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by Darksaber11
Sat Jun 13, 2009 10:12 am
Forum: Generic Discussions
Topic: The Encoding Thread Seems to be Blocked
Replies: 2
Views: 12958

The Encoding Thread Seems to be Blocked

While I was converting a AVI (Xvid/AC-3) to MP4 (H.264/AAC) on the third pass, I got the standard "the encoding thread seems to be blocked, blah blah blah, if another program may be accessing the stream, blah blah blah." Now I've run into this error several times since upgrading to Windows 7 RC1, an...
by Darksaber11
Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:04 pm
Forum: Generic Discussions
Topic: Do AVIs Suck?
Replies: 2
Views: 6330

Personally I don't really like Media Player Classic, but I'll give it a try in this case. I've already done a lot of reading on the technical differences between formats (including that wikipedia article) and what I'm looking for is a more subjective opinion.
by Darksaber11
Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:57 am
Forum: Generic Discussions
Topic: Do AVIs Suck?
Replies: 2
Views: 6330

Do AVIs Suck?

I originally acquired MediaCoder to convert the various video files I have into AVIs so that I could play them on multiple computers without worrying about having the appropriate codecs and players. Since then however, I have been doing some reading about media containers and codecs and it seems to ...