Comparison of video encoders
Encyclopedia
General information
| Name | Company | Stable Version | License | Cost | Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compressor | Apple | 3.05 | $1,300 (part of Final Cut Studio video editing software suite) | ||||
| Handbrake | Open Source Community | 0.93 | |||||
| Avidemux2 | Open Source Community | 2.4 |
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-1 MPEG-1 is a standard for lossy compression of video and audio. It is designed to compress VHS-quality raw digital video and CD audio down to 1.5 Mbit/s without excessive quality loss, making video CDs, digital cable/satellite TV and digital audio broadcasting possible.Today, MPEG-1 has become... |
MPEG-2 MPEG-2 MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available storage media and transmission... |
MPEG-4 MPEG-4 MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual digital data. It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group under the formal standard ISO/IEC... ASP (MPEG-4 part 2) |
MPEG-4 MPEG-4 MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual digital data. It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group under the formal standard ISO/IEC... AVC (H.264) (MPEG-4 Part 10) |
WMV | RealVideo RealVideo RealVideo is a suite of proprietary video compression formats developed by RealNetworks – the specific format changes with the version. It was first released in 1997 and is at version 10. RealVideo is supported on many platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and several mobile... |
Theora Theora Theora is a free lossy video compression format. It is developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and distributed without licensing fees alongside their other free and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg container.... |
Dirac Dirac (codec) Dirac is an open and royalty-free video compression format, specification and system developed by BBC Research at the BBC. Schrödinger and dirac-research are open and royalty-free software implementations of Dirac... |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compressor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | With Plugins | ? | No | No |
| Handbrake | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No |
Supported Export Codecs
| Name | MPEG-1 MPEG-1 MPEG-1 is a standard for lossy compression of video and audio. It is designed to compress VHS-quality raw digital video and CD audio down to 1.5 Mbit/s without excessive quality loss, making video CDs, digital cable/satellite TV and digital audio broadcasting possible.Today, MPEG-1 has become... |
MPEG-2 MPEG-2 MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available storage media and transmission... |
MPEG-4 MPEG-4 MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual digital data. It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group under the formal standard ISO/IEC... ASP (MPEG-4 part 2) |
MPEG-4 MPEG-4 MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual digital data. It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group under the formal standard ISO/IEC... AVC (H.264) (MPEG-4 Part 10) |
WMV | RealVideo RealVideo RealVideo is a suite of proprietary video compression formats developed by RealNetworks – the specific format changes with the version. It was first released in 1997 and is at version 10. RealVideo is supported on many platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and several mobile... |
Theora Theora Theora is a free lossy video compression format. It is developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and distributed without licensing fees alongside their other free and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg container.... |
Dirac Dirac (codec) Dirac is an open and royalty-free video compression format, specification and system developed by BBC Research at the BBC. Schrödinger and dirac-research are open and royalty-free software implementations of 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 | No |
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