A recent interview with DivX founder Jérôme Vashist-Rota reveals the certain console domination bids for the video technology landing on the PS3 and Xbox 360. While the PS3 is currently in compliance with DivX standards, Microsoft's Xbox 360 is leaving the codec technology out in the cold. Will the two ever mix?

Encode360 is a video encoder and compression utility that allows you to convert video's to Xbox360 and Zune compatible WMV format. This application has recently had an overhaul and as a result now uses a new video engine. In the past, the widely used FFMPEG encoder engine was used which has now been swapped out with MediaInfo.

Dan, the author, was kind enough to give us some of their his change in video encoding engines. "FFMpeg really was just a stop-gap until something better turned up, and I’m glad to say MediaInfo is doing an impressive job on discovering the details of nearly every file format I throw at it. However, there’s no telling what new problems might be introduced as a result. I haven’t had any, but someone else might. I’ll tackle issues as they arise. Just remember, this is a beta."

Fixes

• Arithmetic error in timerPercentComplete_Tick would occur if WME couldn’t determine the source duration
• Default settings for 802.11b in an unconfigured environment were too high
• Numerous cosmetic and logging bugs

Click "Full Article" for the full list of changes including new additions and change log.

Download: [ Encode360 2.0b5 ]
Download: [ MediaInfo 0.7.4.3 Win Gui ]