HandBrake Video Transcoder
HandBrake is a free and open source video transcoder for Linux, Mac, and Windows. With HandBrake you can convert videos of most any format with a codec/file type of your choice. Its initial release was in 2003 GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2.
HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
Reasons you’ll love HandBrake are convert video from nearly any format, free and open Source, and multi-platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux.)
- Built-in Device Presets – Get started with HandBrake in seconds by choosing a profile optimized for your device, or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions. Simple, easy, fast. For those that want more choice, tweak many basic and advanced options to improve your encodes.
- Supported Input Sources – Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.
- Outputs:
- File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV
- Video Encoders: H.265 (x265 and QuickSync), H.264(x264 and QuickSync), H.265 MPEG-4 and MPEG-2, VP8, VP9 and Theora
- Audio Encoders: AAC / HE-AAC, MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis
- Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, E-AC3, DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD, AAC and MP3 tracks
- Even more features:
- Title / chapter and range selection
- Batch Scan and Queueing of encodes
- Chapter Markers
- Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding- Support for VFR and CFR
- Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Denoise, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
- Live Static and Video Preview
Source: HandBrake’s features page
HandBrake Dashboard
From Lifehacker (2014)
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