100% automatique · H.264 · H.265 · AV1 · Windows · Linux · macOS
L'encodeur qui ne casse pas votre Dolby Vision.
Réduisez vos remux de 60 à 70% en gardant chaque image de Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+ et grain cinématique intacte. Déposez votre fichier — l'outil analyse chaque image et choisit les paramètres optimaux en H.265, AV1 ou H.264. Pensé pour les remux Blu-ray 1080p et les rips UHD 4K.
The problem
You've already tried it. It didn't work.
Re-encoding a video library to H.265 without destroying the metadata, the grain, the dynamic range — that's exactly what consumer tools fail at.
Generic encoders strip Dolby Vision
Most H.265 tools strip out Dolby Vision Profile 7 (FEL/MEL) metadata or convert it badly. What displayed beautifully on your OLED becomes flat SDR — or broken HDR — after re-encoding.
Manual ffmpeg: hours of testing
Finding the right x265 parameters takes 1 to 3 hours per film. And those parameters change with each source — grain, noise, motion, complexity.
Fixed presets vs varying content
A universal preset gives mediocre results everywhere. A grainy film and a smooth animation don't have the same encoding needs.
Ils l'utilisent
Ce qu'en disent les utilisateurs.
Positioning
Who it's built for. And who it isn't.
We'd rather be honest upfront. Adaptive Encoder prioritizes near-remux quality over maximum compression — it's an intentional design choice.
✓ Excellent for…
1080p Blu-ray remuxes with film grain — classics, horror, 35mm auteur films.
4K UHD rips with Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG.
Mixed libraries where you don't want to calibrate each film by hand.
Long-term archival — encode once, watch 100 times.
⚖ Quality over raw size
Adaptive Encoder targets near-remux quality, not maximum compression at any cost.
On already-clean, grain-free content, the space savings are more modest — a deliberate trade-off so image fidelity is never sacrificed.
You always keep the detail, grain and HDR metadata that make the original look great.
💡 The philosophy
The algorithm aggressively preserves detail, grain and HDR metadata — even when it could compress more.
For archiving, 8 GB of near-remux beats 5 GB of "acceptable". Storage gets cheaper every year — image quality, however, is final.
Comparison
What changes, concretely.
The tool handles what no consumer encoder gets right today.
| Generic encoders | Manual ffmpeg | Adaptive Video Encoder | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolby Vision Profile 7 | ✗ Broken | ~ With scripts | ✓ Automatic |
| Codec choice (H.264 / H.265 / AV1) | ✗ One codec | ~ Manual flags | ✓ All three, automatic |
| Grain preservation | ✗ Smoothed | ~ If you know what to flag | ✓ Automatic |
| Settings adapted per video | ✗ Fixed presets | ~ If you test yourself | ✓ Frame by frame |
| HDR10 / HDR10+ / HLG preserved | ~ Sometimes | ~ If properly flagged | ✓ Always |
| Black bar detection | ✓ | ~ Manual | ✓ Automatic |
| Setup time | 5 min | 1–3 hours per film | 0 min |
NEWCodecs
Three codecs. One automatic pipeline.
The same frame-by-frame analysis drives all three encoders — you just pick the goal. H.265 stays the default.
H.265 / HEVC — the default
10-bit x265, selected by default. The only path that carries Dolby Vision (Profiles 5, 7, 8.x), plus HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG, with per-scene bitrate allocation. The best balance of quality, size and player support for an OLED library.
AV1 — smallest files
10-bit SVT-AV1, the most efficient codec — meaningfully smaller at the same quality. Automatic film-grain synthesis keeps dark gradients perfectly band-free. HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG preserved. Plays in dav1d players (VLC, mpv), modern browsers and recent hardware.
H.264 — plays on anything
Forced 8-bit High profile for maximum compatibility — every TV, phone, browser and old player, VLC included. SDR-focused (HDR sources are tone-mapped to SDR). The safe choice when a device just has to play it, no questions asked.
CPU vs GPU
Why not NVENC?
The first question RTX owners ask. The answer explains the whole product.
NVENC, QuickSync and AMF are designed for speed, not quality. Excellent for streaming Twitch or recording gameplay. Mediocre for archiving a library you'll watch on OLED for the next 10 years.
At equal bitrate, x265 (preset slower or veryslow) produces visually better files than NVENC HEVC — especially on grain, dark scenes, and complex motion.
At equal quality, x265 produces significantly smaller files. Every gigabyte saved is saved forever.
NVENC is frozen in silicon. x265 has been receiving psychovisual optimizations for over 10 years.
For archiving a library, speed doesn't matter — you encode once, watch 100 times. This tool is built for exactly that.
Features
What the tool does, exactly.
Built for serious libraries. No gimmicks.
Fully automatic
Zero configuration. It detects noise, grain, complexity and edge density on its own and tunes the optimal encoding parameters for every source and your chosen codec — no presets to choose, nothing to set by hand.
Dolby Vision 5, 7, 8.x
Metadata extracted with dovi_tool, preserved and reinjected without loss.
HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG
Color primaries, transfers, master display, MaxCLL and MaxFALL fully preserved.
Smart detection
Automatic black bar detection that focuses analysis on the real image content, ignoring dead pixels.
Audio and subtitles
All audio and subtitle tracks copied by default. TrueHD Atmos, DTS-HD MA, PGS subs — zero loss.
All formats, 480p to 8K
MKV, MP4, MOV, AVI, MXF, WebM, M4V, TS. Single binary, no Python dependencies.
HDR → SDR tone mapping
Need an SDR copy for a non-HDR screen, a projector or a phone? Convert Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG down to clean SDR with proper tone mapping — highlights and color held intact, no washed-out grey result.
Per-scene CRF (x264 / x265)
Instead of one global CRF for the whole film, the tool analyzes every scene and puts quality where it matters — more bits for complex, grainy or fast-motion scenes, fewer for the simple ones. Better quality at the same size, smaller files at the same quality.
Cleaner darks and gradients (AV1)
AV1 takes a different route from per-scene CRF: variance boost feeds extra bits into flat and dark regions to kill banding (essentially free), and a frame-level luminance QP bias lifts quality in dark scenes — exactly where AV1 tends to struggle.
NEWWhat's new
Sharper denoising. Cleaner gradients.
The noise-reduction pipeline has been rebuilt from the ground up — faster, smarter, and fully under your control.
Next-gen motion-aware denoising
A single fast hqdn3d engine splits spatial and temporal denoising according to each scene's motion. No more smearing on action shots, and fine detail is preserved on static frames. (Replaces the old, far slower nlmeans / bm3d engines.)
Grain under control, flawless gradients
Smart automatic degraining of noisy sources — or keep your original grain 100% with a single option. Built-in 10-bit anti-banding keeps every gradient perfectly smooth.
More reliable analysis
Credit cards and fade-to-black frames are now excluded from the measurements, so grain, noise and motion detection — and the settings derived from them — are far more accurate.
VapourSynth intégré — débruitage lourd sans rien installer
Pour les sources très granuleuses (vieux Blu-ray, masters 35mm), VapourSynth MVTools est maintenant intégré directement dans l'application. Activez le mode « degrain lourd » en un clic — compensation de mouvement image par image, sans installer VapourSynth, Python ou aucun plugin externe. Tout est dans l'exécutable.
In detail
Everything it does, point by point.
Built to archive your films at near-remux quality. Adaptive Video Encoder analyzes each video frame by frame and prioritizes maximum preservation of detail, grain and HDR metadata over aggressive compression.
🎞️ HDR & Dolby Vision
- Full preservation of Dolby Vision Profile 5, 7, 8.x
- Automatic Dolby Vision Profile 7 → 8.1 conversion
- HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG fully preserved
- Color primaries, transfers, master display, MaxCLL & MaxFALL carried through
🔬 Analysis & quality
- Frame-by-frame analysis — optimal parameters per video, in H.265, AV1 or H.264
- Motion-aware denoising with smart grain handling — film grain preserved on demand
- Automatic 10-bit anti-banding for smooth gradients
- Automatic black bar detection — without cutting actual content
- 10-bit encoding (8-bit on H.264), adaptive preset from fast to veryslow
🎬 Compatibility
- All audio tracks and subtitles copied (TrueHD Atmos, DTS-HD MA, PGS)
- Formats: MKV, MP4, MOV, AVI, MXF, WebM, M4V, TS
- Resolutions from 480p to 8K
- Standalone app — ffmpeg, ffprobe & dovi_tool bundled. No dependencies, no install.
💻 Platforms & license
- 🪟 Windows 10/11 (x64) — graphical interface
- 🍎 macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) — graphical interface
- 🐧 Linux (x64) — graphical interface
- 🔑 Lifetime license, 2 computers — free transfer if you switch machines
- 📦 Updates available via GitHub — download the latest version anytime
Commencer
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Platforms
Native binaries. No setup.
Standalone graphical interface for each platform — no install required. ffmpeg, ffprobe and dovi_tool bundled inside the executable.
Native .exe
Standalone executable with graphical interface for Windows x64. Double-click to launch. Works on Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server.
Native binary
Standalone graphical application for Linux x64. Tested on Ubuntu 22.04+, Debian 12+, Fedora 40+. Launch from your file manager or app menu.
Native arm64
Native graphical app for Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3). Launch from Finder or Launchpad. Optimized for the M-series neural cores.
Questions
What people often ask.
No, the tool is excellent for 1080p too. Particularly on Blu-ray remuxes with film grain (classics, horror, 35mm auteur films) or complex scenes (action, sci-fi).
Unlike encoders that blindly smooth grain, Adaptive Encoder detects it and handles it intelligently: in auto mode it degrains noisy sources (with anti-banding to protect gradients), and you can keep your original grain at any time with --no-denoise or --denoise-preserve-grain.
H.265 is the default and the one to keep for Dolby Vision and HDR libraries on an OLED — it's the best balance of quality, file size and player support, and the only codec that carries Dolby Vision.
Pick AV1 for the smallest files at the same quality (it adds automatic film-grain synthesis so dark gradients stay clean), or H.264 when a file simply has to play on anything — old TVs, phones, any browser. The same frame-by-frame analysis drives all three.
Yes. Alongside preserving HDR, the tool can tone-map Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG sources down to SDR — handy when you need a copy for a non-HDR TV, a projector, a laptop or a phone. It maps highlights and colors properly, so the result stays natural instead of the dull, grey look a blind conversion produces.
It's an intentional design choice. Adaptive Encoder is calibrated to maximally preserve detail, grain and HDR metadata — even when the algorithm could compress more.
For archiving a library, 8 GB of near-remux beats 5 GB of "acceptable". If you still want to cap file size, set a maximum bitrate in the encoding options panel.
Yes. It's the default conversion in the tool. Profile 7 (FEL/MEL) is extracted with dovi_tool and reinjected as 8.1 in the output file.
Compatible with most modern Dolby Vision players (TVs, set-top boxes, recent media players).
Native binaries are available for Windows 10/11 (x64), Linux (x64), and macOS (Apple Silicon — M1/M2/M3). All versions include dependencies bundled — ffmpeg, ffprobe and dovi_tool are inside the executable.
Intel Macs and ARM Linux variants are not currently supported.
Yes — by choice. On H.265 and AV1 it defaults to slow, high-quality presets (x265 slower/veryslow) to maximize quality; H.264 is CPU-encoded too.
This isn't a fast encoder, it's a good one. If you want speed, NVENC is free. But it's not the same product.
Your license can be activated on up to 2 computers at the same time. Switching machines? Click "Deactivate this machine" in the License tab, then activate on the new one. Stuck? Email licences@adaptive-encoder.com or message us on Discord — transfer is free and fast.
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