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。
Verbatim, whose business is memory (and whose name means “to reproduce word for word,” by the way) has done a Rick Moranis job on its MediaShare NAS, resulting in the MediaShare Mini. One third the size of its predecessor, this guy retains its slight stature by going the Iomega iConnect route of eschewing on-board storage altogether for four USB ports (so it looks like you’ll have to factor the four thumb drives into the purchase price). And like the full-size MediaShare NAS server, this bad boy supports remote access via HTTP, support for a number of handhelds (including the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, BlackBerry, Android, and Palm Pre), Facebook integration, DLNA-compliant media streaming, and more. Look for it now for an MSRP of $90. Read the rest of this entry >>
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
The highest-quality method to encode and deliver a 3D video program is to store and deliver it as a dual-stream synchronized video program, with one full-quality video stream for each eye. This is how Blu-ray 3D works, storing the video for each eye as a full “Blu-ray quality” video program.
The HDMI 1.4 specification provides for 3D stereoscopic video to be delivered in several different ways, including over/under-formatted frames that are 1920 pixels wide and 2205 pixels high. The frame for the left eye and right eye are delivered together, to assure that synchronization is always maintained, even if the signal is momentarily lost and then restored.
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