Comments on: What to do about EncodeHD / WMA?

By: rothgar

rothgar — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:17:23 +0000

I tried replying to this a while ago but my comment got blocked because I was at work. Then I just kinda forgot about the blog post. I always love the option for open source software and I think migration assistant could benefit from it. I don’t know if I would be able to even know what to do with the source myself (seeing as I haven’t programmed anything for years) but it would still be a neat opportunity.
I don’t know what else could even be added to the software (you have done a great job), but it is amazing what the open source community thinks of.

By: v_lestat

v_lestat — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:29:10 +0000

dan i too am a happy user of encodeHD but i honestly use encode360 more, for one good reason 5.1+ audio.
i have harped before about simply making Encode360 par tof Encode HD and i feel that it is still something that needs to be done.

there is NO reason to continue updating the WMV9 encoder base simply because there is nothing to update really, the updates come from updates to the mkv structure and audio structure. i never understood why you stopped working with encode360 only to put out a program that can not do one of the biggest and most saught after features of encode360, the multi channel audio for WMV files.
i honestly havent looked in a while but i know of no other program that can do that.

sure i can do a 2:1 ratio of mp4 movies to wmv in terms of storage size but that doesnt matter to me all that much if i can get 5.1 audio.
i dont like seeing HD content but listening to 2 channel audio… it just ruins it.

dont quit for anyone but yourself, and if you decide to make it open source, i would do it, maybe someone else can get their hands dirty and give you ideas for how to improve your version of the program.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:00:18 +0000

Dan.

Thanks for all your time and hard work creating EncodeHD. I use this program regularly for my video encoding needs, and it has yet to fail me. I’m even using it as I write this post! For what it’s purpose is, it works flawlessly and I’m VERY pleased with it.

I’m almost always in favor open source, and this is no exception. I love the program and would hate to see it fade away.

I’m a novice programmer myself in my second year of college. As my skills increase I would like to someday contribute to EncodeHD and perhaps any other projects you open source.

Thanks again for all your hard work, Dan!

By: Idel

Idel — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:01:03 +0000

Dan, I use EncodeHD everyday to re-encode video and audio files and it’s a great tool, by far the best and the easiest to use of many alternatives out there (both free and paid) for Windows.

While I’d like to see you keep upgrading the tool, I understand that time may not be there for you. I’d be of the idea of you open sourcing it if you don’t want or can’t keep working on it as you’d like to. That way your great work won’t be lost and people can pick up some work and improve or update the tool as needed.

Thanks again for your work on this great tool, it does not go unnoticed!

By: Ogre

Ogre — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:40:33 +0000

Hey, well I didn’t comment before cuz I told you how I feel on Twitter. As a general rule, I’d say try to open source as much of everything you can. The more code out there the better the community becomes.