Category Archive: Release Notes

MediaCoder now with native 10-bit pixel depth support (Stanley posted on October 14th, 2016 )

MediaCoder 0.8.47 comes with native 10-bit pixel depth support.  3 color space options were added:

  • I420 10-bit,
  • I422 10-bit
  • I444 10-bit

Formerly in MediaCoder, 10bpp video content are down scaled to 8bpp for processing. The native 10-bit pixel depth support is ideal for transcoding 10bpp content to 10bpp output. Currently only x264 and NVENC support 10bpp input. When encoding 10bpp H.264, make sure to choose correct profile on x264 tab.

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MediaCoder updated with NVENC 7.0 and Intel MSDK 2016 (Stanley posted on September 24th, 2016 )

MediaCoder 0.8.46 is released, with support for NVENC 7.0 and Intel MSDK 2016. Try some ultrafast H.264 and HEVC encoding with your cutting-edge GPU! Make sure to update your graphic driver to latest.

MediaCoder 0.8.43 is released (Stanley posted on April 23rd, 2016 )

MediaCoder 0.8.43 is released with improvements on AviSynth decoding and MXF support as well as new revisions of x264 and x265.

Download latest release here.

MediaCoder 0.8.41 released with NVENC 6.0 (Stanley posted on January 10th, 2016 )

MediaCoder 0.8.41 is released with NVENC 6.0. Two-pass encoding can be used with NVENC in MediaCoder now. Simply set video encoder to NVENC and rate mode to Two-Pass and you are ready to go. In advanced settings, you can find new option for 3 types of NVENC’s two-pass mode.

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What’s New in NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 6.0

NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 6.0 adds following new features.

  • Unified SDK for video encoding and decoding
  • Windows 10 official support
  • Support for H.264 Motion Estimation only mode
  • Support for input surfaces in RGB format
  • Support for SEI and VUI fields for H.265
  • Support for Adaptive Quantization for improved subjective visual quality with H.265 (adaptive quantization for H.264 is already supported)
  • GPUs supported for H.265 (HEVC) encoding
    • GeForce GTX 960, GTX 980. GTX Titan X
    • Quadro M4000, M5000, M6000
    • Tesla M4, M6, M60
  • Various quality and performance improvements in encoding
  • SDK samples no longer require the CUDA toolkit installed in order to build.

MediaCoder 0.8.37 released with NVENC HEVC encoding bitrate control issue fixed (Stanley posted on August 31st, 2015 )

MediaCoder 0.8.37 is released. In this release, the NVENC encoding bitrate control issue in ABR and CQP rate mode, which has been reported by many users who use NVENC to encode H.265/HEVC, is finally fixed. Other updates include upgrade of x264 and x265. MPlayer and MEncoder for x64 have also been updated to latest SVN revision. From this release, MediaCoder is built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015.

MediaCoder 0.8.32 released with multiple-pass H.265 encoding (Stanley posted on September 19th, 2014 )

In this release, 2-pass and 3-pass H.265 encoding have been added, and not many changes besides some routine update of codecs and minor bug fix. Anyway I know many people are demanding for the multiple-pass H.265 encoding. 😉

As always, head for the download page for the latest version.