SUPER is a video encoder software for Windows. It is developed and distributed for free by eRightsoft.
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SUPER is not an encoder by itself. It is just a GUI front-end for real encoders beneath. These encoders include FFmpeg, MEncoder, MPlayer, x264, ffmpeg2theora, musepack, Monkey's Audio, True Audio, WavPack, libavcodec, and the Theora/Vorbis RealProducer plugIn projects. SUPER is meant to replace the command line interface which are used by these back-end encoders.
While the encoders used underneath this software are mostly open-source, the case is different with SUPER where it is closed-source and solely developed by eRightsoft. Despite this, SUPER keeps up its reputation of having rapid development with almost having one new version each month. This development rate is usually only seen on open-source software.
Being a video encoder (it also features audio encoder as well), minimum system requirement by this software is quite high, although it may not as high as most of other commercially available encoders. For instance, it requires a CPU of minimum 1.8GHz clockspeed, 512MB RAM with 176MB free system memory and 20GB of free space in the partition where the OS is installed. This however should have been expected and should not be much an issue anymore in today's computing. In fact, this requirement is already low enough to make professional video encoding viable. Anyways, during the test on an old Pentium 3 1GHz machine (with 512MB SDRAM), the software face no problem at all encoding a full length movie, albeit took a few hours longer compared to on newer Intel Core 2 Duo machine.
eRightsoft so very confident of their software and claims that "SUPER does for free what other encoders can't do for money". This is quite true considering how many formats the software supported and the availability of presets for mobile device such as SONY PSP, Nintendo-DS, iPod and NOKIA phones adds more value to this software.
After all this, SUPER also comes with some flaws. It lacks of controls that might have been posible by using the command line interface. For example, 'intercoding/transcoding' (encoding from another encoded format) an anime movie with Matroska video format (*.mkv) to an *.avi (with x.264 video codec) are missing the option to resize the font for the subtitles (since subtitle comes as a separate layer in MKV), rendering the resulting movie with the default subtitle size covering more than 10% of the scree, which is pretty much annoying to watch. This option should have been made available in the first place for most MKV videos might have more than 1 embedded subtitles/audio.
Overall, SUPER is good for home use, and might be great to be used side by side with other free video encoding/editing software like VirtualDub and tMPEGenc.
Get SUPER for free here:
http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html
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