Thanks for the reply. I tried overriding the sample rate to the proper input sample rate of 22050 as you stated above, but it didn't work. I don't think the problem is in the decoding side, because when I output OGG or AAC, it works correctly. Here is the console output when I don't put in the decoding sample rate override:
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Playing D:\bt\TL\2006\178-SuperPowers.rm.
REAL file format detected.
Stream description: audio/x-pn-multirate-realaudio logical stream
Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio
Clip info:
name: #178 Superpowers
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
Use a real OS!
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 64.1 kbit/18.16% (ratio: 8010->44100)
Selected audio codec: [ffcook] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg COOK audio decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [pipe] 22050Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...

Audio source: MPlayer
Sample Rate: 22050Hz Channels: 1 BPS: 16 Duration: 0

Audio encoder: Lame MP3
Sample Rate: 22050Hz Channels: 1 BPS: 16


# ".\codecs\lame.exe" "-" "D:\bt\TL\2006\178-SuperPowers.mp3" --priority 1 -q 0 -r -x -s 22050 -k --vbr-new -V 9
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The source and encoder sample rates are correct, and the output MP3 is indeed 22050KHz, but yet, the output file is much smaller than it's supposed to be, and it plays at high speed and high pitch. Could it be skipping input samples?

I've seen (heard) the chipmunk conversion problem as well, I think its a bug in MPlayer.

(Btw, Optimus, did you notice the graphics thing i posted about)

Click "Play" to play the file to see if the audio is correct. If so, then there is problem with MPlayer.
Try set it to 11025.

Setting the SRate to 11025 made it play at normal speed, but the sound was very hollow. I finally figured out the problem ... I had the LAME channel setting on "Auto," and it didn't properly detect that my input was Mono ... when I set it to "Mono" it works correctly. It was hanging up at 99% on the encodes, but I just downloaded the latest update, and it's working perfectly.

Thanks a million for the great tool!

Sorry for this stupid question, but everytime i load a preset nothing is changed, the target format window still displays xvid at 800 and lame at 112 kbps...

Can somebody point me...

Thanks a lot for new update and for your reply!
Don't you intent to make a fool new version of the tool instead of update?

Problem 1: Music encoded into MP3 ABR/VBR (I didn't try other ways) has this distinct click at the end of the track. My settings are default, no resampling, no gain, no nothing, just pure WAV into MP3 ABR 128.

Sample File

Problem 2: I just dropped APE and started transcoding to MP3 and then decided to stop the process in the middle. The progress freezes and MediaCoder can't stop, but does not continue. So, I need to restart.

Problem 3: OGG transcoding does not work at all! Unable to transcode OGG to any other format!

I'm using Linux. Has anybody tested this in a Linux machine.

I'm using Suse 10.0

Ok, lets try the bug report with the pictures then:


As it should be:



But alas:

IceHunter,
What version are you running? I'm running 0.3.7 build 1708 (SSE), and my Media Files Types look like your first pic ... they can be changed.

well... how do I encode using winamp?

and what should I do if the same thing happens...?

Same, as i wrote in the previous post it is a bug in the program (in how it doesn't handle dpi changes in windows)

Well, maybe you should just try the latest build. It fixes all the bugs that I was complaining about.

I've done a quick search, but haven't found anything on my problem.

I'm trying to convert a couple of .MP4 files (that Xbox Media Center won't play) into .AVI files. I'm using Xvid + LAME, but regardless of what I set the sliders to, it encodes with a video bitrate of ~350kbps and an audio bitrate of 96kbps. (Sliders are set for 1050 and 128, respectively.) Video is Fixed Bitrate; audio is VBR level 6. Everything else is at default.

The "Summury" tab (should be "Summary"?) show the options set as I want them, with an estimated file size of ~350 MB, but the resulting file is only 139 MB (and looks like it).

Running 0.3.7 build 1710, dated today. (1708 did the same thing.)

What am I missing?

I just told you I was. "What version are you using" "Same"
The author hasn't acknowledged it yet.

Optimus, I just downloaded newest update, build 1710, and I must say that I am furious!!!

Can you explain this message, please: This is an Media Coder update and can only be installed where a previous Full Pack is installed. Setup will now exit

I can't download Full Pack every time, and I currently use 0.3.7 build 1699. HELP.

Well... another problem.

I just can't encode ANYTHING from a CD, I tried encoding to wav and m4a, but then nothing happens... ...!

Then I used Nero to encode'em from the CD to wav, but my media coder doesn't encode any wav to m4a...!!!

This isn't right, is it?

As it is said, you need to install Full Pack before apply an update. There are many mirror sites where you can get Full Pack, try google for MediaCoder.


CD ripping is broken on WinXP and I haven't fixed it yet. What audio encoder did you choose?


I will try to fix the "Settings" dialog. But for the rest, I really don't have enough time to spare for them.

Choose 2-pass and you may get bit rate you specify.


I've tested it on Gentoo Linux + Wine with previous version, but not the current. Anyone who get the result please inform me.


Whatever tool you use to transcode from one lossy format to another brings loss in quality.
But if your ear cannot identify the change, you can do it.

thanks again for this awesome tool...

respect

You don't have enough time to program it properly? Well excuse me for taking up your valuable time, you wont hear from me again - I'll try to find another readable program that actually works under windows.

But I already installed Full Pack, 0.37 build 1680, and I updated that build to 1699, without problem. Why now I must to, AGAIN, download Full Pack?

Can't you release an update, just like before, one update was around 350 KB? I can't download very often Full Pack, because I have a "pain in the ass" slow dial-up conection. Help me, please.

I don't know if others have experienced the same problem with update installer.
Can you check if the destination folder of the installer has mediacoder.exe file in it?
I will release update with only mediacoder.exe in future (but sometimes I patched MPlayer, the update of executable alone won't work).


As I've said before, I use my free time to develop this program and charge for nothing. I have to make a living in day time by working in a company. So, don't ask for too much. It already works on most people's system, maybe not yours, but it is never my duty and you must know this. You can choose anything you like.

Optimus,
Please don't let rude people discourage you in your efforts. There are many of us who greatly appreciate all the time you've put into this program. Thank you very much for a terrific tool.

I check it, and everything is allright. Destination folder have mediacoder.exe in it. So, can you re-release build 1710, and fix that bug?

I just found and downloaded mediacoder. It looks like a nice little program, but I know nothing about transcoding and little about converting except with the eaxy drag and drop programs. Are there any instructions?? I only want to convert mov (song) and avi files (extract the audio) to audio (mp3, wav, etc) files. The "features" listed "Extracting audio tracks from video clips" Isl this the program I want? Or are there are any other FREE programs that might accomplish this better? When I added my file and clicked start it showed "nothing is transcoded....." I have no idea what the parameters are supposed to be in any of the boxes or how to set any of the windows. Some of my mov files are only audio, but they are still mov files. I just want the audio in other audio formats. I use iTunes as a player. My ultimate goal is to get these files into audio files that can be imported into Cubase. Can anyone help me?

Hi optimus,

Greetings from the UK!

I found MediaCoder yesterday, and it looks like it'll do exactly what I need to do - when I can get it to work! Essentially I am trying to copy VOB files (from a DVD of home movies that I have recorded) to MPEG-2, so I can edit them; add titles, transitions etc. I'm having some difficulty in generating MPEG- files that will play on my PC, so perhaps you could help me out?

I have the base pack plus the latest update. I've specified the video, audio and container requirements (copy from VOB to MPEG-2/Lame, saving as MPEG-2). I get a .mpg file in the target directory, of the size that's specified in the progress box on the right of the main screen - but the resulting file won't play. Every player I've tried to use has crashed when I've tried to play the file.

Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Many thanks,
Martyn

A lot of posts lately. Hang on there!

• The Summary is still misspelled (it is still Summury)
• Remember I suggested to add "Transfer Tags" to the Options menu right after "Delete original file after transcoding".
• The quality of resampler is not good, when the source is MP3 (haven't tested other formats). So, if I resample 44.1 KHz mp3 to 32 KHz ogg, I end up with a bad tune (170 kb). But if I first convert that mp3 to wav, and then resample it to 32 KHz ogg, I end up with a good tune (180 kb). The original sample used is here (232 kb).
• Equalizer has gone completely mad! I just activated it and changed 16000 Hz value. Well, the output (172 kb) sounds like a destruction music (considering the input was that mp3 sample offered in the previous statement).

Thank you for your time, Stanley!

(Sorry, I think I added a new Forum instead of posting into this one. Thus here it is. Am I the only one confused?)

New installation of MediaCoder on Win95 will not run

Hi, Yes, unbelievably I am still running Win95. It is a long story.

I just installed MediaCoder 0.3.7 (20060416). The installation process went fine; no indications of any problems. There was no virus software running at the time, nor in my testing process to try to figure out what is going on. I installed to a non-stanard folder "Programs" instead of "Program Files", but otherwise it was a standard, full install.

The problem is: Upon starting up the program it immediately puts out two Windows altert boxes:

1) Error Starting Program
The MEDIAINFO.DLL file is
linked to missing export KERNEL32.DLL:IsDebuggerPresent.

2) C:\Programs\MediaCoder\mediacoder.exe
A device attatched to the system is not functioning.

I have never before seen such an error or had such a problem with a program starting, going all the way back to when Win95 was a new program.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

this is the fastest avi to mpeg2 (DVD) transcoder i have used, and i think i have played with about all of them

I tried both of them (CT and 3GPP), but both failed transcoding.

Now I'm with a new (and a way better!) pc. Athlon 64 3700+, 1GB RAM... ... ... The other trouble with the quality decreasing just disappeared...!!! May that be due to the new motherboard? (the other was ASUS A7-etc-etc-etc, now it's an ASUS A8X-etc).



BUT... I still can't encode from wav to mp4. I tried all the combinations (CT and 3GPP combined to all the sources). All the 6 combinations finish on that "Nothing is transcoded" window.

WTF is that?

Check the sampling rate of your file. AAC+ only supports > 32khz.

Can you walk me thru exactly what you do and what settings you are using? If I try to convert avi to mpeg2, I get a 0byte file and mediacoder crashes because it runs out of vitrual memory.

Bump......

I hope the developer can advise if this program is still supposed to run on Win95 or if that is no longer true ... in which case the operating system requirements should be changed.

Thanks.

Mediacoder was mentioned in the news entry on our homepage now : http://www.matroska.org/news/index.html

Sorry i cant work on the planned Guide for the time being, but i promise to look at it sooner or later.

Christian
matroska project admin

Sorry to annoy you, but Add Track here keeps freezing MediaCoder. When I click on it nothing happens, except that CPU usage go up until 99%.
I tried monitoring the program with Filemon for missing files or .dll, but apparently nothing is wrong. I have XP SP2.
Any hint?

MediaCoder have dependency on MediaInfo library and the latter requires some APIs that Win95 doesn't provide. I will remove the dependency on MediaInfo from the Win9x version so that it will run on Win95.


Thank you very much Christian!


This problem has once been reported. I guess it has got blocked whiling accessing ASPI to read CD information. Did you have disc in your CD-ROM/DVD-ROM when clicking Add Track?


====================================================================

I'm currently working intensively on the new 0.3.8 version. It will have some exciting features:

PSP dedicated transcoder GUI (support PMP 2.0)
Improved cropping function (including crop-detect)
Improved preview function
Resizable main window
CD ripping function fixed
Accessing to MediaCoder's settings through web browser
and more...

Please stand by.

I tried everything: with CD audio or movie DVD or nothing inserted. The results are the same.
But now that you mentioned ASPI, I've recently discovered that I've no Windows ASPI installed on my sistem, but Nero ASPI instead. Maybe this is worth investigating.

EDIT: Installed Adaptec Windows ASPI and removed Nero ASPI and InCD: nothing changed.

Hello!

I am having problems converting my MPEG-2 files, created from my computer's HDTV recordings into any video formats like MPEG-1. Everytime I convert in MediaCoder v0.3.7 b1712, I get an error. I even told it to not include audio.

I can play the video source files in so I assume the file is fine. I have a copy of the file online at: http://www.theupload.com/viewfile.php?id=00030824 ... if you need a copy to mess with it.

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you in advance.

I just tried transcoding your file to Xvid + MP3 in AVI and H.264 + aacPlus in MP4 and both works.


I will look into this problem later.
At this moment, an work around is to use "Add File" to add .cda files or .vob files into the list.

Optimus, please do not forget to add AC3 audio support in Media Coder 0.38. What's going on with that, you said earlier that you will add support for *.AC3 files trascoding.

Now to convert other video to XviD we have a percentage bar.
What are the equivalent percentages to the old Quantitizer method? (Quantitizer 3, 4 etc.)

??????????????????????

0.3.8 is released.

Changelog of 0.3.8 Full Pack:

1. MediaCoder updated to build 1800

1.1 added dedicated transcoder UI for PSP Media Player
1.2 improved cropping function crop options are now applied and kept for each single file)
1.3 main window now resizable
1.4 normal and advanced GUI mode
1.5 added transcoding parameters HTML listing (by enabling built-in HTTP daemon and opening http://localhost:8000/pref)
1.6 fixed broken CD ripping function
1.7 lots of misc fixups and improvements

2. updated MediaCoder command line utility
3. updated PMP muxer to v2.0
4. updated x264
5. updated MPlayer & MEncoder

Get it here
A PSP transcoding HOWTO is here.

btw: Sorry for not adding AC3 audio only encoding yet (will add it later)

Hi Optimus,

There is no mention for build 1800 of the fix to allow it to run on Windows 95 as you mentioned in a very recent post.

Does build 1800 include the Win95 fix?

Thanks for your hard work.

forgive me if this has been addressed before...

Love mediacoder, having messed with other stuff and all those codecs it's an alternative from heaven.

There are only two things I regularly do that I cant figure out how to get mc to do them.

1.dub a wav file onto a avi (take the video from one file and add the audio from another)
2. encode to divx that will play on a philips divx ready dvd player (home theater divx option in the official codec seems to work).

for both these task I have to dig out vdub. I'd love to be able to stick with vlc and mediacoder for all my playback/transcoding tasks andd free my computer of all those dreaded codecs. Can it be done?

Hi,

I just ran .38 and it got past the bug where too many files caused it to lock up..
What I'm trying to do is convert my Ogg Vorbis music into Itunes' m4a.

Issue 1: The only Source that works is WinAmp input plugins, I tried to extract mplayers codec windows-all-20050412.zip into C:\mplayer but this setting only locks up mediacoder. Will Winamp work the best?

Issue 2: No tags are being transfered. I've checked in options that tags transfer is set to YES.
I've confirmed with Tag&Rename that the Ogg is properly tagged, and I've re-encoded using LAME and FAAC and Tag&Rename and iTunes shows no tags. I think ogg's standard uses a special type of tags.

Is there any way to see what the "Error" is when a file is skipped?

Thanks again,

crobusa

I've removed the dependency of MediaInfo.dll from win9x version. But I don't have a chance to test it on Win95. Please try and tell me the result.



1. I will add this function.
2. Xvid should be able to produce DivX compatible files (you need to tune some parameters of xvid) and you may also try setting Div 4/5 as video format. Tell me it works or not.
Thanks for being stick with mediacoder.


I don't have an idea about the cause of your problem. Can you test with other target format?
Turn on the console window (press F6) and you will be able to read more info there.

"only supports > 32khz" means "only supports up to 32khz" or "only supports more than 32khz"?

The wavs I tried were all 44.1khz.

And now I gotta say I'm very happy that the CD ripping is gonna work...!

Heya I am a brand new user to MediaCoder so please excuse if this problem has been posted before.

I am running the latest version "0.3.8 build 1802"

I am trying to convert regular mp3 files to 3gpp AAC+ for my cell phone, these are the steps that I done

I added files and chose an output folder. I clicked on "3GPP AAC+" and chose a bitrate of 32Kbps, unchecked "Enable Parametric Stereo". Then I went to File >Settings >Audio Filters >Volume Normalization >Value >Yes. Applied everything then hit start. However for some reason after I hit start the files just skip over in error and none of the files convert. Please help me resolve this problem, log file is at the end of this message.


Thanks for your help

[03-28 13:47:59] [3GPP AAC+] Applying codec parameters
[03-28 13:47:59] [3GPP AAC+] Applying codec parameters
[03-28 13:47:59] Opening audio source (MPlayer)
[03-28 13:48:00] Applying codec parameters
[03-28 13:48:00] [3GPP AAC+] Applying codec parameters
[03-28 13:48:00] Starting audio encoder (3GPP AAC+ V2)
[03-28 13:48:00] [3GPP AAC+] Loading codec DLL
[03-28 13:48:00] [3GPP AAC+] Incompatible version of (null) loaded.
[03-28 13:48:00] Error loading 3GPP AAC+ V2
[03-28 13:48:00] Error occured during audio transcoding.

>=32khz
44.1khz wav also doesn't work?