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MediaCoder 
MediaCoder default GUIOriginal author(s) Stanley Huang Developer(s) Broad Intelligence Technologies Stable release 2011 R6 5166 / 11 June 2011 Written in C++ and XML[citation needed] Operating system Microsoft Windows Platform IA-32 and x86-64 Type Transcoding License Adware and nagware[1] Website mediacoderhq.com MediaCoder is a transcoding program for Microsoft Windows. It has been developed by Stanley Huang since 2005.
MediaCoder uses various open source audio and video codecs, among several proprietary codecs and tools to transcode different audio/video formats and has many extra features. Common uses for the program include compression, file type conversion and extraction of audio from video files. Many formats are supported, including MP3, Vorbis, Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), Windows Media Audio (WMA), RealAudio, WAV, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-2, Audio Video Interleave (AVI), Video CD and DVD-Video.
MediaCoder is free of charge and is supported by bundling OpenCandy software recommendation service in its installer. There are no ads in the software GUI, although by default a web page containing ads is loaded on every startup. This behavior qualifies the program as adware.
Prior to 2008, MediaCoder was a free and open-source software application and was available on SourceForge.[2] MediaCoder was a nominee of SourceForge.NET 2007 Community Choice Award of Best Project for Multimedia along with Audacity, InkScape and FFDShow.[3] On December 2009 however, Stanley Huang announced that the project is no longer hosted on SourceForge and no longer open-source.[4] Since then, it has become a proprietary adware for which no source code is available.[5][1]
Following these changes, on 10 June 2009, a ticket was opened on FFmpeg's development site, alleging "Possible MediaCoder GPL violation". Although the author of MediaCoder participated in the discussion, the issue is yet to be resolved.[6] Since then MediaCoder was listed on the "Hall of Shame" page on FFmpeg project page that names the projects that violate the (L)GPL.[7]
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References
- ^ a b "Download MediaCoder". Softpedia. SoftNews NET SRL. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Encoders-Converter-DIVX-Related/MediaCoder.shtml. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ^ "Media Coder". SourceForge. Geeknet, Inc. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mediacoder/. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
- ^ "SourceForge.NET 2007 Community Choice Awards". SourceForge. Geeknet, Inc. 2007. http://sourceforge.net/blog/cca07/. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ Huang, Stanley (19 December 2009). "MediaCoder is no longer hosted on SourceForge.net from this day on". Broad Intelligence Technologies. http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/mediacoder-is-no-longer-hosted-on-sourceforge-net/. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ "EULA". MediaCoder Wiki. Broad Intelligence Technologies. 10 July 2009. http://wiki.mediacoderhq.com/index.php/EULA. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ "Issue 1162: Possible MediaCoder GPL violation". Libav issue tracker. LScube. 18 December 2010. http://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue1162. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ "Hall of Shame". FFmpeg.org. http://www.ffmpeg.org/shame.html. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
Further reading
- (German) Markus Mandau (27 March 2009), Vergleichstest: Alleskonvertierer, Chip.de (round-up article)
- (German) M. Mandau and M. Humpa (6 June 2009), Konvertieren: Nero vs. MediaCoder, Chip.de
External links
Categories:- Video conversion software
- Audio format converters
- Windows-only freeware
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