The Blog of st373n

An update for ReduxEncoder is live now, provides compatibility with Snow Leopard. No other new features yet other than 32/64 bit mode.

ReduxEncoder … The NEW NAME for FilmRedux.

In an effort to distinguish this project from the other FilmRedux clones I have decided  on a new name for it and that is ReduxEncoder, download links are live now, its got a new icon to match its name.

No other major changes yet, the same things still work and the things that didn’t work, still dont! but every effort is being made to get more of the feature set completed, The support binaries are finally in the application bundle so a separate download of those shouldn’t be needed.

A Manual Download of this version is required , the sparkle update mechanism that is used is unable to process updates correctly when an applications title has changed, (that is sparkle’s problem not mine !) once ReduxEncoder is installed updates will function in the usual way. Permanent download link in the footer of the blog.

Currently NOT COMPATIBLE with SNOW LEOPARD but do check back for an update…

Converting a video file to a burnable dvd image is now working. Currently single files only will be processed and turned into a dvd image.  No other options in the dvd setting window have any effect yet but work continues on getting that whole section finished.  Also a couple of toolbar changes, some metadata settings, a tidy up of the included binaries, removal of a framework that wasn’t needed.

The code for the video preview window is now operational and correctly plays video and audio for quicktime compatible files only. currently I have set it at 640 x 360. I may make this user resizable or  perhaps  match the values entered in the advanced settings panel.

Things are moving along nicely, the latest svn of mencoder is now bundled and will be up shortly.

Im compiling up a the latest svn of mencoder to include in the next build of FilmRedux, the current version thats inside the application bundle is now outdated and I have noticed that some of the files that fail to convert in the front-end ie FilmRedux also fail to convert manually from the command line, leading me to believe the one of the issues is with the included mencoder. While doing this I have added the Lame MP3 encoder into the build.

I would like to do away with the separate download of the codec support pack as I hope to get mencoder compiled with either some static libraries this time and include any additionals in a framework inside the bundle but will have to see how it goes.

The code for converting files to wmv format is now ready and is included in build 1.0.3.8.

I have now completed the move of the blog to it’s home here, so add it to your bookmarks and check by for regular updates.

All links to the most current builds can now be found in the downloads section of the footer.

Two pass encoding of files to Apple-device formats now works correctly, previous version were trying to read the wrong log file and then not doing the second pass correctly, this issue has now been addressed.  thank you to all those who noticed and let me know.

I thought i would add conversion to mkv files into filmredux, the functions have been added and a tab view for the options, working on the code now. Found a nice icon for the files.