Comparison of video encoders

Comparison of video encoders

Contents

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

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

  1. ^ Updated HandBrake Encodes More Than DVDs "convert them to MP4, MKV, AVI, or OGM files"
  2. ^ Handbrake Monday, Nov 23, 2009 "OGG/OGM: HandBrake's OGM muxer is just as out of date.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 ..."
  3. ^ 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 HandBrake's OGM muxer was just as out of date as its AVI muxer.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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