1. A transcoder comprising: a stream probe that generates stream format identification data corresponding to a video signal containing a moving image stream, an audio stream and a subtitle stream; a plurality of hardware transcoders, including moving image transcoder hardware, audio transcoder hardware and subtitle process hardware; a processing device, that is configurable based on moving image transcoder software, audio transcoder software and subtitle processing software; a transcoder configuration module, coupled to the stream probe, the plurality of hardware transcoders and the processing device that generates configuration data based on the stream format identification data and further based on output selection data that indicates: a container format and a compression format, wherein the configuration data configures the plurality of hardware transcoders and the processing device to selectively generate a processed video signal in the container format and in the compression format, containing a transcoded moving image stream, a transcoded audio stream and a processed subtitle stream, via one of: the moving image transcoder hardware or the moving image transcoder software, to transcode the moving image stream into the transcoded moving image stream; via one of: the audio transcoder hardware or the audio transcoder software, to transcode the audio stream into the transcoded audio stream; and via at least one of: the subtitle process hardware or the subtitle processing software, to process the subtitle stream into the processed subtitle stream.