- Comparison of video encoders
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Name Company Stable Version License Cost Linux Mac OS X Windows Compressor Apple 3.05 Proprietary $1,300 (part of Final Cut Studio video editing software suite) No Yes No Handbrake Open Source Community 0.93 GPL Free Yes Yes Yes Avidemux2 Open Source Community 2.4 GPL Free Yes Yes Yes Features
Name Batch encoding Hardware Acceleration Distributed Encoding Filters Resize Watermark Crop Compressor Yes Specialty Matrox Cards only Yes Audio/Video Yes Yes Yes Handbrake Yes No No Detelecine, Deinterlace, Denoise, Deblock, Decomb Yes No Yes Supported Import Codecs
Name MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 ASP (MPEG-4 part 2) MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) (MPEG-4 Part 10) WMV RealVideo Theora Dirac Compressor Yes Yes Yes Yes With Plugins ? No No Handbrake Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes[clarification needed] No Supported Export Codecs
Name MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 ASP (MPEG-4 part 2) MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) (MPEG-4 Part 10) WMV RealVideo Theora Dirac Compressor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes* No No No Handbrake No No Yes Yes No No OGM up to 0.9.3, OGM dropped in 0.9.4 but still outputs Theora and Vorbis to MK4 containers[1][2][3] No See also
References
- ^ Updated HandBrake Encodes More Than DVDs "convert them to MP4, MKV, AVI, or OGM files"
- ^ Handbrake Monday, Nov 23, 2009 "OGG/OGM: HandBrake's OGM muxer is just as out of date. It hasn't been actively maintained in years ... For patent-free muxing, HandBrake still has Matroska ..."
- ^ SupportFAQ "Why did you drop OGM output? HandBrake's OGM muxer was just as out of date as its AVI muxer. ... For patent-free muxing, HandBrake still has Matroska"
Related lists on other projects
- m:Open Source Toolset - short sections on Audio editing and Video editing
- Software - short lists of Ogg audio and video editors
- Help:Converting video - tools for manipulating audio and video
Categories:- Video editing software
- Multimedia software stubs
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