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
  • Multi-threaded transcoding and job-level parallelization
  • Transcoding with high performance and high quality
  • Flexible control over transcoding parameters
  • Simplified UI for popular mobile devices (PSP, iPhone/iPod etc)
  • Fully standalone, no dependancy on system codecs/splitters
  • Simultaneous Segmental Transcoding (in development)


Typical Applications

  • Improving compression / reducing size for audio/video files
  • Converting media content for playback on multimedia devices
  • Converting media content for online publication or broadcasting
  • Extracting audio track from video files
  • Ripping audio/video discs
  • Fixing corrupted or partial downloaded video files


Supported Fomats

* supported as input only

  Jul. 6, 2010 MediaCoder NT CUDA Edition released
  Apr. 20, 2010 MediaCoder iPod Edition updated with iPad & Apple TV presets added
  MediaCoder full edition released
  Feb. 12, 2010 MediaCoder CLI for Flash Video updated
  Sept 7, 2009 MediaCoder 0.7.2 released
  Mar. 27, 2009 MediaCoder given 1st place by CHIP Magazine (article/result)
  Mar. 16, 2009 MediaCoder 0.7.0-rc released