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Time goes so fast and 6 years have passed since I started to develop MediaCoder. I keep improving and adding new features to the software through the years and it's still an important part of my life, though I adopted new interests all the time. I have new ideas about MediaCoder from time to time and I can kick off to implement them as soon as I feel the ideas will work. It's always a great enjoyment of me to see my ideas coming into something that works and especially being useful and getting feedbacks from users. That's what encourage and support me to stick on the job so long.
I started learning programming at the age of 9 in year 1990. I felt really interesting to use the LOGO language to draw something on an Apple-II. That's also my first impression of computer graphics in some way. Not after so long, I got my first computer, a PC with a Intel 8088 processor, 640KB memory and two 360KB diskette drives. I started to program in BASIC on it. With the rise of computer multimedia around year 1995, I was attracted by computer audio and video technologies. Though at that time, as a middle school student, I was not able to make outstanding masterpiece like XING player and encoder, the first audio and video software that impressed me so much, I was so fond of playing with them to see different results of audio and video contents encoded and played back on my computer. What I have developed at that time was a piece of software on Windows 3.1 that plays a list of audio files and video clips in a way I like.
I graduated from Tongji University in 2004, where I spent 1 and a half years developing and maintaining a micro-controller emulator project. In 2005, when I was working in Eastman Kodak (which bankrupted now), I was having enough free time to develop my first transcoder software. I first named it MENC as it was an audio transcoder at the first time which used MPlayer to decode audio from both audio and video files and encode the PCM into several audio formats. Soon I found it becomes popular and used by many people after making it able to transcode into HE-AAC. Later I added video transcoding feature into it and re-named it MediaCoder. In late 2006, after I could be supported by user donations and revenue from website ads, I made a decision to quit from my job and started to maintain MediaCoder full-time.