Category Archive: News & Updates

MediaCoder now runs more flawlessly under Wine/Linux (Stanley posted on August 24th, 2008 )

Wine is an open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix/Linux. MediaCoder, as a native Windows application, was able to run under Wine in many cases. Before a native Linux version of the software is developed, the Wine compatibility is improved in build 4180. Now MediaCoder can run more flawlessly on Linux platform. It is no longer necessary to install a Windows version of Firefox under Wine as MediaCoder will look for native Linux Firefox in the Linux system and invoke it to display the XUL-based user interfaces when needed.

The test environment is Gentoo Linux / Xorg / XFCE4 / Wine 1.1. There are known issues under Darwine / Mac OS which might be fixed later. If you still encounter problems under Wine, please report.

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Dirac video encoding is working again. (Stanley posted on July 17th, 2008 )

Dirac video encoding has been fixed in 0.6.1.4140. In the past, Dirac encoding was done by calling Dirac encoder DLL. Now it is done by FFmpeg, which allows the encoded bitstream to be muxed into a container format together with audio stream. Dirac decoding and playback is also supported by building Schrodinger into MPlayer and MEncoder.

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MediaCoder now supports JM H.264 decoder and encoder (Stanley posted on July 14th, 2008 )

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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Vote for MediaCoder in SF.net community choice awards competition (Stanley posted on July 10th, 2008 )

MediaCoder has successfully become one of the finalist projects of the SourceForge community choice awards, as it was last year. Now the final vote has begun. Please cast your bullet.

Steps to vote:

  1. If you already have an account on SourceForge.net, you can skip this step, otherwise you’ll need to create an account on SF.net first.
  2. After logging in with your account, click the VOTE NOW button on the SF.net project page.
  3. Follow the instructions on the voting page. MediaCoder is in the category of Best Project for Multimedia.

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Nominate MediaCoder for SourceForge community choice awards 2008 (Stanley posted on May 31st, 2008 )

The SourceForge.net annual Community Choice Awards are waiting for your choice again. If you like MediaCoder, please cast a ballot to nominate it. Last year MediaCoder has entered the final round which was already a recognition.

Steps to do the nomination:

  1. If you already have an account on SourceForge.net, you can skip this step, otherwise you’ll need to create an account on SF.net first.
  2. After logging in with your account, go to the nomination page.
  3. Choose a category that you think is best fit for MediaCoder.

Update: MediaCoder has become a finalist and the final vote has begun.

Introduction of MediaCoder’s built-in media streaming server (Stanley posted on March 29th, 2008 )

Recently MediaCoder has been equipped with a built-in media server, which is able to stream out media files with real-time transcoding.

What is this feature be used for? There lots of applications for a streaming server, especially one with capability to transcode while streaming. Here I list some typical applications:

  • Watch video and listen to music from another PC or any capable device, through LAN/WLAN/Internet etc.
  • With real-time transcoding, we can even play all kinds of contents on a less-capable networked device, e.g. PDA and mobile phone, regardless of the audio/video format of the original content and without having to convert its format.
  • Preview encoding effects without performing a complete file-to-file transcoding.

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