January 26th, 2011

MediaCoder 2011 RC1 is released!

After one month’s continuous efforts, I am pleased to announce the release of MediaCoder 2011 RC1. Although this is not yet the final release version of MediaCoder 2011, it has most of the new features and improvements of the new version as well as a new look.

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January 17th, 2011

MediaCoder 2011 is almost ready

There is few news on this blog in recent months. But it does not mean that I am not working. After finishing my wedding in December 2010, I have kept working on the next major release of MediaCoder. There are several new exciting features I must mention here before the release.

  • MediaCoder Dropbox (the new user customizable simplistic UI)
  • Stereoscopic 3D video encoding
  • Batch image conversion (supporting major image formats as well as MPO the 3D image format)
  • Decoding video into image sequence
  • Encoding image squence to video with effects
  • Folder watcher feature
  • Features for fully automated transcoding
  • Improved automatic thumbnail generation
  • Image overlay and improved de-logo
  • VP8 encoding support
  • Viewing live video and statistics of transcoding remotely via web browser (when transcoding from webcam, MediaCoder can be a cam server)

The next release to be versioned as MediaCoder 2011 will hopefully be released before the Chinese new year (early Feb). So stay tuned!

July 31st, 2010

Latest MediaCoder iPod/iPhone/iPad Edition 0.7.5 released with iPhone 4 support

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.

Get it now!

July 7th, 2010

MediaCoder 0.7.5 released with parallelized transcoding support

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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July 7th, 2010

MediaCoder NT CUDA Edition released

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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April 26th, 2010

Breaking news: x264 officially supports Blu-ray encoding

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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