One of the significant improvements in MediaCoder 2011 RC is that Intel Media SDK Encoder is first time added to MediaCoder as an alternative accelerated H.264 encoder in addition to previous nVidia CUDA encoder. Intel’s encoder is hardware accelerated on Intel G45 and later platforms. It encodes H.264 as well as MPEG-2 off-loaded to GPU. Benchmarks are welcomed for encoding with Intel’s encoder working in MediaCoder. For more changes, please refer to the changelog.
MediaCoder Dropbox is a simplistic user interface of MediaCoder which can be used to convert media files for a specific purpose so easily and conveniently. The appearance and transcoding parameters of a MediaCoder dropbox are defined by an XML file which can be on local disk, on remote server or embedded in any web pages. With this mechansim, users can create, publish and share their specific transcoder. Using MediaCoder dropbox is even easier. Simply load a dropbox whether local or remote, and drop media files into it and you can start transcoding.
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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.
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.
The next release to be versioned as MediaCoder 2011 will hopefully be released before the Chinese new year (early Feb). So stay tuned!
这两个月一直在忙于MediaCoder 2011的开发。新版本会包含很多新特性，在这先透露一些：
如果进展顺利，MediaCoder 2011会在农历新年前发布，请大家保持关注。
Recently x264 has added 10-bit depth encoding and MediaCoder is keeping up with this new feature. In latest build 4777, new options of x264 have been added, including the High10 profile and 10-bit encoding. With 10-bit depth, video quality can be better at the same bitrate than encoding with common 8-bit depth. However, not all players/decoders support 10-bit depth. As far as I know, VLC can handle 10-bit depth.
Besides, MediaCoder is able to feed frames to encoders in color space of I422, YUY2 and RGB as well as common I420/YV12.最新版本的MediaCoder增加了10位色深的H.264编码，相比8传统的8位色深编码，10位色深编码可以在相同码率下带来更好的画质，不过目前只有少数几种播放器支持，VLC是其中之一。
MediaCoder build 4755 has added two audio volume related features:
Calculated ReplayGain value