MediaCoder is a free universal media transcoder since 2005. It integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools in an elegant and transparent manner into an all-in-one transcoding solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, latest codecs and tools are updated added in constantly. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time.

Features In Brief

  • Converting between most popular audio and video formats with high performance and in high quality
  • Multi-threaded transcoding and job-level parallelization
  • Quick access and flexible control of all transcoding parameters
  • Simplified UI and special editions for mobile devices and web video
  • Hardware encoding acceleration (Intel SandyBridge, nVidia CUDA)


Typical Applications

  • Improving compression / reducing size for audio and video files
  • Converting media content for playback on multimedia devices
  • Converting media content for online publication or broadcasting
  • Unifying and normalizing media standard and storage format
  • Extracting audio track from video files and discs
  • Dumping and encoding from network stream or capture device
  • Fixing corrupted or partial downloaded video files


Supported Fomats

* supported as input only

  MediaCoder released
  Feb. 3, 2012 MediaCoder Web Video Edition released
  Jan. 8, 2012 MediaCoder iPhone Edition added preset for iPhone 4S
  Apr. 17, 2011 AudioCoder 2011 released
  Apr. 8, 2011 MediaCoder adds VP8 and WebM support
  Nov. 8, 2010 MediaCoder added 10-bit H.264 encoding
  Aug. 18, 2010 MediaCoder tested with Intel Concurrency Checker