Media Coder

Media Coder (MC) is a very capable but difficult to use encoder. This is a front end that uses Open Source Video Tools like FFmpeg and Mplayer in the background. Being in its infancy MC needs to be forgiven for the buggy interface it carries. The earlier version 0.3.9 seems to be better than the newer one v 0.5.

It can convert MPEG2/MPEG1/AVI (DivX, XviD)/3GP/MOV/Real Audio/etc., to MPEG2/MPEG1/AVI (DivX)/etc.

Features

MC can even convert into format used in portable viewers like PSP, Mobile phones, etc. Simple encoding from one format to another is quite easy. Use the Add file button to add the source. Set the required encoding options in the boxes at the bottom. Compression can be set depending on what final size you might need or what quality you want. It has even got options for tweaking the audio encoding.

Besides choosing the codec, the video can be further processed to remove noise (white dots that usually show up in amateur video shoots in poor lighting conditions), or to crop the video or resize it. And surely the additional processes will increase the processing time.

If you are just interested in a part of the movie, you can set the time range in milliseconds, here. Since MC does not have an easy way to mark out the ranges, you will need to view the file or another player to set the exact interval. Ensure you have done the math properly or you would end up cutting irrelevant parts.

After all this is done, just click on start button on the top to let the encoding begin.


So all I can say is, This Coder converts anything, like almost.