May 2001 News Archive

 


May 2001

 

Sunday, May 27, 2001

Surprise surprise, I've finished my Windows Media 8 Encoding guide!  It includes some recommended encoding settings and instructions on frameserving to the Windows Media 8 Encoding Utility.

In addition, I updated the Software page again and made other minor adjustments to various pages on the site.

 

Thursday, May 17, 2001

Microsoft just released version 7.1 of Windows Media Encoder.  It now supports Windows Media 8, but it doesn't appear to support variable bitrate video.  Therefore, you'll have to continue using the command line encoding utility for the best quality.  The link to the new encoder is on my Software page.

I've also added a link to the trail version of the Morgan Multimedia MJPEG codec to the Software page.  The trial version does expire, but it doesn't place a watermark in your video like the PICVideo codec.

 

Monday, May 7, 2001

First of all, I made some minor revisions to the Interlacing page.  Secondly, I've started to work on a section about encoding in Windows Media 8.  Actually, it's mostly just in my head right now, but at least I know what to say.  When I find the time and motivation, I'll see what I can do about writing it up.

 

Friday, May 4, 2001

Hooray!  I've finally updated the site!  As promised long ago, there are new noise reduction filter settings on both of my video processing pages.  In addition, I did some site maintenance and updated some images to reflect the changes in VirtualDub 1.4d.