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FFmpeg 2.5.3 released

FFmpeg 2.5.3 “Bohr”– is the leading multimedia framework, cross-platform solution that is used to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play any audio or video files. It includes libavcodec – the leading audio/video codec library. The most important new features are AVFoundation screen-grabbing support, animated WebP decoding support, and Animated PNG support. In addition, many exciting features for video streaming are also implemented, including MPEG-DASH fragmenting muxer, HEVC RTP payload muxer, and UDP Lite support.

Installing Windows Server 2008 (64bit) Domain Controller in an existing Windows Server 2003 (32bit) domain

If this domain controller is the first Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller in the forest, you must prepare the forest for Windows Server 2008 R2 by extending the schema (that is, by running adprep /forestprep) on the schema operations master if this has not already been done. If this domain controller is the first Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller in a Windows Server 2003 domain, you must prepare the domain by running adprep /domainprep on the infrastructure master.

Configure Active Directory DNS Server 2008R2

Active Directory DNS role by default was installed during the installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory in my earlier post. DNS is comprised of two zones “Forward Lookup Zone – Resolves hostname to IP address” and “Reverse Lookup Zone – Resolves IP address to hostname”. In this post I will configure the Reverse Lookup Zone which isn’t configured by default. Requirements: Ensure Active Directory had been installed. Refer to this post

Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory

[table id=1 /] When a server is promoted to a Domain Controller, the following event logs are created “DFS Replication, Directory Service, DNS Server and File Replication Service“. As best practice (but not compulsory), set the Maximum Log size for each of the above events to 20mb.

Installing Windows Server 2008 R2

Requirement:If your computer has less than the “minimum” requirements, you will not be able to install this product correctly. Please refer to the Microsoft article for more information – Click hereInstallation Guide:Post Installation Guide:After installing Windows Server 2008/2008R2, the following should be carried out.