HandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files, originally developed in 2003 by Eric Petit to make ripping a film from a DVD to a data storage device easier.
When it comes to ripping DVDs to your hard drive, Handbrake is one of the best known open-source tools there is. One small problem if you're a Windows user: the GUI was designed for the Mac, and the Windows build sometimes feels like an afterthought, particularly with the slightly cluttered GUI.
- The screenshot above shows the main VidCoder screen. The layout is pretty straight forward, the top section allows you to load in the file/disc you want to convert, then you can select the destination, choose an encoding profile or custom settings, and finally, there's the work queue, a list of all conversions one after the other that you can schedule and run.
- Portable VidCoder is a small software utility which helps people extract the video content from BDs and DVDs, as well as convert particular clips to MKV and MP4. This is the portable version of.
Enter, stage left, VidCoder. It takes the underlying code behind Handbrake, and overlays its own specially designed user interface that's simpler and more intuitive to use. Like Handbrake it'll only output to MP4 and MKV file containers, and it won’t rip encrypted DVDs, which covers most commercial discs. If you want this functionality, try DVD Decrypter, available as part of the Free Studio suite, or as a standalone download.
The interface is definitely easier to navigate than Handbrake’s: everything you need is accessible from a single screen, and when you click Settings to tweak the various presets, these appear in their own window beneath the main one, ensuring you don’t lose sight of where you’ve been. You can tweak just about every aspect of the conversion process, so advanced users will be pleased, while novices can restrict themselves to one of the available presets: normal or high profile for most, with various Apple-related options also available.
Conversion isn’t particularly quick, but the end results are suitably impressive, just as they are with the program that inspired VidCoder.
Verdict:
VidCoder offers a welcome - and friendly - alternative interface to Handbrake.
Convert movies to MKV and MP4, as well as rip video content from DVDs and Blu-ray discs thanks to this application, which supports batch encoding
What's new in Portable VidCoder 6.31 Beta:
- Added Picker option to ignore files below a certain minimum size when batch queueing.
- Brought Title and Time Range picker sections into a single 'Video selection' section with the minimum size option.
- Made progress bars in the Encode Details window turn yellow when paused.
- Fixed issue where the logs on scan batches would stay open, preventing the 'clear finished logs' button from working.
Portable VidCoder is a small software utility which helps people extract the video content from BDs and DVDs, as well as convert particular clips to MKV and MP4.
This is the portable version of VidCoder, which means you can easily copy the program files to any location on the HDD and click the EXE to run it. If you move the aforementioned files to a USB flash drive, it is possible to use this tool on any computer you can connect to.
What’s more, you should know the Windows registry is not going to be affected by Portable VidCoder, and after its removal, no leftovers will remain.
The interface encompasses a clear-cut design, consisting of a menu bar, several buttons and a panel to display the queue. Files can be added with the help of a file browser or the “drag and drop” function.
While batch conversion is incorporated, you can append subtitles to videos, in a SRT format, as well as preview an item or choose between all the built-in presets (universal, Android, Apple iPhone, Apple TV, Windows Phone 8 etc.).
You can also configure encoding settings, such as cropping the picture, adjusting the resolution, inserting and customizing video filters (detelecine, deinterlance, denoise etc.), changing frame rate, quality, video and audio codec, gain and sample rate.
Presets can be imported or exported as a XML file, while you can also save the configurations you have set up, view, copy to the Clipboard or clear logs, and select the output directory.
Taking all of this into consideration, it becomes clear that Portable VidCoder is a useful piece of software, which does not hamper your system’s resources, has a good response time and a user-friendly environment, bundled with many options.
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Portable VidCoder was reviewed by Madalina BobocPortable VidCoder 5.21 / 6.31 Beta
Vidcoder For Mac
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- This is the portable version of the application. An installable version is also available: VidCoder
- runs on:
- Windows 10 32/64 bit
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2012
Windows 2008 R2
Windows 2008 32/64 bit
Windows 8 32/64 bit
Windows 7 32/64 bit
Windows Vista 32/64 bit - file size:
- 17.8 MB
- filename:
- VidCoder-5.21-Portable.exe
- main category:
- Portable Software
- developer:
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