MediaCoder 0.6.1.4166 Development Test 1 (Testers Needed)

Is this the one where you need to be connected to the internet to use it?

Tim

I wanted to try this out but it says you need Firefox installed to use it. I removed Firefox from my drive after unsatisfactory performance of 3 and have been using K-Meleon Portable instead.

Getting an error incorrect parameters for Nero Encoder.

Nero Encoder is used for the lc-acc for some reason with this version the settings I've been using with previous versions of Mediacoder do not work

Apparently this is the earlier version of 4166. There's an update on the mediacoder site which resolves this issue. I downloaded it, extracted it using Universal Extractor, and copied the files over the top of the others, most are in app/mediacoder and one is in data/settings.

When launching MediaCoder, I get a popup with the following error - Unable to access registry for system font information. Once I acknowledge that, the MediaCoder window comes up.

This is on an XP system where I don't have admin rights.

MediaCoder is awesome! I've been looking for a good video transcoder forever to copy my DVD movies to my iPod, and MediaCoder is the best one I've seen. The interface is easy to use and transcoding is fast... even better that it's free (in both senses)--and portable!

MediaCoder (regular version) has problems with Vista and Fx 3. I would recommend holding off on a final release until this has been resolved. Also, MediaCoder is at 4190 (released today in fact), so you may want to update.

MediaCoder includes a lot of codecs for which the author does not have any rights to distribute them.

The most notable infringements are:

- Distribution of Nero Digital HE-AAC Encoder, Copyright Nero AG
- Distribution of Sony ATRAC3 Codec for RealAudio, Copyright RealNetworks, Inc.
- Distribution of MP3Pro Input Plugin, Copyright Coding Technologies GmbH

The author of MediaCoder is aware of the infringements, but refuses to remove the problematic codecs. This was discussed with the author on HydrogenAudio.org earlier this year in this forum thread.

I think that distributing MediaCoder with these codecs could make PortableApps.com liable for copyright infringement. It would be better to remove the codecs from the PortableApps.com version - if not discontinue to distribute MediaCoder entirely.

Hope this coming along okay still

From what I remember from the past, some components of MediaCoder use the Gecko engine from Firefox.

Why are you so afraid of making a portable version of the new program? This program was made in '05. Its 08. If nero, realnetworks, or coding technology's wants to copyright their stuff, then they need to get off their lazy butt and do something about this.

Why not either a) remove the copyrighted codecs, or b) have someone upload it to megaupload or some site like that,then just link it. This way, pa can say its linking to the site, not hosting it. If you think this isn't going to work, i can show you proof of several torrent sites that have been able to evade the authorities by saying they LINK content, not host it.

really cool everything works good for me on xp

Any word on a more current version?

OK, I thought it was open source software, and thus could be repackaged without the questionable codecs involved, since the codecs can be downloaded separately, and perhaps it could be changed to use open source codec versions that would work in place of certain ones. But I do realize this would be a lot of work and I for one don't have the required knowledge to do it. I'll have to try working around it, but so far this is the best reencoder that I've found. I like to use it and a couple other tools for getting videos to have the same stats then I can splice them together with other tools and make coherent videos/short movies without having to go buy closed source software. I prefer using open source if it's available and I thought this used mencoder for a back end which is open source, it's just certain codecs that are the problem, and I don't install most of the codecs anyway, just the few that work with the video's I've captured using other open source software.

Incidentally this package, which is still available here for download works in conjunction with the 0.6.2 build 4200 update, I simply uncompressed the update using uniextract, and coppied the files over the top of the old ones, keeping a copy of the initial directory while I tested it, it seems to work ok for the stuff I use it for. Haven't tried it with the newer 4230 yet though.

Just checking if there has been any changes in the status of this app regards to acceptability into the portableapps.com fold. If so the base app has been updated. If not does anyone know of any alternative OSS audio and or video converters? Also a good OSS audio tagger?

It crushes whenever I change process priority for encoding.
Doesn't matter whether ti is High Normal Lower Lowes or Idle.

Behaviour: Crash
Action: Changing process priority
Reproducible: Yes
Occurence: Always
Version: 0.6.1.4166 Development Test 1

that this is no longer viable due to rights.

I came across this I think first with Ryan, then Kevin. I looked over the Betas and Pre-Releases, and nothing else is there.

Is the latest version, 0.7.0 rc 2, free of these problems?

I have downloaded this program twice and each time I get a checksum of 089bfecd8d8a41bfe66c4a69468e878c

I have tried to run this on both vista and xp, but program fails to load and displays an error box, with error description "error initializing preference tree".

Is this portable version ever gonna be updated?

I am looking for a .flv converter. Is there something different than this ? since the link is dead, plus the issues it has or had don't seem to be taken care of. I know it's an old post, but this was what I came across while looking.