HC is a simple to use MPEG2 video encoder and is meant for creating MPEG2 video streams with a strong focus on DVD-compliancy.

Input can be a d2v project or input using Avisynth. HC expects as input YUV-planes (YV12 color space 4:2:0). During the encoding process there are no color plane conversions, the encoder keeps the color planes in YV12 color space.

There's no fancy GUI, the input is controlled by a series of commands in the file HC.ini. The encoder runs in a command prompt window, during the encoding process information is written in the command window.

Output is a regular m2v file which can be used directly in your favourite authoring program.