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.
Changes in Hybrid 2024.09.29.1 :
changed
- Vapoursynth: SoftLight requires PC scale when mode != 8
- Vapoursynth: updated RIFE, RIFE(mlrt)
- Vapoursynth: use constants for Matrix, Primaries, Chroma, Luma
- Video: NVEnc/QSVEnc support –vpy-mt
- Jobs: add abort-option to size- and audio-warning onjo create&start
- Jobs: added scripts to report file
- Video: removed NVEnc input type checks
- Filtering: hide deinterlace control on progressive input, since it confuses users
- Avisynth: FFmpeg2Source use YUV422PX instead of YUY2
- Avisynth: increased supported memory max to 65536MB
- Avisynth: Hybrid now comes without Avisynth 32bit support, it is an addon now
- Video: do not check for UT Video, assume it is present
- Vapoursynth: prefer BestSource as default for file input
- Vapoursynth: torch – added ‘Requires’-controls to VSGAN and VSGAN Filter
- Input: Switch from Vapoursynth to Avisynth (when available) on .avs input
- Vapoursynth: TemporalDegrain2: degrainTR default and crash with degrainTR=0
- Video: x264, disable and deactivate ‘auto’ for color space on profile ‘None’
- Video: x264, x264 – added ‘adjust gop max to output fps’
- Ui: changed maximize handling
- Ui: option to set debug output path
- Vapoursynth: add masking for frame matching
- Vapoursynth: added FTF to TIVTC
- FFmpeg: don’t set color signaling for pipes
- Avisynth: added ‘Never use AviSource’
fixed
added
- Vapoursynth: GLSL Gamma, RGBAdjust filter ports(Levels broken&disabled)
- Vapoursynth: proToon
- Vapoursynth: vs_temporalfix
- Vapoursynth: torch/vmlrt option to set (trt) ‘engine path’
- Avisynth: added CustomSynthScripts for 32bit and 64bit proToon-v0.75.1
- Generate output name suffix added ‘%DATE%’,’%TIME%’,’%TIMEMS%’ replacements
- Vapoursynth: torch – add vs_colorfix for VSGAN and VSGANFilter
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11, Linux.