HC Encoder is a freeware MPEG-2 encoder. It offers quality comparable to commercial alternatives and the development has a strong focus on DVD compliancy.
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
Fast encoding speed
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.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this video converter software.