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MediaCoder is a free audio/video batch transcoder, putting together many excellent audio/video softwares from the open source community into one friendly GUI. On video side, MEncoder, ffmpeg are used as back-end, which provides support for nearly all known video compression and container formats as well as rich and useful video filtering features (e.g. post-processing, 3D de-noise). Supports CUDA acceleration.
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Freeware/Adware  Win  Released: Size:59.4MB |
6.5/10
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Latest version: 0.8.21.5398 (May 16, 2013) Download sites: Visit developer's site More download options: Download update Sponsored software: Supported operating systems: Windows
Sections/Browse similar tools: All In One Video Converters, Audio Encoders, Video Encoders / Converters |
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User options: Email me when it has been updated Report this tool (dead link/new version) Version history:
0.8.21.5398 View full changelog 5/17/2013 Adjusted “Sound” tab layout Fixed AviSynth audio source breakage Fixed bitstream scanning blocking issue for some defective files Updated Opus audio codec (libopus 1.1) Replaced qtaacenc with qaac (another actively maintained CLI for Apple’s AAC encoding engine) Updated MediaInfo 0.7.63 |
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Fantastik Tools !
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over a ten year+ period, i've tried media coder several times, but there were too many quirks. and try to find some of the options! ha!
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Well this app did what others would not. I had to start thinking a little about what I was going to do, though. Which isn't a problem at all. It's just going to chase some people away that don't want to think and just want to convert impossible conversions. Anyway, the problem with the website coming up is easily remedied by re-installing the app, choosing custom install. One of the options is to install xul, and by default it is unchecked. The setup program tells you blatantly that if it is left unchecked, then it will use Firefox's xul support. If you check it, the setup program will download the files needed so that it can bypass loading up Firefox. That's all. At first run, Firefox loads to a "You have successfully installed this app" screen, and on that web page there is a checkbox you can select that says " Do not load this webpage at startup." Check it and you will never see Firefox or IE again. That's all. I really like this app because of so many options available to encode to. SOME formats are picky and will not convert the way you want to. That's not the app's problem. Know the specs on your files and their conversion limitations before you go on blaming this app. Do some small conversion first before doing a large one if you don't know what I'm talking about. That's all.
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Forget about it, you can't get nothing accomplished using MediaCoder. It just gives you many error messages, even worse, you get the error message and the dreaded "no file outputted" message at the end of 2-3 hours of encoding a video file and you end up with nada, nothing. Doesn't bother to warn you before you proceed with the encode that there may be problems. The error message states "Error Code: XXX Click OK to get explanation" but when you click OK, you get nothing. Getting it to work to output DivX is a big project, it won't accept the new or recent DivX codec, it will only work with DivX 4 & 5, but not 6 and you have to get ahold of one of those version's divx.dll and place it in the MediaCoder directory and use VFW as a back end. To use aac+ you have to install Winamp 5 or copy the corresponding DLLs into MediaCoder's directory, and even then you get an error and "no file outputted" at the end with no explanation as to why. You can't do this, you can't do that. I could go on and on. MediaCoder gives me a headache.
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Doh! It simply doesn't work as expected. The interface is overloaded, too many options but the result is null. Could you believe that? A three minute sample of an MPEG2 DVB-S program has been converted just fine. Now I set the Time to get the full length video, wait for an hour and no installed player will play neither video nor sound from the file. Ridiculous. I'm ditching the package and will not be recommending against this POS to any of my friends.
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Love the comprehensiveness of this program.
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Hi ... when trying to download this program from the Author's website my Avira AntiVirus was blocking all kinds of TROJANs ... has anyone else experienced this. I downloaded the program BUT opted NOT to install it. Pretty Fishy! The earlier version way back a year or so was good and no TROJAN alerts. G!:)
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New to me, the latest release of mediacoder (0.6.2 build 4240) added a web based "setup wizard" for a large number of "from/to" video formats. I must admit that I felt lucky when I stumbled onto the correct settings to transcode a video, but I could never replicate the process from session-to-session even following some of the HOWTO's and became very frustrated with the software. Now the web setup wizard takes what used to be a very difficult process of configuring mediacoder into a relatively simple step-by-step process. If you haven't tried mediacoder recently it might be worth your time give it another try. It provides excellent quality, at great speed, and is now easier to use.
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Finally, a program that direct copies an MPEG2 stream into a file which can then be read (and not lose half the file) by VideoReDo. The interface confusing but after some mucking around, the program works a treat. Will use again.
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This is the only free software that would convert wma to mp3 without errors.
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THIS TOOL COULD HAVE BEATEN ALL THE SHAREWARES ONLY IF THE AUTHOR MR. STANLEY LISTEN TO THE CORRECT PERSON. FIRST STABILISE THE X264 FOR CORRECT BLUERAY AND HDDVD COMPLIANT. SECOND M2TS HEADER WITH MPEG2 AS EXISTING IS MPEG-4. ADD LOGO INSERTION AND ADD SOME FFDSHOW TYPE FILTERS DEBAND AND CORRECT THE DVD TRACK MODE SO THAT ONE CAN SELECT THE CHAPTERS PROPERLY AND ENCODE AS IT WAS PRESENT SOME ONE YEAR BACK.
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I couldn't select ZERO so I had to score 1. This is the lousiest software ever made. It crashes continuously on XP SP2 It opens your browser at every encode task-run to display useless info, It fails to encode into WMV It fails to encode into MP4 with AVC/h264, It does not have any MOV output, The PSP output (if you manage to encode without failure) won't ever work on your PSP etc.. etc.. ZERO big time
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Great program, I much prefer this to SUPER. I've been trying out tons of video programs and MediaEncoder tops them all, including programs that are more limited and charge a license fee. I've found most software from Sourceforge is quality stuff and this is no exception. I certainly don't have a problem that it requires Firefox since I've been a Mozilla devotee from way back. I find that Internet Explorer being embedded into my operating system a bigger gripe, but to each his own. Finally, for the few people that have trashed MediaEncoder, I'm guessing they were using one of the betas. I tried the latest development version and had problems, but the most recent stable version is rock solid. Make sure you're using a stable release before passing judgment on something that is constantly being improved.
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Exactly like i said previously, needs firefox , and wants to call home? Definately leave this one alone, better freeware out there.
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In one word ... MediaCoder 0.6.1.4048 will not even work ... it just does not initialize. And it does not even tell why!?!? Thanks god that I kept my old 0.6.0.3220 version around. Anything passed that version DOES NOT Work. And why would a program need Internet Access to get going ... is it a Spyware or what ... So to me this program is worth big ZERO, even though is free. I hope the Author reads this and do something about.
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Get to know WinFF's capabilities and leave this complicated, horrid program to its devotees. Winff will do every thing media coder will do, and even more with user settings. (mediacoder is just a gui for ffmpeg etc). and the need to have firefox to even make it work is ridiculous.
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I'm newbie at transcoding and MediaCoder was easy to use. Sometimes would pause during operation, but found on forums that it is problem with ffmpeg - changed settings to use MEncoder and everything works smoothly. I'm using version 060 build 3998 which comes with a preset for converting video files in to very high quality H.264 files(mp4). Another feature that was important to me is that the author also offers it in a zip file with no installation required.
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IMO, the best universal transcoder, open source or commercial. I use it exclusively mostly backup my camcorder DV video and DVDs to H.264 using x264 and Nero AAC. SUPER, also very good, is easier to use; and MeGUI is a more powerful x264 frontend. But for shear flexibility and configurability across many codecs, MediaCoder is hard to beat. The main drawbacks are that (1) the author updates the app often, which is great...but sometimes, it breaks the saved settings I have (not a big deal b/c I can just revert to the working version); and (2) it takes a bit of fiddling initially with the myriad options to get it working just right.
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Windows Live OneCare pops up when I download the version from SourceForge with the warning that it detected TrojanDownloader:Win32/Zlob. Like in 2006 with Norton (reported by another users) is it probably a false positive. Since it is not the first time would one might think that current versions should not have this problem anymore. Or is it Microsoft who missed something?
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The latest version's DEMAND of MOZILLA FIREFOX to be installed has killed my love for this program
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I use this tool to convert to xvid. I like the overall quality it gives. although this tool cannot do everything. i faced couple of issues. 1. it doesnt have an easy way to crop and then resize and then encode to xvid which Dr. Divx provides in a very intuitive way. 2. it doesnt encodes my 1080p wmv to Mpeg4-AVC and i dont know why. overall for simple dvd to xvid or mpg to xvid it is very good and very fast.
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Terribly confusing interface. I wasted a lot of time trying to work out how to just load a file and convert it to a chosen format. I've managed to do it once or twice, but when I tried to do it agaion a few weeks later I couldn't remember how. And don't say RTFM because THERE IS NO HELP OR MANUAL.
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Added a simple guide for using Mediacoder 0.3.9 for DivX/XviD to DVD compliant MPEG2 conversion. Following is the link http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=311170&highlight= Tried Mediacoder 0.5.1 Pre9 released today for the above conversion. Quality of MPEG2 produced is terrible. And getting to MPEG2 conversion selection has become more confusing. Hope the author will read my message and do something
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I still confirm my admiration for this free program, which does a very good job of conversion of defective DivX / XviD files to MPEG2 which make many other programs throw in the towel in the middle of the game. My comments are, however, only for versions upto 0.3.9. I also got the hang of how to get a stutter free NTSC encode. The time code got all skewed-up but the video plays fine and the audio remains in perfect sync. I suspect most of the compaints are originating from difficulty in setting up the various parameters. Lack of a guide is sorely felt. I may be writing down my own experience for others to use as a guide ( for only DivX/XviD -->> MPEG2 conversion). All the 0.5 versions (including the latest) either crash immediately on start of encoding or - the latest version continues to produce extremely blocky MPEG1 (with 1:1 DAR) inspite of all efforts / combinations to produce a DVD compliant MPEG2. The author, really, should go back to version 0.3.9 and work up from there to get rid of the remaining bugs.
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Nop, for sure this is not the one i will use. The author made 26 updates in 2 months going from 0.5.1-pre1 till 0.5.1 build 2632. wait a second, we are not beta testers here. It is true that the application is free however it is not working. The author spent too much time fixing the graphical interface and did nothing to the internal encoding core. Result is a very heavy, bulky and complicated interface like running an industrial gas turbine! I will use other simplified encoder which is Years ahead. The funniest part is: the author says on his page http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page in a Statement from the author - 2006-07-19 "I must say MediaCoder is not a software fit for everyone" This is very true.
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