Where we’re at with EncodeHD
It seems I’ve gotten a bit of decent feedback since my last post, which is always great to hear. Not much mind you, but enough to make me keep working on EncodeHD, a bit. 
Sometime soon, I’m going to release a very early beta. I’d normally hang on until I had something more feature-complete, but I want to test the waters early enough with this for two reasons. Firstly, I want to make sure that the basics work as expected. If there’s big flaws, there’s no point bolting on new features until I get them solved first. And secondly, I want to see what the uptake is like. If there isn’t enough interest, then there’s no real point in continuing with the project.
I’ve also been thinking a lot about the websites design and the forums etc. It seems that things aren’t as organised as they should be. So I’m undertaking (another!) redesign, with more focus on finding the right information, quickly. I realise that people aren’t keeping up to date with blog posts and commenting on posts from ages ago saying things like ‘is this the latest version?’ when it’s very much not. So my plan is a fairly big overhaul on the main site, incorporating FAQs and more importantly, scrapping the forums and relying on comments and a bug-tracking system instead – where I can be a bit more pro-active on dealing with issues (because I haven’t really been using the forums).
Let me know what you think.
Dan
All sounds good matey – Alpha 0.61 getting used on some trick files right now to test results.
This App is already at an awesome stage. So much nicer to copy PS3 Compatible vids to the console so I can keep the PC turn off.
Saves the environment too !
Great work! After buying an iPhone I haven’t found a decent way to encode my tv shows. Keep up the great work and let me know if I can help.
Glad to hear that you are working on a new version of the Encode 360 program. I use it all the time. It works perfectly for what I need, it is nice to know that there will be some updates in the future.
Something useful that I would use would be an automatic mode that can take a file and re-encode it to xbox WMV with the same settings including bit rate. This way a file could be automatically encoded after download.
Keep up the good work..
Duncan
P.s.
How do I get onto the beta??