VidCoder is a DVD/Blu-ray ripping and video transcoding application for Windows. It uses HandBrake as its encoding engine. Calling directly into the HandBrake library gives it a more rich UI than the official HandBrake Windows GUI. VidCoder can rip DVDs but does not defeat the CSS encryption found in most commercial DVDs.
You’ll need the .NET 6 Desktop Runtime. If you don’t have it, VidCoder will prompt you to download and install it. The Portable version is self-contained and does not require any .NET Runtime to be installed.
You do not need to install HandBrake for VidCoder to work.
Feature list:
- Multi-threaded
- MP4, MKV containers
- Completely integrated encoding pipeline: everything is in one process and no huge intermediate temporary files
- H.264, H.265, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, VP8, Theora video
- Hardware-accelerated encoding with AMD VCE, Nvidia NVENC and Intel QuickSync
- AAC, MP3, Vorbis, AC3, FLAC audio encoding and AAC/AC3/MP3/DTS/DTS-HD passthrough
- Target bitrate, size or quality for video
- 2-pass encoding
- Decomb, detelecine, deinterlace, rotate, reflect, chroma smooth, colorspace filters
- Powerful batch encoding with simultaneous encodes
- Customizable Pickers to automatically pick audio and subtitle tracks, destination, titles and more
- Instant source previews
- Creates small encoded preview clips
- Pause, resume encoding
VidCoder 10.13 / 10.12 changelog:
- Fix crash when QSV decoding is enabled
- Updated to HandBrake 1.8.1
- Added {sourcepath} as an option for post-encoding actions.
- Allowed watching the same folders with different presets.
- Added status toast updates for new versions.
- Fixed crash when encountering a database version that is too high.
- Fixed crash when a deleted log file is selected in the Log window.
- Fixed an issue where scan process crashes would hang the bulk scan operation.
- Renamed two-pass to multi-pass
- Added some protection to avoid accidentally running cleanup on a new encoding process if the previous one failed.
- Remove "standard error" redirect behavior for worker processes.
- Updated code to "rescue" the window placement. It"s now activated if it"s on the screen by less than 10 pixels.
- Added option to stop showing the encode progress in the Window title. This allows working around a Windows bug where the Alt-Tab switcher flickers on window title updates.
- Updated installer to Velopack.
- Updated .NET runtime to 8.0.
Download: VidCoder 10.13 | 42.6 MB (Open Source)
Download: Portable VidCoder 10.13 | 84.1 MB
Link: VidCoder Home Page | VidCoder 11 Beta