Dan Cunningham

EncodeHD 1.2.214 Released

Dan Cunningham — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:41:53 +0000

Another pretty minor update, but always best to have the latest and greatest right? Actually, it’s kinda important for X360 users

NEW: Added Dutch as a preferred audio language
CHANGE: Stream copying is no longer done on X360. Was causing too many problems
CHANGE: Reverted back to older MP4Box version to fix Auto-splitting issue
CHANGE: Updated FFmpeg to 24623
CHANGE: Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.34

Download available in the Media Tools > EncodeHD section.

Update 18/08/2010: Github now updated with the latest source code

EncodeHD 1.2.209 Released

Dan Cunningham — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:15:13 +0000

This is just a small feature enhancement and bugfix release for a few things that cropped in the last build. Hopefully this sorts out some of the issues that I’ve been getting mails about

Changelog:

NEW: Added support for HTC Desire
NEW: Added support for Nokia N900
NEW: Added Hebrew as a preferred language type
CHANGE: Revert back to 2-channel down-sampling. Seems to work most of the time and 5.1 AAC caused device incompatibilities. Better to fail upfront than after encoding
FIX: Double conversion error could occur in locales where the decimal is ,

Download available in the Media Tools > EncodeHD section. And don’t forget to download the faac encoder library!

Update 11/08/2010: GitHub has now been updated with the latest source code.

Enjoy!

EncodeHD 1.2.206.0 Released

Dan Cunningham — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:29:27 +0000

I initially planned to just add support for a few new hardware models, but then I kinda got caught up in some audio issues that I really wanted to resolve. I then discovered that stream copying is now working in FFmpeg for H.264 video, so I’ve enabled this. Basically, if you’ve got, say, a 720p MKV and you output to a device that supports 720p or higher, the video stream is just remuxed into the new file instead of having to be re-encoded. This gives HUGE performance gains. In one sample file I use, converting for use on the X360 is down from 6 minutes to around 15 seconds!

The major underlying change to note is that since the ‘libfaac’ audio encoder is no longer considered to be GPL compliant, that meant either using the new experimental AAC encoder in FFmpeg which has some fairly huge quality issues right now, or keeping EncodeHD GPL compliant and letting people download the libfaac library separately. I’ve opted to go this route. So before you try to run EncodeHD, please ensure that you have downloaded the library from here under the ‘faac encoder’ section, and place the files in the EncodeHD folder. Otherwise you’ll get an error when EncodeHD starts.

Here’s the full changelog:

NEW: Support for Apple iPhone 4 & iPad
NEW: Support for HTC EVO 4G
NEW: H.264 video stream copying when specific device adjustments (resolution / bitrate) are not required, giving dramatic performance improvements (no need to re-encode)
CHANGE: Switched to Gianluigi Tiesi’s FFmpeg builds to avail of dynamic loading of libfaac (r23591). This is an additional component that is not GPL compliant and needs to be downloaded separately from here under the ‘faac encoder’ section
CHANGE: No longer try to force 2 channel audio from 5.1 audio streams. FFmpeg generally fails. Instead, try 5.1 AAC and let the device downmix
CHANGE: Increased maximum audio bitrates for AppleTV, PS3, X360 and WDTV to 320kbps
CHANGE: Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.33
CHANGE: Updated MP4Box to 0.4.6 Dev 12/06/2010

Download available in the Media Tools > EncodeHD section.

Enjoy!

Software Compliance Tool 1.0.90.0 Released

Dan Cunningham — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:31:37 +0000

Hi all,

I’ve implemented a number of small changes to SCT to make it better capable of handling automatic application removal and resolve issues with certain types of uninstallers.

Head on over to the SCT section to download it. Here’s what’s changed

CHANGE: Reverse Application Enumeration to ensure that Windows Installer is processed first
CHANGE: Encapsulate paths as required
FIX: Resolve issues with uninstallers of type RunDLL32
FIX: Resolve issues with arguments of type /? and -?
FIX: Exception could be incorrectly thrown when the uninstall string contained quotation marks

Dan

EncodeHD updated on GitHub

Dan Cunningham — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:18:05 +0000

It was pointed out to me yesterday that EncodeHD wasn’t updated on GitHub to the latest 1.1.182.0 release. Ths has now been rectified. Sorry about that folks.

It can be found here: http://github.com/sintaxasn/EncodeHD