After a long pause in development, the highest quality freeware MPEG-2 encoder is back with a new release for fall 2010. The new version 0.25 comes with a handful of improvements and bug fixes, along with an announcement that the v0.24 has been withdrawn from distribution (no reason given).
Changes from version v0.23
HCenc 0.24 was withdrawn
bug [...]
HC Encoder is a freeware high quality MPEG-1/2 encoder.
Changes from version v0.22
Added adaptive quantization
Added panscan
Author: hank315
License: Freeware, donations accepted
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DVD Rebuilder (DVD-RB) is currently the highest quality method to backup a DVD, while retaining menus and extras. The software acts as a front-end for various tools, and provides a simple “one-click” interface for DVD to DVD-R compression.
Instead of performing a quick transcoding, which results in a lesser quality copy, DVD-RB re-encoder the video using [...]
In this guide we will use DVD Rebuilder Pro to make a backup of DVD. DVD Rebuilder is pretty easy to use and there’s also some nice features for advanced users. DVD-RB doesn’t require any commercial MPEG-2 encoder, though one can be used. In DVD-RB Pro you can use either QuEnc, HC, ReJig, ProCoder or [...]
Nero Digital Audio Reference Quality MPEG-4 & 3GPP Audio Codec:
Compression Ratios ranging from ultra high (58 CDs fit on one!) to High-End Audio (2.5:1), for absolutely perfect audiophile encodings
Crystal Clear, Award Winning Sound Quality at every compression ratio and bit rate!
Support for Embedded Album Art (Covers, Booklets, Lyrics!)
Store Entire Audio Album in a Single [...]
Changes from version v0.21:
multiprocessor support
improved interlaced encoding
more CLI input
and as usual some bug fixes
Author: hank315
License: Freeware, donations accepted
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