

And quite a good one at that.Īnamorphic is the property of scaling the width of a video by a factor in order to correct its Aspect Ratio.This setting is a bit complicated to explain. So, it wouldn’t be right classifying it as a video converter per se, but it most certainly is a video transcoder.

Handbrake currently supports two output container formats: MKV and MP4. So, from this it is evident that most video converters are transcoders as well (though in most cases, devoid of many of the features offered by standalone video transcoders like Handbrake), while video transcoders may or may not offer conversion. Converting: Changing the container format of the video file, with or without transcoding.Transcoding: Encode using a different codec from the one with which the video is currently encoded.For example aac, mp3, wma are audio codecs and x264, xvid, VP8 are video codecs. The video and audio streams are encoded using different codecs and are held together in the container format. Codec (COder-DECoder), simply put, is the program using which data streams are encoded for storage on a device, and decoded for playback. The audio that you hear, and the video that you see. Codec: A video file basically comprises of two things.

For example, mp4, avi, mkv, 3gp, flv are all container formats, and in no way signifies the codec used. If your file name is xxx.yyy, then yyy is the container.
