The Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer (SUPER) is the Swiss Army knife of video transcoders. It can encode and decode virtually any media file and offers a plethora of options for encoding web videos. Although similar to MPEG Streamclip, SUPER seems to be more stable, advanced, and user friendly and does not rely on the QuickTime player for codec support.
Features
- Encode to/from FLV, H.264, MP4, MP2, WMV, AVI, MOV, DIVX, XVID, MP3, OGG and many more
- Advanced encoding settings and advanced H.264 options
- Integrated player and stream downloader
- Batch encoding
- Media file analyzer – View all codec and meta data for any audio or video file
Here is a screenshot (click for larger image):
Here is a sample FLV (480×272 30fps @ 1600kbps – 1.7 MB file) file that I encoded with SUPER of some free stock footage from OpenFootage.Net
Here is the same file as a MPEG 4 (H.264 480×272 30fps @ 1600kbps – 1.5 MB file)
At the same data rate, H.264 MPEG4 will look better than the FLV codec that SUPER uses. Fortunately, once Flash Player 9 is widely used we will be able to use H.264 in Flash as well.
I have encoded a few videos with SUPER and so far I am impressed with what you can get from this free tool. If you need to encode videos for your own website or need to compress your files before uploading to YouTube in order to stay under the 100MB limit, be sure to check SUPER out.
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Learn more & download at: http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
Related posts
- Flowplayer: Open Source Flash Video Player For Your Website
- MPEG Streamclip v1.1 – Free H.264 Encoding Software for Windows & Mac
- OpenFootage.net – Free Open Source Full HD Timelapse & High Resolution Textures
- JW FLV Media Player – Website Media Player With Plugin Support
- MediaCore Free Video Content Management System
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so how do you go about embedding them into the webpage then once you have it converted like that. Do you use just the typical code or is there a predefined coded to use & for use on web blogs as well.
WillyV
If you are encoding to FLV then I would recommend using the JW FLV Player ( http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_MP3_Player ). I will be covering this player in detail in a future post. For Wordpress and other blog and CMS software, they have some plugins that make it very easy to embed just like I have done above.
For QuickTime, it is ideal to use special JavaScript so that IE does not require the user to activate the QT plugin. Here are the steps:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed.html
Here are some plugins for Wordpress that can embed QT and FLV (uses the JW FLV Player), they are called FLV Embed and QuickTime Embed:
http://www.channel-ai.com/blog/plugins/
If you let me know more details about your project, I will be happy to help.
Thank you very much for the info. For FLV, SWF, MP3 streaming I use Wimpy but surely the Jeroenwijering Player has to be one of the best choices around to use. But I do a lot of video tutorials which are all done in .m4v, .mp4, & .mov formats. Lately I’ve been using QT Pro’s Export to Web feature just love it. So I’ve been trying to find a plugin for wordpress that was very similar to it. I did however try out the one from channel-ai.com I must say it came pretty close to what I was trying to achieve.
Ultimately I stayed with my current format of doing it. Reason being since I’m new to WordPress I really don’t know how it works but I did find that If I place the following code within the header of the skin being used I could do exactly what I wanted. Code Below:
Then on my post I input in the html veiwer & just make sure that I replace the url location & name of the poster image & reference movie file along with width height. Since some of my vids are done in .mp4 format with the following code.
I’m sure this is not one of the best ways of doing it but it surely works very well. At least that I have found to be my best option.
If it’s ok to post the link to preview it here it is if not just delete the link.
Current link http://www.dofch.com/blog/2008/04/14/tribute-to-black-angel/
how ever if I decide to make the blog the primary page then it will be http://www.dofch.com/2008/04/14/tribute-to-black-angel/
I get errors when trying to convert FLV to MPEG-II using Super. Funny because I can convert to MPEG-4 successfully but my video editor works best with MPEG-II.
What Super settings would you recommend? Some of the FLV videos are You Tube videos.
@Edro
What video editing software are you using? Are you using the latest version of SUPER? Without having more details, it is hard to know what settings would be best.
I am trying to use Super to convert Quicktime .mov files to .avi files so I can use them with Windows DVD Maker. I can get them to convert but the quality is poorer than the original and they are 1/2 the size. Tried matching the info from the original but can’t seem to get the right combination. ANy ideas? Thanks!
@Todd – Please post the SUPER settings you are using. Also, please open the .MOV files in the QuickTime player and post the details of the source files as well.
I could not find a download link from Super’s website anywhere. Where is the download link?
The SUPER website is horrible. The direct link to the current version is: http://www.erightsoft.org/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe
On a side note, you may want to look into Handbrake (http://handbrake.fr/) which is my new favorite open source video encoding tool. Is has a user friendly UI, is stable, and supports all formats the FFMPEG uses (Handbrake is basically a UI for the command line encoder FFMPEG).
Hi there!
Now I am asking the same question send to you via Mail to make sure everyone gets it:
Which one of the three mentioned softwares (Sorenson Squeeze 5 Pro, SUPER and Handbrake) is the best for compressing without loss of Quality?
Is there andything better on the market yet?
Greetings from Spain,
CostaDelSol
@CostaDelSol – All of those software can give you very good output with the proper settings and a good source file. Squeeze 5 with the Main Concept H.264 codec would be my preference over the others. For free encoders, I highly recommend Handbrake. Another professional software I really like is Episode Pro.
Can I use this program to encode video to a live constant video stream?
I am looking for an alternative for windows media encoder but for flash… Any suggestions?
Thank you!
Hi! Can you help me to convert mp4/avi files to mp4 files for Sony Ericsson K850i? I want the video size to be 320×240. Thanks…
Well, here is the supported audio and video codecs:
Audio Codec: AAC+ ; Advanced Audio Coding ; Adaptive MultiRate – Narrow Band ; Adaptive MultiRate – Wide Band ; DLS (ringtones) ; General MIDI (ringtones) ; MPEG-1 layer 3\r\nMPEG-2 layer 3,\r\nMPEG-2.5 layer 3 ; RealAudio 8 ; SP-MIDI (ringtones) ; Wave format PCM ; Windows Media Audio 8 ; Windows Media Audio 9 ; Extensible Music Format ; enhanced AAC+ ; iMelody (ringtones)
Video Codec: H.263 Profile 0 level 10 ; H.263 Profile 0 level 45 ; H.263 Profile 3 level 10 ; H.263 Profile 3 level 45 ; H.264 Level 1 ; H.264 Level 1b ; MPEG-4 Level 0 Part 2 Visual Simple profile ; MPEG-4 Level 0b Part 2 Visual Simple profile ; MPEG-4 Level 1 Part 2 Visual Simple profile ; MPEG-4 Level 2 Part 2 Visual Simple profile ; MPEG-4 Level 3 Part 2 Visual Simple profile ; Real Video 8 ; Windows Media Video 9 Local + streaming: QCIF@15 fps 128 kbit/s
You could use this info to try some test encodes. Did your phone come with its own encoding software? If not, there is some shareware that will work (not free though) from http://www.brothersoft.com/kingconvert-for-sony-ericsson-k850i-131243.html
Very nice site you have here.
You might be interested in a page I’ve created giving side-by-side comparisons of the best of the currently available video hosts which offer embedding: http://kareltests.co.uk An HD version is on the way.
Keep up the good work!