__NOTOC__ MediaCoder is a proprietary

transcoding Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital conversion of one encoding to another, such as for video data files, audio files (e.g., MP3, WAV), or character encoding (e.g., UTF-8, ISO/IEC 8859). This is usually done in cases where a target d ...

program for Microsoft Windows, developed by Stanley Huang since 2005.

Features

MediaCoder uses various open-source (and several proprietary) audio and video

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s to transcode media files to different audio/video formats. Common uses for the program include

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, file type conversion, and extraction of audio from video files. Many formats are supported, including

MP3 MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany, with support from other digital scientists in the United States and elsewhere. Origin ...

Vorbis Vorbis is a free and open-source software project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The project produces an audio coding format and software reference encoder/decoder (codec) for lossy audio compression. Vorbis is most commonly used in conj ...

Advanced Audio Coding Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves higher sound quality than MP3 encoders at the same bit rate. AAC has been stan ...

(AAC),

Windows Media Audio Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs. The ...

(WMA),

RealAudio RealAudio, or also spelled as Real Audio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995. It uses a variety of audio codecs, ranging from low-bitrate formats that can be used over dialup modems, to high-fi ...

, WAV, and others. The program uses a wizard to create files, but that can also be adjusted manually by the drag-and-drop function.

Reception

MediaCoder was a nominee of ''SourceForge.NET 2007 Community Choice Award of Best Project for Multimedia'' along with Audacity,

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and FFDShow.

Distribution

Prior to 2008, MediaCoder was a free and open-source software application and was available on

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. In December 2009, Stanley Huang announced that the project is no longer hosted on SourceForge and no longer open-source.

References

External links

* {{Official website Video conversion software Audio format converters Windows-only freeware