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 9.17 changelog:
HandBrake core changes
- Added AMD VCN AV1 encoder
- Added NVIDIA NVENC AV1 encoder
- Added support for SVT-AV1 multi-pass ABR mode
- Full list of changes: https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/releases/tag/1.7.0
Other changes
- Enabled NVDec hardware decoding, supported only when using an NVEnc encoder and with the right hardware.
- Added an option to remove the cap of 3 simultaneous NVEnc encodes. Only those that have custom NVidia drivers that remove the cap should choose this.
- Increased the maximum simultaneous encode setting cap to 16.
- Added log window virtualization. This should greatly reduce memory use and prevent hangs when using Extended logging.
- Added the option to use a polling folder watcher (Global options ➡️ Advanced ➡️ Watcher mode). This is a slower, less efficient way of detecting files in watched folders, but is a good option if you find the regular watcher is not functioning.
- Updated Global Options to immediately apply changes.
- Added shortcuts to the Encoding Settings and Picker windows from the Global Options window. It includes desriptions to help people find settings they are looking for.
- Added more checks around the file save dialog, retrying without an initial directory or file name when it fails. This fixes a potential crash on an invalid folders.
- Added a Picker ability to choose titles based on the width or height.
- Changed to delay the allow sleep operation until after the post-encode triggers have had a chance to execute. This should fix an issue where the system would sleep instead of shutting down as configured.
- Added option to restart on encode/queue complete.
- Removed restriction on setting another subtitle as Default when a track is burned in.
- Added "None" option for automatic audio track selection.
- Added checkbox in Global Options to quickly enable or disable auto-pause on process.
- Added "pause" and "resume" commands to VidCoderCLI.exe.
- When editing a queue item, the original preset name is now shown first, "Old preset - Restored from Queue" rather than just showing "Restored from Queue".
- A bunch of bug fixes
VidCoder 9.18 fixes
- Fixed issue that caused the main window mini-preview image to disappear.
Download: VidCoder 9.18 (64-bit) | 44.4 MB (Open Source)
Download: Portable VidCoder 9.18 | 82.7 MB
Link: VidCoder Home Page