July 9th, 2009

Serious statements from the author of MediaCoder

Recently (actually since I posted an article introducing MediaCoder’s new CUDA support on the doom9 forum), a group of people, mainly those developing software similar to MediaCoder, began to pick holes in MediaCoder. Some of the same people, requested that the FFmepg group put MediaCoder on the FFmpeg shame list, accusing MediaCoder of abusing and modifying FFmpeg without publishing the patch. They also insinuated that MediaCoder contains virus and malwares, as well as tampering with the MediaCoder description on Wikipedia and changing the description as adware. I am very angry and shame on them. I hereby make the following statements:
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July 3rd, 2009

Benchmarks: CUDA H.264 vs x264

Hardware platform:

  • CPU: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 (2.4Ghz/4 cores)
  • GPU: nVidia GTX 275 (896M/448bit/240 SP)
  • Memory: 4GB

Software platform:

  • OS: Windows XP x64
  • Transcoder: MediaCoder 0.7.1.4475
  • x264 command line options:  –no-psnr –no-ssim –keyint 250 –min-keyint 25 –me hex –merange 16    –non-deterministic –aq-mode 1 –aq-strength 1.0 –b-adapt 1 –ref 1 –subme 6 –psy-rd 1:0 –bframes 3  –trellis 1 –weightb –direct auto –bitrate $(VideoBitrate) –qcomp 0.6  -o “$(DestFile)”

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