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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 (even encrypted)
- PAL or NTSC
- AC-3, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks
- Outputs:
- File format: MP4, AVI or OGM
- Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer encoding)
- Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 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 0.9.3: - Universal input HandBrake is no longer limited to DVDs: it will now accept practically any type of video as a source. This massive enhancement was achieved by tapping into the power of libavcodec and libavformat from the FFmpeg project.
- Video quality The x264 project has really come into its own this year, and HandBrake 0.9.3 integrates the latest improvements to the H.264 encoding library. Picture quality has enhanced dramatically through the use of psychovisual rate distortion and adaptive quantization, and there have been significant speed optimizations.
- Audio flexibility HandBrake now offers total control over multiple audio tracks.
- No more internal DVD decryption Yeah, we know, no one reading this is going "Oh wow, no more DVD decryption--what a great new feature!" but...deal. HandBrake will dynamically load VLC's copy of libdvdcss if you have it in your Applications folder in Mac OS X. We're not about to stop you from choosing to decrypt DVDs. If you're on a Mac, and you have VLC 0.9.x installed, you won't even notice the internal capability's gone.
- Persistent queues When queueing up a bunch of videos to encode, you need no longer fear a crash in HandBrake's graphical interfaces. Queued jobs are cached to disk for safekeeping between sessions.
- New, better organized presets (Be sure to run "Update Built-In Presets" from the Presets menu!) The presets are now "nested" in folders and have evolved. Notably, there is a new Apple "Universal" preset, designed to play and look good doing so on anything from an iPod Nano to an AppleTV. There have been many changes to most of them. Please be aware that most presets now use different settings. This means most of them are not suited for benchmarking 0.9.3 against 0.9.2. For example, the AppleTV preset is slower because it is now quality based, and produces much more efficient output. The Normal preset uses psychovisual rate distortion. The High Profile presets use psychovisual trellising. All of these setting changes can influence encoding time and output file size.
For comparison purposes, there are several presets in the Apple->Legacy folder (the old iPod High-Rez, the old AppleTV, and the old iPhone presets) which remain unchanged since 0.9.2.
- Audio-video synchronization HandBrake should now keep lip-synch as well as a DVD player can.
- Decomb filter HandBrake now offers a decomb filter, in the style of AviSynth's. It is a deinterlacer that can be left on all the time without degrading picture quality, because it only deinterlaces video when it visibly needs to be.
- Multi-threaded deinterlacing The "Slow" and "Slower" filters, as well as the new decomb filter, will now take advantage of as many processors as you can throw at them.
- "Same as source framerate" really is the same as the source framerate HandBrake now, by default, passes through the exact video framerate of the source instead of smoothing to a constant rate, which could lead to frames being duplicated or dropped.
- Theora video encoding HandBrake now can encode video using the Theora codec.
- Updated libraries Besides x264, updated libraries include libsamplerate, libogg, xvidcore, libmpeg2, lame, faac, and ffmpeg's libavcodec, libavformat, and libswscale.
- Massive improvements to all interfaces
As hard as it might be to believe, the changes listed above are only the tip of the iceberg. A much longer list is available, but even that is only a brief summary. There have been well over 600 changes to HandBrake's code base since 0.9.2, including hundreds of bug fixes.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| HandBrake User Reviews (273 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jun 19 2009 |
ARCHAEOGEEK Fairly good application, supports a good number of formats and seems to have little issues with encryption - however I consider two main issues: - Someone already mentioned it, the expectation of VLC being in /Applications instead of a subfolder. I, too, tend to be a bit obsessive about that stuff - minor quibble though. - The lack of support for ripping closed captioning tracks. It's been fairly frequent for me to find french, spanish and english DVD in Region 1 lacking them - I'm fairly fluent in all three, the big issue is that I'm Deaf, so it's not like I can seriously do without. It feels pretty ironic to have a rip of something like Through Deaf Eyes where the spoken parts are incomprehensible due to the captions being gone. Any app that rips CC and converts properly to less meaty formats than full-size DVD will get wads of users, and not just the geeky Deaf.
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 | Jun 19 2009 |
MAC ADAM I noticed some more "sacades" from 0.93, I wonderer a fixed aspect ratio function ;)
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| May 17 2009 |
DBAGDADI The download I get for 0.9.3 is only an Intel binary (no PPC). Is this app no longer supported on PPC systems?
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| May 17 2009 |
DBAGDADI Nevermind! I didn't see the additional links. My bad :(
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| Mar 4 2009 |
MICHAEL CEO I travel a lot and needed an app to rip my DVDs onto my iPhone -- Handbrake did this beautifully. Thanks a lot for making this great app!
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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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 | Feb 10 2009 |
LUWEN Handbrake is always the best tool to rip DVDs. How to Rip DVDs to iPod, iPhone, etc. with Handbrake.
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| Jan 25 2009 |
EDSTATE Also, one thing I've noticed, as observed by others: this version seems to SKIP chapter titles for some reason. I put in a DVD w/ FIVE 30-minute "episodes" on it, but this version of handbrake only gave me ONE, TWO and FOUR. | |
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| Jan 4 2009 |
EDSTATE This upgrade is working for me on DVDs that previously would "suddenly quit" during encoding. I have a custom setting for H264 MP4 that produces a small, but gorgeous file, that I use on my XBox 360. And while the preset name, and settings are still there, it seems to always want to save the file as an m4v instead of an mp4. I've tried outputting the same file and just changing the extension... which works on my Mac, but not on my 360, which only wants to read .mp4s. The piggybacking on VLC seems to be helping w/ my previously un-encodable DVDs, however, the fact that you have to have VLC in your ~/Applications folder is annoying. To keep my Applications folder clean and tidy, I have all of my "video stuff" in a ~/Applications/Video. It would be great if you could simply "point" Handbrake to VLC, wherever you want to keep it in your system. Other than those two minor quibbles, it seems to be a decent upgrade for me, a "non-power user".
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| Jan 5 2009 |
AR The setting for .m4v is under preferences - general. Deselect the iPod/iTunes friendly extension option.
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| Dec 29 2008 |
OZZPOT This 0.93 update is also causing major issues for me. It now takes more than 10 minutes to even scan a DVD. 0.92 took no more than 10 seconds... ...and when it does finally finish scanning, it only seems to recognize a fraction of the titles on the disc. I will have to revert to 0.91 as 0.92 is no longer available, and I have no backups. Please sort this out!!! BTW by system is a 24" C2D iMac 2.8ghz, 4gb RAM, 10.5.6.
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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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