2017 Best 3 Video Transcoders (Win 10/macOS High Sierra included)

Date January 8, 2016 Author Catherine Category Blu-ray Tips, DVD Tips, Software Upgrade, Video Tips

Facing with so many excellent Video Transcoders, do you know which one is the best Video Transcoder? Does your Video Transcoder support Windows 10 or macOS High Sierra?

This week we’re going to look at 3 of the best video conversion tools in 2017 that can faithfully get your media library organized and ready to watch anytime, anywhere.

Why is a top video transcoder necessary?

To rich your Home Theater library, you probably need to migrate your Blu-ray/DVD to NAS so that you can enjoy them on HD/4K TV via Android TV box or Apple TV 4. If you’re getting your movie and TV show library in order, you’d better have all of your video in one format that you know every device you own can play without issue. In another case, your collection maybe span years of downloads, rips, and saved copies and these files can be all over the place, but now you want to integrate them into one personal cloud storage so that your DLNA enabled devices can play them anywhere and anytime. All of these jobs aforementioned need the best video transcoder.

What can the best video transcoder give you?

The best free video transcoder can make you free yourself from the ball-and-chain formats of yesterday and convert video so that it’s playable on practically any device you choose. A top video transcoder can make 3D content for Samsung Gear VR out of your old movie library and Blu-ray/DVD. A top-ranked video converter should be able to make MKV/AVI/Blu-ray/Tivoreadable in Windows Media Player. A excellent video conversion tool makes Blu-ray/DVD playable on iPad Air 3, iPad Pro 9.7, iPad Mini 4, iPhone SE, iPhone 6S, iPad Pro 12.9,, Microsoft Surface Pro 4.  

Now, let’s look at the 2017 top 3 video transcoders we picked below. But please bear in mind that try to keep your videos to only copyright-free content. 

No. 1 Video Transcoder 2017: Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate

Supported OS: Windows & Mac OS X



Summary: Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is the best BD/DVD/Video solution to backup BD/DVD, compress disc and transcode video clip (including H.265) to almost all popular video and audio formats like m3u8, H.265/HEVC MP4, MKV, M4V, AVI and play on iPad Mini 4, iPhone 6S Plus, Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge, PS4, HD media players, and more. Pavtube is being optimized for latest NVIDIA CUDA and AMD technologies to speed up the conversion speed and lets you convert Blu-ray and DVD movies in a flash while keeping the original high video quality. In addition, Pavtube software provided you batch processing facility that allows multiple video conversions at the same. 
 
Pros:

▶ Built in numerous video audio codecs, it is powerful enough to transcode videos among virtually all video/audio formats, including MKV, HEVC (H.265), M2TS, AVCHD, FLAC, MP3, MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, MPEG, FLV, VOB, 3GP, etc.
▶ Optimized preset output profiles make it easy to transcode videos to iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Android tablet, Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+, Google Nexus, Kindle Fire 7, PS4, Xperia, Microsoft WP8, Xbox, Surface Pro, etc.
▶ Support TrueHD audio and keep 7.1/5.1 audio while ripping Blu-ray
▶ This video transcoding software is designed to transcode videos at any resolution, including 1080p, 2160p 4K and 4320p 8K.
▶ Support MXF in XAVC video codec 
▶ Ease of Use This all-in-one product has a very user-friendly interface and every option is placed in a simple way.
▶ Excellent Built-in Video Editor As a powerful video converting software, it provides dozens of video editing functions, including: trim video length, crop video size, split large video into segments, add watermarks, adjust video effect.

Cons:

▶ It is a closed-source. If you use its free trial version, your output video will have the water marker in the middle.

Editor’s note: If I need a powerful comprehensive 4K/Blu-ray/DVD video transcoder, I will pay for it. But I think a open-source, like Handbrake is enough to me.

Tip: Its Mac version is Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac which supports macOS High Sierra, Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, 

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No. 2 Video Transcoder 2017: Any Video Converter 

Supported OS: Windows/Mac OS X 

 

Summary: The name truly says it all. Any Video Converter is a fantastic piece of freeware that can handle conversions to everything from DivX and MPEG4 to VOB and more than 60 other input formats, all within an attractive and minimalist interface that’s trouble-free and pleasing to navigate without being overly daunting. The software features user-defined video outputs, as well batch processing for converting multiple files simultaneously, and saves all converted video to a pre-designated folder for quick access and organization. Aside from the basic conversion features, AVC can also directly extract and convert audio from any given video into a limited number of formats such as MP3, AAC, WAVE and others. Plus, the program can download and convert YouTube and Google videos by simply pasting the specified video link into the download box and clicking a few buttons. 

Pros: 

▶ Any Video Converter Freeware is also a free audio CD ripper and video to audio converter which can rip audio tracks from CDs, extract audio tracks, sound or background music from videos. 
▶ lets you download videos from Youtube, Facebook, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Metacafe, Howcast, Niconico and other 100+ sites. 

Cons: 

▶ The built-in DVD burner is a bit finicky 
▶ Can’t rip and backup Blu-ray/DVD discs, DVD ISO/IFO, Video-TS folder. 

Editor’s note: If you don’t need to deal with Blu-ray/DVD, this program is enough for a common people.

No. 3 Video Transcoder 2017: Handbrake

Supported OS: Windows & Mac & Linux



Summary: Handbrake is our favorite video encoder for a reason: it’s simple, easy to use, easy to install, and offers a wealth of tweaking options to get the best possible file as a result. If you’re daunted by them, you don’t even have to use them—the app will compensate for you and pick some settings it thinks you’ll like based on your destination device. So many of you like Handbrake that many of you use it in conjunction with another app (like VLC, which makes ripping easy)—you’ll let another app do the rip and crack the DRM on your discs, and then process the file through Handbrake for encoding. 

Pros:

▶ Besides transcoding videos, HandBrake is also able to convert VIDEO_TS folders and rip unprotected DVDs to MP4/MKV. 
▶ HandBrake provides a couple of device presets for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Android, etc. 
▶ HandBrake comes with multiple setting options.

Cons:

▶ The output container formats are very limited, thus can’t meet all people’s needs.
▶ It is complicated to set an output device preset.
▶ It is hard to understand some setting options.
▶ It can’t rip copy protected DVD and Blu-ray discs.
▶ Batch video conversion, only available on HandBrake 0.9.5 or later, has a complicated process

Editor’s note: Since it is free, I think I will choose it first if I need a DVD Ripper. After all, MP4 is enough for nearly all devices and HD media players. 

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These 3 video transcoders stand out above the others for many reasons. Of course, there maybe have different voice. If you have a recommendation for a terrific converter not featured on our list? Let us know in the comments below.