VidCoder VS MKVToolnix

VidCoder Reviews

MKVToolnix Reviews

VidCoder mentions (19)

• What’s better for ripping DVDs than Handbrake?

  VidCoder (Here) is my go to app, it uses handbreak as its encoder but has much better handling of real discs. Source: about 1 year ago

• Virtualizing, colored log window in WPF

  A user recently reported that VidCoder would hang in the middle of a long encode. After dusting off WinDbg and some !clrstack and !eestack I found a thread in garbage collection for FlowDocument. We use this in only one place, the log window. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

• Best free video format converter in 2023?

  VidCoder uses Handbrake's engine and is very simple to use. Source: about 1 year ago

• The Last Resort

  If you need a specific size, which is why I guess one of the few reasons you’d want a constant bitrate, use vidcoder, which is just a reskinned handbrake with a target size option. For compression, I’d encode with H.265 or AV1 depending on what hardware you need it for, assuming you do need it light. I would still pass through audio, unless you’re really in a pinch. Source: about 1 year ago

• Any better alternatives to Wondershare Converter Factory?

  VidCoder is a different frontend for HandBrake with a more Metro-styled UX, and can be a bit easier to use for some workflows. Source: over 1 year ago

MKVToolnix mentions (185)

• TRUEHD 7.1 Slow Down

  Fourth, try remuxing one of the problem files. Use the Multiplexer section of MKVToolNix. This will copy the contents to a new MKV file. It is like putting a letter in a new envelope when the original is damaged, but the pages inside are OK. Source: 5 months ago

• Remove Audio Commentary over TV shows

  If the audio tracks are displayed as unknown, the language flag needs to be set. Use tools such as MKVToolNix Header Editor to configure the language for audio & subtitle tracks. Source: 10 months ago

• /r/Plex's Moronic Mondays' No Stupid Questions Thread - 2023-07-10

  As for extracting tracks from MKVs, the low-level way would be to use ffmpeg directly (something like ffmpeg -i video.mkv -map 0:s:0 subtitle.sup would extract the first subtitle stream to a .sup file, the extension used for standalone PGS subtitles), but something like MKVToolNix can probably do it as well. That won't help you too much on its own though, since you now just have an external image-based subtitle... Source: 10 months ago

• Advice needed on anime series with two audio language versions.

  You could use a tool outside of Plex (like MKVToolNix) to combine the video+audio of one version with the audio+subtitles of the other. It gets trickier, or at least more tedious, if the videos aren't exactly the same, since you'd then have to account for any audio/subtitle shifting. Source: 10 months ago

• Plex isn't syncing episodes into database

  Option 3: Change to MKV container. Use MKVToolNix or similar tools and remux to a MKV container. Note that this may cause problems with Dolby Vision. LG TVs must have Dolby Vision in a MP4 container, otherwise the video will not play correctly. Probably affects other Plex clients as well. Source: 10 months ago