We’re now a little over a month on from our initial release, and the response has been incredible. We use Google Analytics on the site to keep track on how many people visit, and we thought it would be interesting to share some stats.

Since the launch, we’ve had roughly 30,000 unique visitors from 116 different countries. Our forums have over 500 posts, and we’ve expanded the number of custom DLDI patches to cover most of the popular homebrew cards, with many members of the homebrew community contributing compiled patches. Team Cyclops, the developers behind the CycloDS Evolution card were even kind enough to provide an updated patch themselves.

To give an idea of the makeup of the homebrew community operating systems, 82% of the encoder downloads were for Windows, 10% for Linux and 8% for Mac OS X. I’m pleased that we’ve managed to achieve a cross-platform release (even if the Windows encoder’s reliance on .NET 3.5 has been frustrating), as there is a sizeable audience of Mac and Linux users. If any of our readers are handy with compiling cross-platform code on Windows, please get in touch on the forums.

Also in the forums is a guide on getting the best encode quality created by ekolimits. This demonstrates how you can select the best command-line options when encoding a video. Lastly, user zanzer7 has created a Windows GUI encoder tool , for those of you who don’t like to delve into cmd.exe.

We have a feature requests thread if people want to suggest ideas for future releases, and we also have a few outstanding issues with audio quality and video codec support, and they are being tracked in a few threads in the forums. We are looking into these issues, but can’t give any current indication of fixes.

Lastly, for those of you who commented on the original post but never saw it go live, I apologise. The moderation queue was not set up to email me when comments were pending, and were approved much later.