In addition to the iPhone 4 support, this new version also supports parallelized transcoding as well as all the other new features and fix-ups in the MediaCoder 0.7.5.

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Finally we can have multiple files processed simultaneously in MediaCoder with the new job-level parallelization support. Those who have a processor with 8 or 16 cores can now unleash the power of their processor. As MediaCoder is not just a simple GUI front-end which only invokes a command line encoder wait sits there waiting for the encoder to complete, instead it distribute frame data and the audio samples from decoders to encoders, the job-level parallelization is not that easy to add from the old design. In order to add this feature, large amount of the code has been rewritten. Finally it works after several weeks’ efforts, though it might still be experimental for a while. The number of the maximum parallelized jobs is limited to 4 at the moment. So feedbacks welcomed!

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MediaCoder NT CUDA Edition is a free H.264 transcoder dedicated for mobile devices accelerated by CUDA technology.

Features

• nVidia CUDA technology accelerated H.264 encoding
• Supporting parallelized transcoding tasks
• Decoding most popular video formats
• Encoding for iPhone, iPod, iPad, PSP, Mobile Phones and more soon
• User friendly interface
• Watch-folder feature for automated transcoding
• Totally free of charge

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Quoted from the blog of an x264 developer:

For many years it has been possible to make your own DVDs with free software tools. Over the course of the past decade, DVD creation evolved from the exclusive domain of the media publishing companies to something basically anyone could do on their home computer.

But Blu-ray has yet to get that treatment. Despite the “format war” between Blu-ray and HD DVD ending over two years ago, free software has lagged behind. “Professional” tools for Blu-ray video encoding can cost as much as $100,000 and are often utter garbage. Here are two actual screenshots from real Blu-rays: I wish I was making this up.

But today, things change. Today we take the first step towards a free software Blu-ray creation toolkit.
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Since MediaCoder 0.7.3, multi-threaded version of MPlayer and MEncoder are included in the full pack  distribution (in the past only included in optimization packs). However, as the MT version of MPlayer/MEncoder is still experimental, its inclusion brings some problems with MediaCoder. Decoding of Some H.264 files (mainly MKV) is blocked sometimes. If you encounter this issue, a workaround is to disabling multi-threaded decoding. You can do this by clicking Source button on Video tab. A pop up dialog should display the options of MEncoder and clicking “Decoding threads” and put a value of 1 (meaning single thread) in the blank at the bottom of the dialog.

The Chinese new year of tiger has just arrived. Happy new year to all the fellow Chinese all around the world. On this very first moment in the Chinese new year, and rare to see, the valentines day on the same day, MediaCoder 0.7.3 is released. The splash screen was modified a bit with a pattern of tiger in paper-cut art on it. Comparing to the formal 0.7.2.4582, lots of changes have been made. Give it a shot and don’t forget to give us your feedbacks.

From this day, you will not be able to find MediaCoder on SourceForge.net. Through the years, MediaCoder was hosted on SF.net as an open-source project and through the years I was the only active maintainer of the project and have been spending time and efforts providing the community with the best free media transcoder. Many people praise for the work that I’ve done and many support me by making a donation. The only thing I’ve never got is a significative help on the development. Meanwhile, I was receiving some requests for explaining or modifying the code from some people who are quite likely working for some enterprises although they usually claimed they just wanted to “study” the code. When I made a decision that I no longer commit my new code to SF.net, it seems many people are infuriated. They spread words here and there about some disputable and untruthful facts. Under the pressure, I was opening the part of the source code of MediaCoder on SF.net again. But these people are still not satisfied as not getting every line of the source code and keep snitching. I kept contact with the senior manager of SF.net and I can see he was kept annoyed by those paranoias. Now the disturbance can come to an end by the removal from SF.net. I can once again concentrate on the development of MediaCoder without spending time and efforts to please those people.

Here I reaffirm, MediaCoder is and will always be a freeware and I have no plan to turn it into a commercial software in any time.

Also the formal web site of mediacoder.sourceforge.net no longer exists. The official web site of MediaCoder is www.mediacoderhq.com.

MediaCoder x64 version full installer is released. Now it’s no longer necessary to upgrade a 32-bit installation to 64-bit with the MediaCoder x64 updater. In the x64 version, besides MediaCoder itself is a native 64-bit application, the following components are in native 64-bit form:

• x264
• CUDA H.264 encoder
• xvidcore
• Theora encoder
• Windows Media encoder CLI
• JM H.264 decoder
• LAME
• OggEnc
• MusePack
• WavPack
• Monkey’s Audio
• SDL

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