MediaCoder is an open source universal audio/video batch transcoder (converter), which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats. With many extra features and a expandable architecture, MediaCoder is more than a GUI of a bunch of command line tools.

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Feature Highlights:

• Convert to and from many audio and video compression formats and re-multiplex into various container formats, on the fly, in batch
• Give you the control over the transcoding process and all the parameters of the transcoded files, so you can learn about, compare among and play with various codecs
• Specific user interfaces for specific devices with device plug-ins and extensions
• Fully standalone, no dependent on any media player, filter or codec, no registration of any components into system
• Multilingual user interface

Typical Applications:

• Improving compression / reducing file size
• Converting for audio/video portable devices (digital audio player, MP4 player, mobile phone, PDA, PSP, VCD/DVD player etc.)
• Extracting audio tracks from video files
• Ripping audio/video discs

Extendiblity

• Extensions - HTML+JavaScript to expand user interface with web techniques
• Plug-ins - DLLs to expand user interface and functions

Supported Audio/Video/Container Fomats:

• MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AAC+, AAC+V2, MusePack, WMA, RealAudio
• FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, OptimFrog, AAC Lossless, WMA Lossless, WAV
• H.264, Xvid, DivX, MPEG 1/2/4, H.263, Flash Video, 3ivx*, RealVideo*, Windows Media
• AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, RealMedia*, ASF/WMV, Quicktime*, OGM*
• CD, VCD, DVD, CUE Sheet

* supported as input only

MediaCoder is absolutely free of charge, as it's standing on so many excellent open source projects, in which talents of people around the world are aggregated. If you really like MediaCoder or it does help you, the best way to reward the author of his devoted time and efforts and to cheer him up to keep moving the project forward, is to donate for the project. Click the button below to do donation for MediaCoder via PayPal. Here is more information on donation.

As an alternative to donating directly to the author, you can choose to donate via SourceForge (part of the donation will be given to SourceForge, the hoster of the MediaCoder project) by clicking the button below.

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• Windows Operating System (WINE support on Linux coming soon)
• A fast CPU (with SSE support strongly recommended) if you want a reasonable speed when transcoding videos

Download the latest Full Pack release and updates at the download page

MediaCoder Download Page

MediaCoder at work

Alternative MediaCoder user interface

The PSP transcoder

See more screenshots of MediaCoder

MediaCoder is provided as a free software and is developed by me in my free time. I get fun from it and use it myself. It is absolutely without any warranties and you use it on your own risk. If you meets any difficulty in using it, you can ask on the forums and I will help if I can. If you find any bug or have any idea of improvements, tell me and I will consider them seriously. Here is some links where you can get support.

Supporting resources

The official support forum
MediaCoder FAQ
MediaCoder PSP transcoding guide

Links

The graphics (including the LOGO) of MediaCoder is designed by Wikki. Click here to visit Wikki's Studio.

Commercial Solutions

Click here for more information about commercial solutions based on MediaCoder.