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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How to convert AVCHD with MediaCoder (Stanley posted on July 3rd, 2008 )

MediaCoder 0.6.1.4130 has be added with AVCHD support. AVCHD is the format used by most HD camcorder, like Sony HD camcorder. With following settings, MediaCoder can decode AVCHD correctly and encode to any supported target formats.
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How to use AviSynth with MediaCoder (Stanley posted on June 5th, 2008 )

MediaCoder is known to be fully standalone and not dependent on any splitters, decoders, and filters that have to be installed in the system. However, in some cases, we do need to make use of those stuffs to achieve some goals. AviSynth is the bridge between splitters/decoders/filters and multimedia applications. There are two ways for using AviSynth with MediaCoder. Of course, as a precondition, you need to install AviSynth and possibly a codecs pack (e.g. K-lite) which contains a bunch of splitters and decoders.

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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.

Collection of open source P2P video software (Stanley posted on May 2nd, 2008 )

The following is a directory of open source software that can be used for P2P video streaming.

Tribler

  • License – GPL (Open Source)
  • Language – Python
  • Operating systems – Any platform that supports Python
  • Supported multimedia – Windows Media video, NullSoft video, Theora video and Dirac video

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Generate thumbnails automatically with MediaCoder (Stanley posted on April 30th, 2008 )

It is very easy to generate multiple thumbnails with MediaCoder automatically. In the Settings dialog, navigate to Video Filters->Thumbnails, you can find necessary options for thumbnail generating, like following:


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