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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 (312 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jan 24 2010 |
0.9.4 x86_64 Is what latest version is called Please amend the status so the current version is not show as out-of-date I have submitted this many times to no effect | |
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 | Jan 18 2010 |
MFABACHE Near, if not completely useless if you have SL/64b. Poor. To deliver with no support, like a car with no gas. Seems to startup and exit well.
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| Jan 13 2010 |
CFHSLIKO i bought a brand new macbook pro just before xmas. I installed the latest handbrake using all 32 bit to rip my dvd's to store them at a smaller size for my ipod. Everything works great other than i am having trouble getting the chapters to rip in the proper order. Any advice?
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| Jan 3 2010 |
MONTY LEE Used to be the "go to" program to rip a DVD, but now it is full of bugs. Most of the problem stems from the fact that with this version and Snow Leopard, it keeps asking for 64-bit VLC to do a rip. The problem is that no version of VLC exists in 64-bits. Their web site says the project is on hold ("VLC will not be available for 64-bits Intel-based Macs until further notice"). Thus HandBrake will not reliably scan (most of the time just says scan complete and not a valid DVD).
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| Dec 20 2009 |
AVIDMCUSER Aside from the problems posted a few lines down, I am also experiencing crashing unexpectedly when attempting to convert QuickTime movies with 'Animation' codec converting to H264 mp4 (which loads fine as the source but fails to start converting and crashes after a few seconds with no progress / time progress noted in the bar before the crash). Several other attempts with other source formats that load as source with different conversion settings have also produced crashing results but i do not recall the exact configs. I will have to look at either installing an older version or unfortunately look into alternatives if i am unable to convert successfully. Very hopeful of fixes as I have until recently been very impressed with HB.
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| Dec 16 2009 |
CROW Wow - I couldn't be more disappointed. The previous version worked almost flawlessly for me - I had occasional crashes, but the encodes were always perfect. This version never crashes on me, but I'm having terrible luck with the encodes. Using the presets for AppleTV, every movie I've done so far has bombed in some way. Transcoding an existing mkv or mp4 to make it AppleTV friendly resulted in a doubling of the length of the movie, with the audio track at half speed (ie. slow-mo audio that's twice the length of the movie). Then I tried backing up my WaterWorld DVD - it looked great for awhile, and then suddenly becomes choppy and watchable - so jittery that it makes you motion sick. Another movie arbitrarily dropped bits of the video, so scenes got cut short. What's happened to this excellent software? This is absolutely horrible! Are others having issues? I upgraded my PowerMac G5 with the old version to an 8-core Mac Pro with this version (64-bit). Any help would be appreciated.
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| Dec 18 2009 |
ROBOTANK Check out the HandBrake forums for answers to support questions. As far as your issue with DVDs, make sure you're following the proper VLC procedure (VLC MUST be installed in /Applications, and the binary must be the same number of bits as the Handbrake binary) if you want DVD encryption within HandBrake. Otherwise try running the DVD through a dedicated ripper (RipIt, MDRP, etc.) then handing HandBrake the unencrypted VIDEO_TS folder for the encode. I've always been a fan of this latter method, since VLC's decryption can fail on DVDs with advanced copy protection.
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| Dec 18 2009 |
CROW Thanks for the comments Robotank. I do indeed have VLC in the right place, with the right bits. I also use RipIt or MTR, and make sure the Video_TS plays fine before encoding. What worked using the AppleTV preset in the previous version right "out of the box" no longer seems to do it. I tried WaterWorld again, this time altering the preset and forcing it to 29.97 fps instead of the preset setting of "same as source". This turned out better - so I may have to use that every time. I never did get the weird audio problem figured out though. I will definitely use the forums for help. Thanks again for the suggestions!
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 | Dec 15 2009 |
JTRENT I recently tried to copy a brand new DVD of both star trek and GI Joe that I bought to transfer to my iphone. For some reason when Handbrake copies the movie the chapters are out of sequence. Does anyone know why this is happening? I am using the new version of Handbrake 0.9.4
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| Dec 13 2009 |
AVIDMCUSER I almost did the backflip of joy when i saw this new version, with all the updated elements and visual interface....until... I wanted to convert to AVI XviD or DivX. This is the file format for my upconvert DVD player I just bought. Really miss it in the new version, simply changing the extension from MKV to AVI doesnt fool my player. Since this file container is missing (albeit obsolete to many - but not yet to me), I have to give it less stars than the complete full 5 stars. Also some h264 encoded movie trailers are converting so that audio pitch is waaaay dowwwwwn lowwwww. :( Can anyone suggest a good post handbrake processing tool to passthrough audio and video from MKV to an AVI container? TYIA
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| Dec 7 2009 |
CORPSECORPS If only more pay software were done this well! Great converter and got some much needed upgrades with this version. I'd give it 5 stars if not for the fact that some of the new elements have a quirk or two. One complaint is that it remembers the positions of the Queue and Activity windows between runs, but NOT the main window. Call it 4.5, perhaps 4.7 stars truncated.
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| Dec 3 2009 |
RUBAIYAT The last 2 versions of Handbrake have become unusable for me. Before that it worked fine. Now it just hangs forever on scanning the file and goes nowhere. It is very difficult talking to the developers in the Forum. They are very touchy and technically introverted.
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