BENCOS

BENCOS is a lightweight software application that helps users convert and compress large video files into smaller items using the H.264 or VP8 video compression format.

It sports a clean and straightforward layout that offers quick access to a set of well-organized functions.

The program works with the following file formats: AVI, MKV, MP4, OGM, and others, and lets you export the clips to MKV or MP4 file format.

BENCOS allows you to upload files into the working environment using the built-in browse function or “drag and drop” operations.

It offers support for batch processing, which means you can add multiple clips and convert them at the same time.

What’s more, you can pause or stop the current task and view detailed information and possible errors in the log section.

When it comes to video configuration settings, you are allowed to pick the codec, profile, bitrate, size, and output format, while the audio ones can be tweaked in terms of codec and bitrate.

The tool gives you the possibility to select the language and subtitle, choose the ratio format, normalize the audio streams, as well as resize the clips.

During our testing we have noticed that BENCOS doesn’t carry out a task very quickly, and it needs up to several minutes to accomplish batch processing operations. It doesn’t put a lot of stress on CPU and memory, so the overall performance of the computer is not affected.

To sum it up, BENCOS offers a handy set of parameters but it still needs some improvements in order to  speed up the encoding and compressing operations.