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MediaCoder 0.8.28 is released and a happy holiday! (Stanley posted on December 20th, 2013 )

MediaCoder 0.8.28 is just released. This version added support for VP9 encoding. Though the vpxenc is slow encoding VP9 with almost no multi-threading implementation (unlike VP8 encoding), MediaCoder’s Segmental Video Encoding backs it up. With SVE enabled, the VP9 encoding speed boosts by times, though still low comparing to x264.

Several other tools have been updated. An x64 build of MP4Box is included in 64-bit distribution. Several minor bugs got fixed. For GPU encoding, I fine tuned the pre-processing filtering parameters to eliminate some side effect I witnessed myself.

For more info about the new release, just head for the changelog.

Finally, I wish a happy holiday to all of my users! It’s been almost 9 years since the very first spark and I have never stopped working on it. MediaCoder has served millions of people I believe. Thinking about all these, I feel my time and efforts spent throughout the years all worth it.

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MediaCoder GPU encoding quality improved practically (Stanley posted on January 17th, 2013 )

An approach for improving GPU encoding quality has been done in 0.8.18.5450. A high quality and high performance temporal denoiser is implemented and automatically activated when encoding with GPU. This will not improve SSIM but the pre-processing will make up for the shortage of all GPU encoders (Intel MSDK and CUDA) and improve perceptual visual quality of the encoded content. As the denoiser is working fully parallel to decoding and encoding, there is very little performance overhead.

With this improvement, GPU encoding quality is now generally acceptable, especially for playback on mobile screens, and more specifically, 1.5Mbps video encoded by CUDA encoder looks quite good on iPhone screen.

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Tips for using Intel MSDK encoder in MediaCoder (Stanley posted on March 10th, 2012 )

Recently I’ve been spending some time improving MediaCoder’s support for Intel MSDK encoder, the GPU acclerated H.264 and MPEG-2 encoder from the chip giant. A new revision of MediaCoder (before I can finish and implement all the major improvements in my mind and release MediaCoder 2012), is released containing several improvements including slight performance boost when using Intel MSDK encoder to perform hardware accelerated encoding.

Actually the performance of Intel MSDK encoder is astonishing. This comes from the good implementation of the underlying multimedia facilities of Intel Media SDK framework, as well as the multi-threaded design of MediaCoder, espeically its built-in large circulla frame buffer used for efficiently transferring raw audio and video data from decoder to encoder.

Here I give some tips for using Intel MSDK encoder in MediaCoder.

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