.264 encoder is one of the three major open-source H.264 encoder implementations. It has very rich parameters and support most features of H.264. Some frequently used parameters have been added into MediaCoder while the rest of thundreds of paramters can be adjusted by loading a JM configuration file (by specifying the configuration file path at “Configuration File” option). A JM configuration file is a plain text file.

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MediaCoder has successfully become one of the finalist projects of the SourceForge community choice awards, as it was last year. Now the final vote has begun. Please cast your bullet.

Steps to vote:

1. If you already have an account on SourceForge.net, you can skip this step, otherwise you’ll need to create an account on SF.net first.
2. After logging in with your account, click the VOTE NOW button on the SF.net project page.
3. Follow the instructions on the voting page. MediaCoder is in the category of Best Project for Multimedia.

MediaCoder 0.6.1.4130 has be added with AVCHD support. AVCHD is the format used by most HD camcorder, like Sony HD camcorder. With following settings, MediaCoder can decode AVCHD correctly and encode to any supported target formats.
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