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media encoders for mac?
by pubchum on May 7, 2007 at 10:22:56 pm

Is windows media encoder 9 my best option for live streaming?
Is there anything comparable for mac?

Gracias,
Mike

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Re: media encoders for mac?
by mike velte on May 8, 2007 at 10:53:24 am

Windows Media Encoder 9 can do as well as any other PC encoder for encoding and pushing your video to a server...plus it is free. Biggest draw back is no batch encoding.

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Re: media encoders for mac?
by bbalser on May 8, 2007 at 9:47:05 pm

Flip4Mac
Compressor

I use H.264 and get great results and compatablity.

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Re: media encoders for mac?
by Ben Waggoner on Jun 10, 2007 at 3:12:37 am

There aren't any native WMV live encoders for Mac, but Windows Media Encoder and other software live encoders work just fine on an Intel Mac booted into Windows via Boot Camp.

I don't recommend using Parallels for live encoding due to its performance limitations (among other things, it only runs on one core).

My compression blog: http://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/

My compression class at Stanford: http://digitalmediaacademy.org/courses/video-compression-training.html

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