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Add to SafariWhen comparing GStreamer vs XMedia Recode, the Slant community recommends GStreamer for most people. In the question“What are the best combined audio & video transcoders?” GStreamer is ranked 5th while XMedia Recode is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose GStreamer is:
In addition to having great flexibility over demuxer, decoder, processer, encoder, muxer choice and settings, GStreamer can clip, crop, stream, extract frames, merge audio and video from different sources and perform many other tasks.
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Pros
Pro Powerful
In addition to having great flexibility over demuxer, decoder, processer, encoder, muxer choice and settings, GStreamer can clip, crop, stream, extract frames, merge audio and video from different sources and perform many other tasks.
Pro Extendable
You can dynamically load plugins and implement different libraries to extend functionality.
Pro Excellent debugger
GStreamer can give you detailed information about the pipeline and each individual process it's running.
Pro Excellent variety of formats
Among the more common formats GStreamer can handle are h.264, HEVC(h.265), mp3, AAC, mpeg-4, wmv3, ProRes, QuickTime, SWF, Speex, FLAC, VP9 and it can also be extended with other libraries to support different formats.
Pro Free and open-source
Licensed under LGPL.
Pro Cross-platform
Available on Windows, OS X, and Linux.
Pro Filters
Crop, resolution, denoise, blur, sharpness, rotate, smart blur, etc.
loudness normalization, volume correction, etc.
Pro Bitrate control modes
VBR, 2-pass VBR, CQP, ICQ/LA-ICQ, etc.
Pro Hardware acceleration
Intel Quick Sync, NVENC/cuda, AMD.
Pro Many codec types
H264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, etc.
AAC, HE-AAC, HE-AAC V2, opus, vorbis, flac, ape, etc.
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