Thanks for the report. I will take a look at this issue soon.

Where we can find a "What´s New" when a new version or minor update is released?

Fixed Quantitizer is only avaliable with Xvid? What about H.264 and Mpeg-4 (DivX4/5)?

Yes, H.264 and DivX4/5 encoder don't seem to support this mode.
There will be a what's new from now on.

Stanley, do you have any tips on how to use MediaCoder with Winamp 5.2 aacPlus v 1.2? I simply replaced the codec with the newer one in the MediaCoder\codecs folder. I'm not sure if options like MPEG2 or MPEG4 are recognized.

I actually joined your forum, but I couldn't get into any English sections where I could communicate.

My number 1 request is that the transcoding continue when one file cannot be encoded and that there afterwards be an output log file reporting which files were skipped.

[Addendum: I just installed your January 26, 2006 update and noticed that Ogg Vorvis default seems to have switched to using mplayer. I encoded some FLACs for my iAudio X5 and was amazed to see lancer oggenc2 speeds getting to nearly 34x; before this 29x was the highest.]

I haven't tested with aacPlus encoder shipped with Winamp 5.2. I'm not sure if it can work. As the AOL don't like others to call their encoder, I suspect they might have put some barrior.
You request is reasonable. I will apply it.
Yes, the default audio source is not MPlayer, before it was Winamp input plugins. You know, I will sooner or later no longer reply on them. Anyway, I've just optimized the interfacing code with Winamp input plugins to get faster speed.

Optimus, wait a minute, AOL isn't really a owner of AAC+ codec, so I don't know why they emailed you with that stupid warning.

I propose that you continue to use AAC+ encoder, who cares what AOL said.

Hi~optimus
Thanks for your great tool.MediaCoder is very convenient to me.
I'm from Taiwan,and I think it will be great if there is a traditional chinese version.
Tomorrow is Chinese New Year.I think you must be very busy these days.
Sorry for my bad English. Wish you a Happy New Year.

realmax, is that you on the pic, or is that your girl? Pretty!

Optimus, the Resampler makes a click at the beginning of the track, when resampling from 48 to 44.1 KHz, when converting from FLAC. I also tried converting 48 KHz OGG to 44.1 KHz output. It didn't produce a click.

Converting 44.1 KHz FLAC to 32 KHz output doesn't produce a click.

EDIT: Oh, yeah, and another observation. The output produced from 48 KHz FLAC is quiter than the original. So, not only you get the click, you also have incorrect level of the output. I remember having the same problem when converting AC3 (which is always 48 KHz) to 44.1 KHz OGG. I guess it's a bug in resampling tool, used in MediaCoder.

It is too bad that MediaCoder doesn't come bundled with CT's aacPlus encoder anymore (yes, I am aware that you can still manually point MediaCoder to the encoder, but a bundled encoder was way more convenient and user-friendly). CT's implementation of HE-AAC v2 was the best IMHO. Anyways, does anyone know which version of MediaCoder last contained a bundled CT aacPlus encoder, and where I could download this version?
Has anyone gotten to the root of the aacPlus audio delay issue yet?
On a different note, how does one resize video output (when encoding to x264) using high quality filters like "Precise Bicubic" or "Lanczos 3"? Thanks.

He can't bundle it because AOL told him not to, so it doesn't really matter if it was more user friendly or convenient...
In any case, you should not use the bundled version from an older one, because the latest Winamp (and maybe the beta too ?) has a newer version, I think.

Yes, Winamp 5.20 Beta comes with new Coding Technologies AAC+ V2 encoder, which allows to use audio bitrates higher then 128 kbps.

Soon, perhaps within one month, we can expect Winamp 5.2 Final.

AOL is the owner of Winamp. They bought Nullsoft.

The resampler provided by MPlayer is not that good. I will add a new resampler later. (I've already got the code).

Hi~新年好! Happy new year!
I'm enjoying the spring festival these days, having dinner with relatives here and there (I guess u r doing these too), so no time for updating
I'm planning for multi-lingual support. Currently there is not any Chinese versions (neither simplified nor traditional Chinese). However I really hope some people can help me with the translation work.

You can bundle a version with CT's encoder yourself, simply by putting the enc_aacplus.dll in the "codecs" folder of MediaCoder.
As for resizing, currently u may take a look at MEncoder docs and adds extra options for it. (In Settings -> Overall -> MEncoder Options -> Extra Options)

Some problems with CD-ripping with your and Nullsoft's last release.
Rips, encodes and then just continues...

If I quit the MediaCoder, encoded files plays just fine.
Happens only, when the source is CD.

An update is available, with the following changes:

1. fixed MP4 issue
2. improved checking for update function
3. added logger
4. added more options for video resizing (including algorithm selection)
5. CT AAC+ will be automatically found and used if WinAmp is installed (at default place)
6. fixed bug when Xvid profile is specified (you still need to specify output framerate manually when using Simple Profile)

The CD-ripping function is broken, as the CD reader plugin (in_CDReader.dll, the substitution for Nullsoft's in_cdda.dll) doesn't work as expected.

EDIT: Now the update has a installer too, no need to extract and overwrite the executable manually any more.

Dear Optimus,

Congratulations for making such a powerful software. As a newbie, I am not able to work with different settings n buttons. Are there any user guide or help topics? I want to use your software to extract one of the channel of the audio track of a karaoke avi into mp3. Can you teach me what settings should be made?

A thousand thanks,
william

Hey, guess what. This is an application that I need, so I made MediaCoder to do it!
Follow these steps:

1. In Audio tab, check the "Split Stereo Channels" checkbox and set "Encoder" to "Lame MP3"
2. In Video tab, set "Video Format" to none
3. Drags your karaoke avi into the list, set an output folder, and click Start button.

thanks a lot for the instruction, i did it but the mp3 is shorter and the music and singing are much faster than normal, what have I missed? I try different bitrate but it is the same abnormal sound!
William

The sample rate of your source avi might not be correctly detected. This can be caused by many reasons.
Currently there is not a forcing sample rate function. I might add this in next release.

Thanks for your reply. I look forward to you new release.
Cheers,
William

Hello there
What a promising tool here. Thanks for such an extensive development :-) According to these post I am probably only person trying to run this tool under windows 98. I've found the tool yesterday I've been reading these posts all night and I've got no hint regarding windows 98 except of the info that it works there. O yes I am kidding I've not been logged whole night :-) but here is my situation.
I downloaded latest build MediaCoder-0.3.5-20060204.exe, installed full version and :-( causes an illegal operation whe trying to run. I am going to reinstal but is there a chance that I have missed something or forgotten to install something that makes the package supported under windows 98? as I am not planning to use ape encoding in near future I don't have installed unicode layer at the moment.

Windows 98 is mostly not tested when I release. Actually I built 2 versions (one is for win9x) and packaged both of them in the installer. The installer should install different versions on detecting what system it is running on.
I've no idea about what the cause is. However, I did upgraded my NSIS (the installer maker).
Here is the latest Win9x build, u may test it and report me if it works or not.
http://www.rarewares.org/mediacoder/mediacoder-w9x.zip

Hm. both the apps the one installed by nsis setup and the one you posted produces the same error too. It is that well-know dialog saying that application has caused an illegal operation. Here is exactly what I see when runing.
Note. I have localized version of windows so I tryed to translate it to english.
Thanks for your support. If this gives you no ideas you can then be sure that you should no longer bother with win 9x and remove respective files from the installer.
I am mainly interested in conversion from MP3 and OGG to HE AAC PS. As winamp transcoder can process up to 30 files per session on my system I am looking for a replacement.
Here is the code:

Hi Optimus,

I've been trying to find an opensource app that will transcode .mov files from my camera into .avi files or .mp4 files for my ipod. Videora will transcode the files, but they aren't accepted by my ipod.
Mediacoder has so many options I don't really know where to start.
I managed to get one file to .avi successfully and then through Videora to my ipod, but I can't replicate it, and Mediacoder didn't transcode the sound.
I also had to manually type the .avi extension on to the filename afterwards.

Could you point me at the settings I'm looking for please.

Thanks in advance
Hapax-Legomenon

Optimus, again you compiled buggy release? Newest build 0.3.5 1400 won't transcode from WAV to WMA. I have all nessesary components. Can you fix it soon.

Other conversions are OK, except yopur program, again, won't work if I set container to MP4 format. I use newest MP4 Box version. Paths are OK.

When I select x264 as video encoder it says "This encoding mode is not supported by the encoder" for all the video format. What I have to do?
I have x264 installed son what is the problem?

Can I know what is the version of xvid included ?

Thanks

Messo

Messo, you can't select x264 as video encoder, only mencoder. In future builds, perhaps Optimus change this.

Optimus, I am waiting for your answer.

Thanks Kotarum.....

Bug:

Mediacoder 0.3.5 build 1439 and 1437 crash when No Audio or Waveform/PCM are selected.......


Messo

Well, it crash only if I select WMA for audio, otherwise works OK.

I'm sorry that I've been kept busy with my work at office this week. As soon as my business comes to an end (expected feb 15), I will give an hand to fix all the reported bugs.

hey optimus.

is there any way u, or somebody could release, or point me to version 3.2, as anything more current than that version seems to get buggier and buggier to the point where im using 3.5 and cant even transcode a single file without it crashing.

thanks.

Hi Optimus,

please allow me to introduce myself to you. I am ChristianHJW, one of the admins and founders of the matroska project. Congratulations for your excellent tool, i am testing it currently wiht a lot of different input and output formats (at least this is the plan, time permitting).

We do get a lot of user requests for a simple MKV to DVD conversion tool, and allthough i do have no clue about DVD Authoring, i do understand your tool could be used to transcode a MKV to a MPEG2 file with AC3 audio, and using either PAL or NTSC video resolution.

If your tool works fine for the planned conversion, we are considering to point all matroska users to your tool from our homepage (about 100,000 unique hits per month today). I was testing a similar tool on http://alltoavi.sourceforge.net/ , it worked fine on various MKVs i threw at it, but i dont like the guys anti-MKV attitude and the fact that only AVI can be the output.

Now, when i set up the audio to be FFMPEG codec, AC3 output, i get the following message (i am using 0.3.5. plus latest update, build 1455) :

'Failed to load FFMPEG audio codec. This is most possible that the encoder is absent'

I got the full pack, so what else could be missing ? Can there be a conflict with latest Dr DivX II from DivX Inc. , which is using (and registering) a ffmpeg.dll on my Windows ?

Thanks for a short reply, i was searching the thread for 'FFMPEG' but didnt find a similar bug report anywhere.

Christian
matroska project admin
http://www.matroska.org

Thanks for your interest in my tool. I will surely look into this issue. It will be an honor for me to let my software be a choice of the maker of Matroska.

Hey guys, I'm back busy fixing bugs again. There is already a minor update availble now. Check it out.

Hey Kostarum, you can send me the log file via email.

PS. I suggest u clean up your post so that other readers can read posts with ease.

could release MidiaCoder by archive pack (no install)?

软件很不错，但希望可以提供免安装版本

Please set your heart at rest. The installer is quite "green", besides extracting files, it only adds very limited data into your system (the startup menu, desktop icon and uninstall info). No garbage at all because I hate garbage.

OK, Optimus, I will try new build 1458. And after that, I will send you a log file, if bug is still present. Just to inform you, WMA encoding work very well in 0.3.4 builds?

Well, Mediacoder build 0.3.5 1458 still won't compress from WAV or any other audio source to WMA audio format. Here is the proof:

http://img154.imageshack.us/my.php?image=l...uild14580vr.jpg


What can you do about this, Optimus It's really annoying.

Have u tried re-installing Windows Media Encoder?

No, but I don't believe that Windows Media Encoder make any problem. Winamp 5.12 playing WMA and WMV9 files without any problem.

From Winamp, ripping in WMA format works.

Hi Optimus!

I just downloaded MediaCoder and it seems to be a great program

I did however run into problems as I started using it, as I wasn't able to transcode either .wmv (Windows media video) or .mov (Quicktime) files.

When I add one of these files I get the following information in the console window:

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C:\Test.wmv
Incorrect extension. Use option --nocheck to force processing.

** ERRORS:
Incorrect extensions: 1

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Is there an easy way to resolve this problem?

Kind regards,

Klas

mpc to anything encoding is broken, as well as wave, and in winamp input mode, mp3....actually...everything is broken, also...the program wont save your old encoding settings when you exit out!

Thanks for the information!
Guess I'll just wait for an updated version of the program then...

The critical bug is fixed! I'm sorry to have so many things broken, however all these are caused by one mistake, actually a single mis-typed line in the code. Get the latest update here, please. This should fix some of the bugs mentioned in the above posts.

Another audio related bug is found by Todd and is fixed. Thanks todd.
Update here.
Sorry for unthorough testing.

EDIT: Please download the full pack to get MPlayer & MEncoder updated. I've patched them to fix some issues.