Free lame encoder software for mac

iTunes-LAME Encoder 2.0.9.34 is a distinguished and tractable tool which combines the simple interface of iTunes and the high quality of the LAME encoder.

Major Features:

1. Supports international titles and has multiprocessor support.
2. Can convert AAC and other audio files to MP3s.
3. Can cache tracks to disk for faster encoding.

BladeEnc is a MPEG 1 Layer III (MP3) encoder based on the ISO reference code. It makes MP3 files from AIFF, WAV and raw PCM files. It supports many bitrates, from 32 to 320 kbps. Best of all, its completely free with source code available.
Main features:
- Many bitrates: 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256 and 320 kbps
- Many sample rates: 48, 44.1 and 32 kHz
- Drag & drop support (drag AIFFs or WAVs on BladeEnc to encode them)
- Control over most original BladeEnc options
- Free, GNU lesser general public license.
Enhancements:
- upgraded to BladeEnc engine 0.92.6. This hopefully fixes the crashing bugs people have been experiencing in the end of the encoding process.

BladeEnc 1.4 is an innovative and versatile MPEG 1 Layer III (MP3) encoder based on the ISO reference code. It makes MP3 files from AIFF, WAV and raw PCM files. It supports many bitrates, from 32 to 320 kbps. Best of all, it's completely free with source code available.

BitVice MPEG2 Encoder SD 2.8.1 is developed as a useful tool which uses the latest technology and science to compress your movies into MPEG2 elementary video streams.

BitVice is the Industy standard for encoding MPEG-2 files on mac computers. The video streams produced by BitVice are MPEG2 compliant, and as such, they can be mounted in any compliant DVD authoring or multiplexing tool.

The BitVice is a stand-alone software and makes use of QuickTime features when it comes to reading the movie you want to compress.

Written by a few top of the world MPEG engineers, BitVice is the best real-world solution for you to produce high-end MPEG2 videos, suitable for DVD products, commercial spots or wherever you need an MPEG2 video encoding of the highest quality per bitrate available today.

Major Features:

1. Scene change detection
2. True Variable Bit Rate
3. Adaptive GOP structure
4. IBP GOP sequences
5. Special still picture encoding
6. Adaptive Quantization and Bit Rate Control
7. Interleaved rate control
8. Extensive block matching
9. DV input color and gamma correction
10. Good control of the generated file size

Requirements:

• BitVice 2.8.1 runs on INTEL and PPC Mac's:
• • A Macintosh with Intel or PPC processor(s)
  • Mac OS X Leopard - Mac
  • Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard
  • QuickTime 5.0 or later

Transcoder is a tool to compress MPEG2 video files, to allow the multiplexed audio and video files to fit on a single DVD-R.
Main features:
- Batch encoder Automatic calculation of bitrate needed to encode video Only senses 29.97.
- 25 fps NTSC and PAL.
Enhancements:
- Added multiplex function
- Added VIDEO_TS folder creation
- Added disk image creation
- Added diskspace availability checking
- Plugins updated to latest available versions
- Interface Makeover
- Other Bugfixes
- (plus minor bugfixes to 1.1b1,1.1b2).

X Lossless Decoder 20090924 (XLD) is a comprehensive and easy-to-use tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.3 and later.

Major Features:

1. Support various formats
   • XLD supports the following formats:
   • • (Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.ogg)
     • Monkey's Audio (.ape)
     • Wavpack (.wv)
     • TTA (.tta)
     • Apple Lossless (.m4a) [10.4 and later]
     • AIFF, WAV, etc
   • Other formats supported by Libsndfile are also decodable. XLD uses not decoder frontend but library to decode, so no intermediate files are generated. All of the supported formats can be directly split with the cue sheet. XLD also supports so-called 'embedded' or 'internal' cue sheet.
   • Currently you can choose output format from WAVE,AIFF and Raw PCM. In addition, you can choose Ogg Vorbis (aoTuV), MPEG-4 AAC (QuickTime/CoreAudio), MP3 (LAME), Apple Lossless, FLAC, HE-AAC (aacPlus v1/v2), Wave64 and WavPack in the GUI version.
   • XLD version 20080812 and later can be used as a CD ripper. You can convert each track in your audio CD into the desired format. Also XLD supports output a CD image with cue sheet (wav+cue, flac+cue, etc).
2. Plug-in oriented design: Frontend and backend of XLD are prefectry separated, so the frontend is able to access the various decoder with the same interface. If they provide plug-in interface in the future, you can easily develop the plug-in of the new format. If you are interested in this, please see XLDDecoder.h in the source files.

Enhancements:

• Fixed a problem of ALAC metadata reader on Snow Leopard
• Fixed a problem that autoloading disc was not working on Snow Leopard
• XLD now accepts cover arts dragged from web browsers
• Implemented an interactive bitrate indicator for AAC ture VBR encoder
• Fixed a problem when reading ISRC tag in FLAC files

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 and later.