XMediaRecode converter

I have found an excellent tool to make MULTIPLE and WELL DONE conversion of video files. It’s XMediaRecode. It’s a FREEWARE program for Windows only (;o; sigh!!!).

I’m glad to have finally found a solution. After a lot of time spent in searching an Avidemux alternative. Mac version has stopped to v2.44 -from ages-, and it has some nasty bugs (ex.audio copy of x264 sources is buggy, result audio is always out of sync, and its batch mode is practically unusable).

With this program I can convert my video files in H.264/AAC quickly. Target files are excellent. Good as done with Avidemux for Mac, maybe better.

NOTE: if you want to use Avidemux anyway, you can fix the audio of created mp4 files using the free tool Subler. Import the converted video stream, import the original AAC audio stream and save both in a new file. Voila’, the generated MP4 have the audio synced. But what a waste of time…

XMediaRecode permits queues of many video files and a selection of a common target format for all videos.

• simple interface with options well distributed on the tabs
• advanced options
• options are memorized for the next restart
• can load/save modified profiles (many are present)
• very few bugs (only on the interface, not on the conversion process)
• convert a huge amount of video formats
• video conversions are done FULLY, no frame LOST during conversions as other buggy OSX tools (ex. iVideoConverter or Handbrake)
• batch operations can be configured QUICKLY
• built with a recent version of x264 library

But, as other windows software, it must be run inside a virtual machine so it doesn’t run at full speed 8(.
Patience. I’m satisfied anyway.

 

Filtering Flickr photos

Photo filtering in Flickr site is limited. And also very buggy.

Filtering by user name is nearly impossible and the setup filters cannot be memorized. So it’s not possible to prevent photo display of unwanted users with photos not interesting.

A solution can be offered by AdMuncher, a program to filter Internet pages, by Hurray Mups. It’s very small compared to other products, efficient and fully customizable.

This is a rude method, you remove ALL that user photos, also good ones … but there are plenty of other good photos on Flickr and with this method you can gain time browsing photo pages (you will spend all your life viewing them without showing all files present on their Internet servers).

Other filter programs (Foxy, AdBlock, etc) have limited options, are not customizable and does not work properly (for example in Flickr). AdMuncher is ALL worth buying and using.

I’m surfing photos from Japan, I’ve done a search in TAGS sorted by date only for the “japan” word and between all results i have filtered subjectively what I dislike. Just add unwanted user photo links in AdMuncher to remove the photos from the browsing pages.

Example:
Add link ————–> photos/wallsandafrown/
With action ————> Remove links to URL

With this program I filter very well:

• users with smaller photo (less than 1024 pixels) that cannot be visible, even with external script support
• users with a high percentage of bad lighted, blurred or incomprehensible photos
• users that mainly post photos of monotonous things (ex. dolls, flowers, birds, people using flickr as an on line catalog)
• users with dozens of photos of evening concerts (mainly all blurred 8o)
• users that post a torrent of photos all together filling dozens and dozens of pages on the same day (flicker filter does not always work)
• users with extremely modified photos (ex. HDR)
• users with wrong photo tags (ex. tagged with china and japan together)

Just try.