QuEnc

QuEnc is a lightweight and simplistic app that allows you to turn AVS, AVI and WAV files into MPEG items (M2V, M1V, MPG). It can be used by both novices and experienced individuals.

This is a portable piece of software, so installation is not necessary. It means that you can place QuEnc on a USB Flash drive, store it on any computer and directly run its executable file.

There are no changes made to the Windows registry and leftover items cannot be found after removing QuEnc.

The interface of the tool is dull and uncomplicated. Media files can be imported via the file browser because the "drag and drop" function is not included. Unfortunately, you cannot process multiple entries in the same session.

If you are satisfied with the default settings, then you can directly proceed with the encoding procedure by specifying the output destination, file type and filename.

Advanced users can make audio and video adjustments when it comes to the scene detection, bit rate, aspect ratio, QLB matrix, variable bit rate, quality, codec and mux profile. But you can also enable interlaced encoding, specify the thread priority and change the UI appearance (e.g. dark background color).

The video conversion tool runs on a low amount of system resources in order to finish a task in reasonable time. We have not experienced any problems during our tests; QuEnc did not freeze, crash or pop up error dialogs. The tool needs some serious improvements in the visual department but we must take into account the fact that QuEnc has not been updated for a very long time.