StaxRip is an open-source program that can be used to convert one type of video format into many other high quality video formats. It makes use of the script based video conversion tools such as AVISynth and VapourSynth. It is considered a very efficient application for converting MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, x264 videos to other formats. The output application formats can be anything from DivX, XviD or x264. In addition, the program supports output audio formats: MP3, AC3, AAC or Ogg Vorbis.
StaxRip is available for Windows only and provides downloads for both the 32-bit and the 64-bit versions of Windows. The download package comes with everything you would need including the setup installer for AVISynth without which it won’t work. But if you are not using Windows 10, then you will have to install Microsoft .NET framework 4.7 on your PC first.
The software has a very easy to follow interface. You can begin by selecting a source for video such as one or more files. You can choose to merge these files during the conversion as well. The target file is automatically selected but you can customize it yourself.
After this, you can select filters, video format, audio format and the video options. Using the filters you can do so many things such as remove the noise, crop the video frame, resize the video and more. You can add more than one audio sources to your video file, for example, voice over for your videos. After this you can click on the Next button to start the video conversion or merging.
The whole progress of the video and audio conversion is displayed in another window that pops up on your screen. After the video and audio conversion is complete, they are muxed together in the selected video format and you can now check the new video.
StaxRip is very fast and uncomplicated video encoder and conversion software which can be used by both the newbies and advanced users alike. It uses popular open-source tools for all the encoding and conversion can be big help for vloggers who upload their videos online regularly.
You can download StaxRip from https://github.com/stax76/staxrip/releases.