Welcome to the official homepage of HC Encoder, a freeware MPEG-2 encoder. It offers quality comparable to commercial alternatives and the development has a strong focus on DVD compliancy.

HC Encoder is available in two versions:

• Easy to use stand-alone GUI version
• A batch version controlled by an .INI file or command line parameters

Core features of HC Encoder:

• Input via Avisynth or DGIndex/DGDecode projects
• 2-pass variable bitrate (VBR) encoding
• Three quality modes: BEST, NORMAL and FAST
• User controllable GOP structure
• Scene change detection
• User configurable quantization matrices
• Multiprocessor support

HC Encoder is fully supported by DVD ReBuilder, together they make high quality DVD to DVD-R backups, while being a totally free solution.

Building and maintaining HC takes a lot of time, donations are certainly appreciated.

Click here to download the latest HC Encoder.
Currently hosting version v0.22 (12-November-2007).

Changes from version v0.21:

• multiprocessor support
• improved interlaced encoding
• more CLI input
• and as usual some bug fixes