Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. MediaCoder is a
freeware audio and video batch transcoder for Windows and Wine. It has
been under development by Stanley Huang since 2005. In 2009, MediaCoder
started to be branded under the name of Broad Intelligence Technologies
product. 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. 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, AAC, Windows Media Audio, RealAudio, WAV, H.264,
MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-2, AVI, CD, and DVD.
