About Media Encoder

About Media Encoder:

Windows Media Encoder 9.0 is an easy-to-use and powerful software released by Microsoft to create multimedia stream files. It allows you to record images on your own, recording images from an image capturing device or desktop, and converting file formats. The main features are: easy-to-use interface and Wizard, which makes it easier to set and create a video. It is used to provide on-site playback on the network or for playback. It also supports multiple sources and allows you to switch sources immediately, it can also monitor the data during encoding, such as the image size and data traffic. Windows Media Encoder 9.0 supports de-interlacing, inverse telecine, and screen capture, providing better output quality, from 320*240 * 60fps to 640*480 * 30fps, you can capture up to 30 GB of files, including winnov, ATI, Hauppauge, and USB video cameras.

In this section, you will learn the following:

Use Media Encoder for format conversion Use Media Encoder to capture screen or area

Convert files in other formats into Stream files:

First, start Media Encoder from "program"> "Windows Media"> "Windows Media Encoder" in the "Start" menu. the startup interface is as follows:

On the page in figure 1 or click "new session", click "" in the pop-up window, and then click "OK". A wizard window shown below will appear:

Enter the file name (including path) of the multimedia file to be converted in the input box under "Source File ), you can also click the Browse button on the right to open a common file dialog box and select a multimedia file. In the input box under "output file", the file name (including path) of the stream file to be generated is automatically generated ), if you want to change the path or name of the stream file to be generated, you can also click the Browse button on the right to open a universal file dialog box and select a stream file to be generated.

After completing the preceding operations, click "Next". The following selection window appears:

You only need to click "Next". The following selection window appears on the screen:

In the middle of this window, there is a pop-up selection box, which lists the various transmission rates available for the generated stream file. It determines how many users can watch or listen to the stream file on the network at the same time, it also determines the quality of Stream files. Generally, the lower the transmission rate (minimum 28.8 Kbps), the more people can watch or listen to at the same time, but the worse the quality; the higher the transmission rate (maximum 2 mkbps) the fewer users can watch or listen to the video at the same time, but the higher the quality. If your LAN is 100 m or above, we recommend that you set the transmission rate at around kbps, so that more than people can watch or listen at the same time, and the quality is better.

After setting the transmission rate of the stream file, click "Next" to display the streaming File Attribute input window on the screen:

This window is used to enter the title, author, copyright, grade, description, and other content of the stream file to be generated. You can enter the content based on the actual situation, you can also click "Next" or "Next" without entering the information. The setting information report window will appear on the screen:

If these settings are correct, click "finish" or "finish" to generate a streaming file:

You do not need to perform any operations in this window. After the stream file is generated, the following result report window is displayed on the screen:

You only need to click "close" to complete the conversion.

When you want to exit or start another conversion task after the conversion is completed, a prompt window will appear on the screen:

This is to simplify the preceding settings when you ask if you want to save the conversion task you just made so that the conversion can be performed later. If you click the "yes" button, you need to enter or select a file to be saved in the pop-up universal file dialog box on the screen and click the "OK" button. Next time you convert the same file, you can click the open option under the main interface menu session to select the task file, so that you can directly enter the generate stream file window, click the start button in the lower-right corner to start the conversion.

Use Media Encoder to capture screen or screen area:

Sometimes, we need to capture some operation processes to give students an image. There is also a situation where a certain format (such as rmvb) when it is difficult to use software to capture video clips, we can consider capturing the screen area to obtain the video clips.

The procedure is as follows:

1. Click "new session", select "" in the pop-up window, and click "OK ".

2. In the pop-up dialog box, there are three options: "specific window", "screen area", and "whole screen". Select a job you want and click "Next ". Here we select the second "screen area ".

3. In the dialog box 2-2, ask us to give the coordinates of the area to be captured. We can enter coordinates and height and width, or use the "screen area selection" button to select. Click. The Media Encoder window is minimized, and the mouse changes. Then, move the mouse to the upper left corner of the area to be captured, hold down the left mouse button, drag the mouse to the lower right corner of the captured area, and release the left mouse button. Select the capture area and click Next.

4. In the pop-up "output file" dialog box, save the captured video file. Click "Next ".

5. In the displayed "set and select" dialog box, click "Next". The dialog box that appears later is similar to "format conversion", as shown in:

Click Finish ".