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	<title>Inside &#38; Outside MediaCoder</title>
	<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com</link>
	<description>Find out more about the universal media transcoder</description>
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		<title>Decoding blocking issue caused by newly included MPlayer/MEncoder MT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/decoding-issue-mplayer-mt/</link>
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		<title>Low Cost 3D Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A low cost apparatus for capturing stereoscopic video is described and footage from the apparatus is presented in anaglyph form.

 
A piece of L-shaped extruded aluminum was cut to length and drilled. Cameras are attached with 1/4-20 panhead machine screws, 1/4&#8243; nylon washers, and 1/4-20 wingnuts. The apparatus is attached to a quick release shoe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/low-cost-3d-video/</link>
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		<title>Happy Chinese New Year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/happy-chinese-new-year/</link>
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		<title>About the new aspect ratio option in MediaCoder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
As you might have noticed, the aspect ratio option has been changed. The new option has 4 choices as shown above. Here I explain the feature of each option.

1. Keep DAR
This will keep the original DAR (display aspect ratio) for the output file. In this case, changing the resolution won&#8217;t affect the display aspect ratio.
2. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/mediacoder-new-aspect-ratio-option/</link>
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		<title>MediaCoder is no longer hosted on SourceForge.net from this day on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/mediacoder-is-no-longer-hosted-on-sourceforge-net/</link>
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		<title>Now it&#8217;s easy to set processor affinity for decoder and encoder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the build 4560, you can easily set processor affinity for audio/video decoder and encoder. By clicking the check boxes which represent each core of your processor. If you have a quad-core processor, you will se 4 check boxes enabled and selected by default. Unticking a checkbox will cause a core not to be used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/now-its-easy-to-set-processor-affinity-for-decoder-and-encoder/</link>
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		<title>Downloading and Saving a High Quality YouTube video using Firefox 3.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 

Introduction
A lot of people want to save YouTube videos, but either find the process frustrating or wind up saving poor quality versions. This will explain two steps to get the best quality and save it to your computer.
Step 1:  Changing the standard FLV version to MP4
YouTube for some time has been converting most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/downloading-and-saving-a-high-quality-youtube-video-using-firefox-3-5/</link>
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		<title>Technology preview: the next-generation transcoding software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The next-generation, all-in-one transcoding software is now being actively worked on, side-by-side with the development of MediaCoder. Here I disclose some interesting features of this brand new software, will possibly named, Transmedia for personal use and Transerver for organization/enterprise use.
Transmedia

Easy-to-use and efficient media transcoding
UI/core separated design
Pipelined task processing
Segmented transcoding
GPU accelerated encoding
User-participating mobile device support for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/technology-preview-the-next-generation-all-in-one-transcoding-software/</link>
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		<title>Ask Engadget HD: What&#8217;s the best wireless rear speaker option?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
No sooner do we ask about just how many readers actually give a hoot about multi-channel audio, in comes this. Considering the plethora of folks in the exact same situation, we knew right away it&#8217;d made a beautiful Ask Engadget HD question. Without further adieu:
&#8220;I recently splurged on a hot new plasma, but now I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/ask-engadget-hd-whats-the-best-wireless-rear-speaker-option/</link>
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		<title>MediaCoder x64 version full installer released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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

The following components [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/mediacoder-x64-version-full-installer-released/</link>
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		<title>MediaCoder 0.7.2 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/mediacoder-0-7-2-released/</link>
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		<title>Serious statements from the author of MediaCoder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/mediacoder-serious-statements/</link>
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		<title>Benchmarks: CUDA H.264 vs x264</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hardware platform:

CPU: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 (2.4Ghz/4 cores)
GPU: nVidia GTX 275 (896M/448bit/240 SP)
Memory: 4GB

Software platform:

OS: Windows XP x64
Transcoder: MediaCoder 0.7.1.4475
x264 command line options:  &#8211;no-psnr &#8211;no-ssim &#8211;keyint 250 &#8211;min-keyint 25 &#8211;me hex &#8211;merange 16    &#8211;non-deterministic &#8211;aq-mode 1 &#8211;aq-strength 1.0 &#8211;b-adapt 1 &#8211;ref 1 &#8211;subme 6 &#8211;psy-rd 1:0 &#8211;bframes 3  &#8211;trellis 1 &#8211;weightb &#8211;direct auto &#8211;bitrate $(VideoBitrate) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/benchmarks-cuda-h-264-vs-x264/</link>
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		<title>MediaCoder 0.7.1.4460 Changelog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 [update] MediaCoder build 4450

 [fix] Xvid encoding performance issue on multi-core processors
 [update] improve overall transcoding performance for multi-core processors


 [update] x264 r1165
 [update] MPlayer/MEncoder r29319
 [update] FFmpeg r19159
 [update] MediaInfo 0.7.17
 [add] xvidcore x64 build (in x64 update)

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		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/mediacoder-0-7-1-4460-changelog/</link>
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		<title>CUDA H.264 transcoding test report in MediaCoder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NVIDIA&#8217;s cutting-edge CUDA tech is cool, and it&#8217;s been talking about throughout the internet. Also it&#8217;s attractive to us, we started cuda working from the start of the year. After a period of hard working, we finally successfully integrated it into MediaCoder, it&#8217;s very awsome. We can&#8217;t wait to annouce it and publish the test [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/cuda-h264-transcoding-test/</link>
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		<title>MediaCoder 0.7.1 released &#8211; first free transcoder accelerated with NVIDIA CUDA technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;CUDA encoder&#8221; is added which can be chosen active on the Video tab.

You can also choose to use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/mediacoder-cuda-accelerated/</link>
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		<title>MediaCoder 0.7.1.4430 Changelog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 [update] MediaCoder build 4430

 [add] CUDA accelerated H.264 encoder
 [add] CUDA accelerated frame scale filter
 [add] video buffer memory utilization control option
 [fix] aspect ratio issue
 [fix] misc bugfixes


 [add] CUDA H.264 encoder
 [add] CUDA video filter (only down-scaling implemented at the moment)
 [update] x264 r1163
 [update] MediaInfo 0.7.16

]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/mediacoder-0-7-1-4430-changelog/</link>
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		<title>MediaCoder 0.7.0-rc released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MediaCoder is improving all the time even if the version number keep the same. This time there are some major changes, so let&#8217;s increase the number after nearly 10 months. I&#8217;ve spent lots of time to prepare the release of 0.7. Let me briefly recall what has been changed.

 New toolbar with new icons and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/mediacoder-070-rc-released/</link>
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		<title>MediaCoder 0.6.2.4275 Changelog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
[update] MediaCoder build 4275

[fix] Windows Vista UAC compatibility issue
[fix] VobSub (.sub/.idx) subtitle loading issue
[fix] crop button on extension dialog not working issue


[update] MediaCoder CLI 1.2.4275
[update] x264 r1113

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		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/mediacoder-0624275-changelog/</link>
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		<title>Presets:  A way to save your conversion settings !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MediaCoder Presets
What is a preset? 
A preset is a copy of your MediaCoder settings for a conversion. They can be saved by clicking &#8220;File&#8221; and then selecting &#8220;Save As Preset&#8221;, give the preset a name, and then select a place to save it (destination/path, drive, folder).   A saved preset can then be loaded into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/presets-a-way-to-save-your-conversion-settings/</link>
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