With the evolution of technology, the quality of video is also increasing rapidly. Despite the amplification of storage capacity to hold high quality video, the demand for video transcoder, converter, or encoder has also increased. The reasons are quite obvious because every one hasn’t got that much storage size in his device to keep that huge amount of data. The devices may vary from personal computers to mobile gadgets which have got their own apparatus to deal with specific kind of video formats in small sizes. Besides the user may want to send videos to some other place and it is possible that the carrying medium has not that much bandwidth or the destination is short of disk space.
In such scenarios, the need of a video format converter arises. Minicoder is a freeware, elegant and open source tool to convert
most common video formats to each other. It has been designed to be used by a user who is totally ignorant about encoding process. You don’t need to worry about multiple streams like chapters, subtitles, or audios.
The Video formats
- MKV, OGM, VOB, AVS, AVI, WMV, MP4,X264, H264, XVID, DIVX, MPEG-1/2/4, or DVD.
- MKV, MP4, AVI,X264, Divx, Theora.
can be converted to
Minicoder takes the full control of encoding process. You just have to select the video files to be converted in the Input Tab. You can also choose a task to perform after conversion like Shut Down or Hibernate from “When Done” menu.
In the Settings tab, you can view and alter the default conversion parameters.
- In video option’s section , the user can make a choice between different qualities, and codec. The required output file size and bit rate can also be modified.
- The audio option’s section let you audio bit rate and codec.
- The container can be chosen among a list of Matroska, MP4, and AVI.
- Filters gives a chance to vary height/width, noise, and sharpness of the video
The options tab gives you the right to assign output directory and process priority. The user can also ignore, audio, subtitle and chapters in encoding process according to the requirements.
It is a beta release so you may face bugs. Before you use Minicoder, you must install AVISynth.
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I was looking for such kind of a software , is it spyware free?
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Sure, it is open source and spyware frree. I have also tested it myself.