Hybrid 2024.12.21.1 – Video Converter Free

Hybrid is a multi-platform converter (Linux, macOS, Windows) that functions as a front end for various other tools. It can convert nearly any input to x264, x265, Xvid, or VP9, as well as audio formats like AC3, OGG, MP3, AAC, and FLAC, all within containers such as MP4, M2TS, MKV, WebM, MOV, and AVI, as well as Blu-ray or AVCHD structures.

Hybrid bundles multiple video processing utilities into a single package. It enables you to convert multiple file types into various multimedia formats. Moreover, it can perform tagging and muxing operations and automate common tasks.

One of the main advantages of Hybrid is related to the range of supported formats. It can handle VC-1, AVC raw input, and all the other file types that MPlayer and FFmpeg can decode. It also supports x264, Xvid, VP8, x265, and ProRes as output.

The integrated video encoder can handle multiple encoding modes, each defined by specific parameters such as bitrate and constant rate factors. Additionally, it supports various containers, including Blu-ray discs and AVCHD. In addition, you can use the audio extraction function to generate MP3, OGG, AAC, FLAC, AC3, DTS, and other similar formats.

Hybrid comes with lots of configuration options for more advanced users. You can modify the encoding mode, adjust the bitrate, and set the tune and the entropy coding mode. Furthermore, you can resize loaded images, change their aspect ratio, and crop images manually. Alternatively, you can allow the application to perform this operation for you using the ‘auto crop’ function.

In addition to this, it features filtering capabilities, helping you enhance the quality of your multimedia files before encoding. Among the available options, you can find deinterlacing, telecine, color adjusting, sharpening, denoising, horizontal and vertical deblocking, temporal noise reducing, and many more.

Hybrid’s general feature list:

• Extensive ability to configure x264s setting (with dependency checks)
• Ability to configure x265s setting.
• Tagging support for MKV, MP4, and MOV.
• Chapter support for mkv, mp4, Blu-ray.
• Subtitle supports for mkv, MP4, and Blu-ray.
• Separated audio-, video-, filter, audio, and video combi profiles.
• Integrated bitrate calculator.
• Accepts vc-1 and AVC raw input.
• Manual and automatic creation and pass-through of chapters.
• Ability to encode single titles/chapters.
• Job-control.
• aac, mp3, ac3, ogg, flac, DTS, PCM audio encoding with dcaenc, mencoder, ffmpeg, often and different aac encoders.
• Supported AAC encoders: qaac, fdk, faac, fhg, neroaacenc, vo-aacenc.
• Filtering through Mencoder (+ some resize automation) or AviSynth.
• Acceptable Input: avs and everything that mplayer, FFmpeg can decode
• Supported video output formats: MPEG-4 ASP (Xvid), MPEG-4 AVC (x264, qsvencc). VP8/VP9 (vpxenc), ProRes (ffmpeg). MPEG-4 HEVC (x265, kvazaar, DivX265), FFV1 (ffmpeg). UT video (FFmpeg), FFvHuff (FFmpeg).
• Supported audio output formats: DTS, ac3, ogg vorbis, mp3, aac, FLAC, PCM, opus, pass-through
• Supported containers: mov, mp4, mkv, m2ts, webm, avi. Blu-ray or an AVCHD structure
• Audio/video pass-through -> can be used for muxing, tagging, chapter editing
• There are a lot of options to automate stuff

The application can process subtitles and perform tagging operations for video, audio, and subtitle streams. The integrated chapter editor can assist in adjusting the chapter names and editing the video structure. For your convenience, Hybrid includes a job scheduling section that helps you automate various tasks.