Comparison of video encoders
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[edit] General information
| 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 |
[edit] 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 |
|
[edit] Supported Import Codecs
[edit] 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 |
[edit] See also
[edit] 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- ^ Handbrake Monday, Nov 23, 2009 "OGG/OGM: HandBrake's OGM muxer is just as out of date.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 HandBrake's OGM muxer was just as out of date as its AVI muxer.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"
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