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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We are pleased to anounce the release of MediaCoder 0.7.2. In the new version, there are improvements and new features just like before. Here is a brief description of the changes:

• AviSynth is better supported. MediaCoder will now generate more exhaustive AVS script, to apply necessary video and audio filtering. Additional script lines can be applied by means of script template (a script with specific variables substitute, a more detailed document will be published later)
• MediaCoder will choose AviSynth as video source to decode in higher priority when there is necessary splitters and decoders installed in the system.
• Automatically loading AviSynth plugins when available
• Ability to use AviSynth in MediaCoder x64 version
• Supporting various subtitles by means of AviSynth’s TextSub and VobSub
• CUDA H.264 encoder updated
• Sync x264 options with the latest x264 build
• Some minor bugs fixed

The new version can be downloaded from our download page.

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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We are pleased to announce the release of the new version of MediaCoder 0.7.1. In this version, we start to make use of NVIDIA CUDA technology to accelerate H.264 encoding and video filtering.

A new encoder backend of “CUDA encoder” is added which can be chosen active on the Video tab.

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MediaCoder is improving all the time even if the version number keep the same. This time there are some major changes, so let’s increase the number after nearly 10 months. I’ve spent lots of time to prepare the release of 0.7. Let me briefly recall what has been changed. Read the rest of this entry »

MediaCoder does not collect or submit any user information, even anonymously. The following statistic data is estimated from the percentage of visitors (data provided by 3rd party Google Analytics and Easy Counter) to the MediaCoder Full Pack download page at http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/dlfull.htm. This indirectly reflects the current geographic distribution of users (assuming that most people don’t just visit the download page for fun).

Distribution by contintent:

Eastern Asia 24.0%
Northern America 18.8%
Western Europe 16.2%
Eastern Europe 12.1%
Southern Europe 10.1%
Northern Europe 6.3%
South America 5.9%
South-Eastern Asia 3.4%
Oceania 2.1%
Central America 1.1%

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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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