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EDITOR NOTES
The 'Download Now' link yields the 64-bit Intel version. See 'Related Links' for links to the 32-bit Intel version, and to the PPC version.
DESCRIPTION
HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded video encoding tool.
Supported Sources:
- Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files
- Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.
Outputs:
- File format: MP4 and MKV
- Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
- Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 and DTS pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)
Misc features:
- Chapter selection
- Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
- Integrated bitrate calculator
- Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
- Grayscale encoding
WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.9.4: - New build system, allowing 64-bit binaries (around 10% faster)
- Soft subtitles and Closed Captions:
- DVD Closed Captions
- ATSC Closed Captions
- SRT subtitle import
- Text soft subtitles in MP4 and MKV output
- Bitmap soft subtitles in MKV output
- Better support for DVD inputs:
- Uses libdvdnav
- DVD angles support
- Workaround for libdvdread malloc bomb on invalid PGC entry
- DVD drive region detection support in Linux
- Handles DVD programs with more than 16 streams - No longer tries to detect and discard duplicate titles when scanning
- Libdvdnav patched to perform read error recovery
- Libdvdread patched to allow raw device access in Windows
- Handles poorly mastered DVDs that had the menus ripped out of them
- Better support for non-DVD inputs:
- Preserves MP4 metadata
- TrueHD
- DTS-HD demuxing
- 8 bit audio
- Better handling of transport streams where audio starts first
- Better handling of transport streams that have been spliced together, leading to duplicate timestamps
- Better VC-1 frame detection
- Fixes bug that was causing one sec. of audio to be dropped on many ffmpeg files
- Looks harder for aspect ratio info from DV sources
- No longer truncates the last (dummy) chapter
- Allows specifying field parity for detelecine and decomb
- Better AV sync
- Support for sources with no audio
- DTS passthrough for MKV
- x264 bumped from r1169 to r1347, which means speed optimizations, new default settings (see r2742 commit comment), the magic of macroblock tree rate control (mbtree), a new CRF curve (meaning you will get different, generally lower bitrates at the same RF, with similar quality metrics), and weighted P-Frames (disabled by default for Baseline encodes and the AppleTV preset).
- Better sample interleaving
- Better, optional deinterlacer for decomb (EEDI2)
- New mode structure for the decomb filter
- Variable verbose logging levels
- Fixed timing for first two frames coming out of filters
- Libtheora bumped to 1.1.0
- Improvements to our theora implementation (2 pass encoding + soft target rate control)
- Caters to Theora's insistence on content having mod16 framing dimensions specified
- Flushes LAME encoder's final packets
- Fixed interjob framerate calculation
- Fixed pthreads regression in cygwin
- Tweaks for packaging tools
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| HandBrake User Reviews (297 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 23 2008 |
ZWILLIAMS Great software getting better, now if only it had softsub support it would be the end all solution.
(Version 0.9.3) | |
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 | Nov 24 2008 |
EDDYG2 We've got soft subs working using .srt files, however weren't sure how to package it, and had issues with the srt files just about always having the sub timestamps offset by quite a margin from the video. Hopefully if we can figure that out it will be in a future release, you wouldn't want it as-is
(Version 0.9.3) | |
 | Nov 25 2009 |
ROBOTANK I think this is a fantastic update to HandBrake. It includes numerous improvements and updates to HB's encoding libraries and features. I think many users will especially appreciate the improved options for handling subtitles. The absence of XviD/AVI isn't an issue for me, since I never used HB to output to those formats anyway. I much prefer x264 in an MP4 container, and HB is the perfect tool for these encodes. While I understand that some people still have uses for XviD/AVI, I don't think there's much point in lamenting their disappearance from HB--the developers have made it pretty clear that they won't return. There are still plenty of video conversion tools out there that support these formats (VisualHub, iVideo Converter, etc.). I don't think that HandBrake has ever aimed to be a do-everything utility like VisualHub. It's clear in this version that it has a particular focus, x264 encoding, and it does it very well.
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| Nov 23 2008 |
SWORDFISH "Universal input: HandBrake is no longer limited to DVDs" This is so awesome, thank you very much!
(Version 0.9.3) | |
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| Nov 25 2009 |
BOUSOZOKU 64-bit version complained that I didn't have a 64-bit version of VLC. When it directed me to the VLC downloads page, there was no 64-bit version of VLC (that I could find) anyway.
(Version 0.9.4) | |
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| Nov 24 2009 |
PENNYHEAD1 Improvements are really nice specifically preview and angle support. The preview window shudders when making it larger or smaller. I don't know if it's my machine (2009 17" MBP) or not. Tanks for a great free app!!!
(Version 0.9.4) | |
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| Oct 27 2009 |
BDKENNEDY1 The dev team has no way to test this old technology themselves and users aren't willing to test it for bugs, so they dropped it. The dev team is not a brick and mortar building with 100 employees and unlimited resources. The dev team is several software developers donating their spare time from their homes to keep this software going. No one is going to spend dozens of hours writing and testing code that 4 people are going to use.
(Version 0.9.3) | |
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| Nov 3 2009 |
LMP I disagree. Just because a vocal minority does not care for XviD/AVI support, does not mean that there is no silent majority that wants this support. Look at it this way: how many audio applications support .ogg and AAC, but not MP3? AVI is the MP3 of video. It plays anywhere, and its quality is good enough for most users. Dropping support for AVI is like iTunes dropping support for MP3 in favor of AAC. It might be a good move from a purely technological point of view, but how many people prefer MP3 because it's more compatible?
(Version 0.9.3) | |
| Nov 9 2009 |
TLMURRAY I must disagree as well. "Old" does not always mean no one uses it any more. There are plenty of technologies (codecs, file types) that have been around for years and years. And if you're thinking no one uses AVI or XviD, perhaps it's because they are not a vocal crowd. If it works, why contact you? As soon as you kill off AVI and XviD, you'll hear from them. You'd better have a supporting version waiting in the wings!
(Version 0.9.3) | |
| Sep 27 2009 |
XBOXSUMO Works very good just got to know your way around. Takes along time sometimes.
(Version 0.9.3) | |
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| Aug 29 2009 |
APPLEJACK78 After trying videovangelist I found this with the 'other people suggest' link. - Interface is out dated. - Good amount of settings to dig into. - Quality is from average to very good - PSP preset only plays well with H264. The default MPEG4 settings doesnt work with PSP3000 - 2pass encoding works like it should. - Couldnt select aspect ratio. - Not a real preview. Only a frame-shot of the source. This should be at least a shot of the destination result. In the end it actually works very well. Good tool
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 | Feb 25 2009 |
FRONTPORCH Always been a big fan of Handbrake. When I upgraded to 0.9.3, I was having the problem with scrambled videos. I was about to give up, but I discovered that I had to had the latest version of VLC PLayer on my machine. Once I updated VLC, the scrambling problems went away. Keep on rippin!
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 | Dec 10 2008 |
SAM ROWLANDS Sadly 0.9.3 is broke for me. I tried to find somewhere on the website to submit a bug report, but it appears that the only support is the forum. 0.9.3 sits on 0.01% and never processes the movie file. I get a single entry in the console. '12/10/08 2:04:04 PM [0x0-0x6e56e5].org.m0k.handbrake HandBrake(41890,0xb05ea000) malloc: *** error for object 0x1ddde10: double free ' I also tried to download a previous version, but could only find 0.9.1 not 0.9.2, a bit uncomfortable downgrading 2 versions, but at least I can continue to convert my DVDs so work on the iPhone. I hope they figure this out and correct it as Handbrake has been reliable and I've been very happy with it the past.
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