zaterdag 15 januari 2011

New version of MKV to AppleTV tool

New version of FastMKV2MP4 available (v0.3).
Added batch queue support.
Selected mkv files with their relevant tracks are written to a queue and processed by the mp4 jobserver


Download zip file:


INSTALLATION
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Extract the zip file in eg : C:\video\FastMKV2MP4.
You'll need the Microsoft .NET runtine installed. For licensing reasons I cannot distribute the conversion tools used by this program. To my knowledge all of these files/tools are free to use.
So you will need to download these yourselves:
- mp4box : http://www.videohelp.com/tools/mp4box (works with version 0.4.6)
- ac3filter  : http://ac3filter.net/projects/tools/releases (works with version 1.63b)
- eac3to    : http://www.videohelp.com/tools/eac3to (works with version 3.24)
- mkvtoolnix : http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/win32/ (works with version 4.5.0)
- neroaac : http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nerodigital-nero-aac-codec.php (only one version available)

The files need to be extracted in a subdirectory of the folder where you put the FastMKV2MP4.exe
eg :
C:\video\FastMKV2MP4\FastMKV2MP4.exe
C:\video\FastMKV2MP4\MP4Jobserver.exe
C:\video\FastMKV2MP4\mp4box\... put all files of mp4box here
C:\video\FastMKV2MP4\ac3filter\... put all files of ac3filter here
C:\video\FastMKV2MP4\eac3to\... put all files of eac3to here
C:\video\FastMKV2MP4\mkvtoolnix\... put all files of mkvtoolnix here
C:\video\FastMKV2MP4\neroaac\... put all files of nero aac here


OLD VERSION
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Previous version can be found at:


zondag 2 januari 2011

MKV To AppleTV 2G conversion (no reencoding required)


FastMKV2MP4 is a shell around freeware tools to produce an MP4 that should be playable on the apple TV
Features :
- Conversion without reencoding the videostream (faster than handbrake)
- Supports AC3 track (!!!)
- Supports softcoded subtitles (!!!)
- Single click solution

limitations :
- If videostream bitrate is above appletv accepted limit no reencoding will be done, so this might result in a non usable MP4, go to handbrake to reencode in this case
- No support for picture subs, only text based subs (srt)
-Audio conversion currently tested with DTS, AC3 en AAC tracks in the MKV, not tested with DTS-HD and other formats
- Video only tested with H264 track in the MKV
- The program is not at all error prone and does not clean up the file mess it needs to go through the conversion
- probably many more ;-)


DOWNLOAD
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FastMKV2MP4.exe

INSTALLATION
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You'll need the Microsoft .NET runtine installed. For licensing reasons I cannot distribute the conversion tools used by this program. To my knowledge all of these files/tools are free to use.
So you will need to download these yourselves:
- mp4box : http://www.videohelp.com/tools/mp4box (latest version required, because of AC3 trouble with older versions)
- ac3filter  : http://ac3filter.net/projects/tools/releases
- eac3to    : http://www.videohelp.com/tools/eac3to
- mkvtoolnix : http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/win32/
- neroaac : http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nerodigital-nero-aac-codec.php

The files need to be extracted in a subdirectory of the folder where you put the FastMKV2MP4.exe
eg :
C:\video\FastMKV2MP4\FastMKV2MP4.exe
C:\video\FastMKV2MP4\mp4box\... put all files of mp4box here
C:\video\FastMKV2MP4\ac3filter\... put all files of ac3filter here
C:\video\FastMKV2MP4\eac3to\... put all files of eac3to here
C:\video\FastMKV2MP4\mkvtoolnix\... put all files of mkvtoolnix here
C:\video\FastMKV2MP4\neroaac\... put all files of nero aac here

That's it, guess I'll here it if you run into a problem

zaterdag 1 januari 2011

Ocean Rendering on the iPhone 3GS

A demo project on the iPhone in order to test OpenGL ES 2
It is based on a simple vertex + fragment shader (gpu)
almost no cpu consumption