Welcome to the official homepage of HC Encoder, a freeware MPEG-2 encoder. It offers quality comparable to commercial alternatives and the development has a strong focus on DVD compliancy.

HC Encoder is available in two versions:

• Easy to use stand-alone GUI version
• A batch version controlled by an .INI file or command line parameters

Main features of HCenc:

• easy to use GUI
• SD and HD resolutions are supported
• input via Avisynth or DGIndex
• 1-pass or 2-pass variable bitrate (VBR) encoding
• automatic or fixed GOP structure
• scene change detection
• total control over quantization matrices
• supports multiprocessing
• 23.976 –> 29.97 pulldown
• and a lot more…

HC Encoder is fully supported by DVD ReBuilder, together they make high quality DVD to DVD-R backups, while being a totally free solution.

Building and maintaining HC takes a lot of time, donations are certainly appreciated.

Click here to download the latest HC Encoder!

Latest version v0.25 (20-Sep-2010).