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Quick AVI Creator

OVERVIEW

Quick AVI Creator (QAC) is a FREEWARE, easy to use front-end, which uses several GNU licensed applications to convert video from DVD / MPEG / AVI / MKV / MP4 sources, to AVI / MKV / MP4 containers by using either XviD or x264 video encoders.

Supported up to 2 audio tracks with formats AC3 / DTS / PCM / MPEG / WMA / AAC / OGG either for converting or direct copying according to the provided source and the desired output.

Supported up to 1 subtitle track, either internal DVD / MP4 / MKV subtitles or external text subtitles with formats Subripper (srt), MicroDVD (sub), Sub Station Alpha (ssa / ass) and VobSub ripped subtitles (idx - sub).

The extra goal of the Quick AVI Creator is the absolute tuning of the output. To accomplish this goal, QAC uses AvsP which is the main difference between Quick AVI Creator and other video conversion front-ends.

Therefore you have the full control of the generated Avisynth script, thus you take advantage of every feature that the Avisynth offers. You will be able to preview the output, trim, resize, deinterlace, if necessary, modify the frame rate, or add Avisynth filters (such as denoise).

DOWNLOAD QUICK AVI CREATOR

Download QAC latest beta build. (Last updated Dec. 27 2009)

Download Quick AVI Creator v2.11.04.2009 from VideoHelp server

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SCREENSHOTS

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Obviously a proper decoding filter for decompressing AVI, DivX, XviD, etc. should be installed. Even if you already have one, my suggestion is ffdshow which has been tested and verified that QAC works smoothly with this.

Supported Windows 2000 and above versions. Windows 7 not tested though.
At least a Power User account is required. (Admin account is recommended).

Certain programs so called "Internet Security suites", may need to be trained in order to allow certain background activities when QAC launching the several included applications (tools).

VERSION HISTORY

Quick AVI Creator version 2.11.04.2009 (November 04, 2009) 
- Added new feature: Support for MP4 input source. QAC is now able,
  to transode MP4 sources to AVI/MKV/MP4.
- Bug fixed: Incorrect detection of low bitrate mono MP3 sound track 
  caused the event "invalid input file".
- Bug fixed: Incorrect extraction of selected internal subtitles track 
  when the input source (MKV/MP4) contains multiple tracks.
- Improved the Unicode conversion (UTF-8), regarding on external 
  and internal text subtitles.
- Improved the detection of external subtitles applying on all
  containers.
- Updated: MKVmerge to v2.9.8.0
- Updated: MKVextract to v2.9.8.0 
- Updated: x264 to version r1163.
- Updated: Mediainfo to version 0.7.24.
- Updaded: XviD core to version 1.2.2
- Updated: Valdec to version 0.31b
- As usual performed a lot of improvements regarding on user
  interaction.
- Regarding on the chosen input and output, applied the optimal related
  options. 
  However most of the applied options are able to change by the user
  while few others are mandatory.

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Quick AVI Creator version 2.4.12.2009 (April 12, 2009)
- Finally QAC became a genuine Unicode application. 
  In order to accomplish this transformation, the 
  application rewritten almost from scratch. 
  Please do not try to install QAC on any computer 
  which running any version below Windows 2000. 
- Added several machine translations, (hopefully right). 
  Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Romanian, 
  Russian, Polish, along with the already merged 
  English, Italian, Czech and Greek. 
  The language which is selected during the installation 
  is the selected language for the QAC as well.
- A Lot of user interaction improvements performed. 
- Bug fixed: Incorrect audio extraction from DVD source 
  when selected 2 tracks with different format (eg AC3&DTS). 
- Bug fixed: Finally managed and eliminated the annoying 
  popup console window which also caused occasionally the 
  video encoder to be launched in a separate console window. 
- Bug fixed: Invalid input file occured when the MKV source 
  contains multiple video streams. Now the first detected 
  video stream is selected by default. 
- Bug fixed: Incorrect mp3 sound extraction from MKV input 
  caused an unexpected error. 
- Bug fixed: Invalid input file occured when attempting to 
  load an input source from an UNC path. 
- Added: Support for Vorbis audio extraction from MKV source 
  either for transcoding or direct copying depending on the 
  desired output container. 
- Added: OggDec v1.9.6 (GNU-GPL). 
- Updated: x264 to version r1139. 
- Updated: Valdec to version 0.2a. 
- Updated: Mp4Box to version 0.4.6.0. 
- Updated: Faac to version 1.2.8.0. 
- Updated: Faad to version 2.7.0.0. 
- Updated: Lame to current version 3.98.2 instead of 3.98b. 

- Installer: New interface with language selection dialog. 

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Quick AVI Creator version 2.3.25.2009 (March 25, 2009)
- Bug fixed: Occasionally the video encoder has been launched 
  in a separate console window resulting in corrupted encoding.
- Improvement for MKV Input Container (MKV source file):
  Along with the already involved detection/support for the AVC codec,
  involved moreover detection/support for several other codecs.
  Actually every video format that is supported by the ffdshow
  directshow filter supported also by the QAC, provided that the
  ffdshow is installed and configured correctly.
- Managed some stability issues.
- Installer: Fixed bug which caused the installer to freeze while
  was attempting to install translation files for the AvsP.

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Quick AVI Creator version 2.3.18.2009 (March 18th, 2009)
- Bug fixed: incorrect parsing of MKV included subtitles affecting MP4 and MKV output.
- Bug fixed: inaccurate parsing of external subtitles related to MKV input.
- Updated DGAvcDec to v1.0.9.0 (likely faster indexing).
- Updated Lame to v3.8b (likely faster processing).
- Updated x264 to r951 (extra fast with modern multi-core processors).
- Updated MKVmerge to v2.5.3.
- Updated MKVextract to v2.5.3.
- Installer: Improved functionality and integrated Italian language.
- Several minor corrections/improvements performed.

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Quick AVI Creator version 2.3.6.2009 (March 6th, 2009)
- Added Italian translation by Enzo (www.freeplayclub.org)
- Added support for MKV input container.
- Added support for AAC audio decoding.
- Added support for WMA audio decoding.
- Added DgAvc v1.0.8.0 (GNU-GPL). 
- Added mkvextract part of MKVToolnix v2.4.1 (GNU-GPL).
- Added Faad v2.6.1 (GNU-GPL).
- Updated mkvmerge to v2.4.1.
- Updated Mediainfo to v0.7.8.0.
- Several minor corrections/improvements performed.

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Quick AVI Creator version 1.6.17.2008 (June 17th, 2008)
- Added support for 2 more output container modes:
  - MKV container performed by XviD encoder.
  - MKV container performed by x264 encoder.
- Added mkvmerge part of MKVToolnix v2.2.0 (GNU-GPL).
- Added option for AAC audio when container is mp4 or mkv.
- Added Faac v1.25.0 (GNU-GPL).
- Bug fixed: Incorrect parsing of DVD audio delay if any.
- Bug fixed: Incorrect parsing of 3:2 pull down film. (DGIndex force film option)
- Bug fixed: Process priority is now set to idle while running in backround waiting for AvsP.
- VSFilter revert to version 1.0.1.4 18/9/2007.
- DGIndex/DGDecode changed to v1.49 build independent from msvc*80 libraries.
- Installer: Added function to install msvc*80 libraries if needed.
- Several minor corrections/improvements performed.

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Quick AVI Creator version 1.6.3.2008 (June 3rd, 2008)
- GUI updated. Now supports 3 output container modes:
  - Avi container performed by XviD encoder.
  - Avi container performed by x264 encoder.
  - Mp4 container performed by x264 encoder.
- Added option to include subtitles within mp4 container
  instead of burn-in subtitles.
- Added Czech translation by pospec (http://hadanky.ezin.cz/coppermine)
- Added MP4Box version 0.4.4 (GNU-GPL).
- Added Avc2avi mod build 2006-11-12 by DVBPortal (GNU-GPL).
- Updated x264 encoder to version r859.
- Bug fixed: Incorrect parsing of dts audio.
- Minor modifications in AvsP in order to improve integration.
- Several minor corrections/improvements performed.
- Installer: Improved compatibility with Vista-UAC.
- Installer bugs fixed:
  - Incorrect extraction of vsfilter.dll in win 9x/Me systems.
  - Incorrect extraction of unicows.dll in win 9x/Me systems.

TODO:
- Implement mkv output container.
- Implement aac audio choice for mp4 and mkv output containers.
- Work further with AvsP's (python) sources, in order to improve
  integration furthermore.

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Quick AVI Creator version 1.5.17.2008 (May 17th, 2008)
- Initial public release
- AvsP version 2.0.2.0
- DGIndex version 1.4.9.0
- DGDecode version 1.4.9.0
- VirtualDubMod version 1.5.10.2
- XviD version 1.2.127
- x264 version r839
- Vstrip version 0.8f_css
- MediaInfo version 0.7.6.4
- Lame version 3.97
- Valdec version 0.1.a
- Normalize version 0.253
- VSFilter version 1.0.1.4

QAC is developed entirely with nsis which is an open-source installation system with a powerful scripting language and a bunch of plugins. The adequacy and flexibility of nsis indeed offer the ability to use it as a programmable language.
Starting from version 2.4.12.2009 QAC became Unicode application thanks to the great job that has done by the Unicode NSIS advocate.