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3 steps to convert YouTube video to any format directly with MediaCoder (Stanley posted on March 6th, 2008 )

Before we start, there are several things you need to make sure.

  1. You have installed/upgrade to MediaCoder 0.6.1.4110 or later
  2. You know how to set-up all the parameters of MediaCoder. At least you know how to convert a video file on your HDD to your desired format with MediaCoder. If not, please leave all the settings default (to make sure choose Revert All Settings in File menu).
  3. You have a reasonably fast Internet connection if you want a good conversion speed, because the streaming and conversion/transcoding are done simultaneity (the flv file is not downloaded to your HDD), the bottleneck of the performance is usually the network speed.

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MediaCoder XML-RPC API (Stanley posted on February 24th, 2008 )

Since 0.6.1.4060, MediaCoder comes with XML-RPC APIs through which MediaCoder can be controlled by any XML-RPC client both locally and remotely. The APIs are not yet finalized, here lists some of them and you can see their effects right now.
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Top ten things to do with your now-defunct HD DVD player (Stanley posted on February 20th, 2008 )

Finally, HD DVD users now have the empirical evidence they’ve been looking for to prove that the universe really is conspiring against them. We figured we’d make ourselves useful over here and give you a list of things you can do with your poor, obsolete HD DVD player — starting with taking it out to dinner, excusing yourself to the bathroom before the check comes… then getting the hell out of there.

Gimmes

  • eBay
  • Doorstop
  • Entertainment center cup-holder
  • Destroy it. Office Space style.

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A Beginners Guide to High Definition Video (Stanley posted on February 18th, 2008 )

The HD Specification
So what is HD? Hi-definition video is more than just a name to indicate an image has higher resolution than previous video forms, rather HD is a specific technical specification that all major hardware manufacturers and software developers have agreed upon for the future of film, TV, video and broadcasting.

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Benchmark for VMWare and VirtualBox on x64 with MediaCoder (Stanley posted on February 1st, 2008 )

As I’ve been working on Windows XP x64, I am always interested to know how much difference of performance will VMWare and VirtualBox have on a 64-bit host system. VirtualBox has a native x64 version, but I haven’t yet found a native x64 version of VMWare. I guess this factor is likely to help VirtualBox to catch up with VMWare on x64 platform. Today I performed a benchmark for the two virtual machine applications by running MediaCoder in the guest system to transcode an DVD MPEG-2 PS clip of 720×480@29.97fps to an H.264 MP4 file of 320×240@29.97fps with MP3 audio. As there is no multi-processor support for VirtualBox and there is no sense to compare the video transcoding speed of a dual-core guest machine with a single-core one, I just chose Windows 2000 as the OS for guest machine.

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Definition of Levels for MPEG-4 Video Profiles (Stanley posted on November 20th, 2007 )

Table A.1 describes the MPEG-4 Visual levels for the Version 1 and Version 2 profiles only including natural visual (or video) data, this means the so-called MPEG-4 video profiles. Note that Level 0 for the Simple profile has been defined in the 2nd Extension to the 2nd Edition of the MPEG-4 Visual standard.

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