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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 (304 posts) | Write A Review |
 | 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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 | Dec 1 2009 |
AIMINGHIGH ANy help would be appreciated. I'm trying to rip DVDs that I own into a digital format for playing on a MAC (intel), iphone and potentially appleTV (havent bought this yet). I downloaded handbrake 0.9.4 and have tried a variety of settings for the rip but cant get the film to sync across to the iphone. I have managed to play through itunes and am happy regarding this but wanted to know if others were having problems or whether I am doing anything wrong
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| Dec 6 2009 |
CROW Are you using the presets for iPod encoding? If the files are too large, they will not sync to your iPod/iPhone. Using the preset specifically for iPod will ensure compatibility.
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| Nov 30 2009 |
THE CROW This new version is a considerable improvement over an already invaluable tool. It's faster and more reliable (I was able to transcode videos that crashed the older version). The only problem I've found is quite annoying, though: when re-encoding an mp4 movie that refused to play on my AppleTV (instead of using the preset when encoding the DVD, I tried to make it higher quality. Serves me right), it did a great job, but doubled the length of the movie, adding blank space to the end. My 3-hour movie shows up as a 6-hour movie. It did not increase the file size. This has happened to 3 movies now - always double the original. Note: only when re-encoding an mp4.
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| Nov 28 2009 |
BILLBAR I'm sorry to see the loss of AVI encoding, too. I have friends with windoz boxes who have trouble with MPEG4 files, and, for better or worse, many DVD players can display movies burned as AVI data files. I just re-encoded a 94 minute film from XviD to H-264 and it took only 35 minutes, where a file of similar length would take over a hour with Handbrake v 0.93 on my machine.
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| Nov 26 2009 |
CHRISTIANS Although I like this new version it is a pity avi/divx support has been dropped. :-/ Also, they say it is 10% faster with 64bit. This is very hard to believe because every video codec en/decoder only uses small chunks of memory which is mostly a bit faster with 32bit floating point calculations. Just for the sake of it I did some tests with the previous 32bit version and this 64bit version. 5 tests - converting the same file to mp4. All tests shows this new version is even slower (not much but it was slower) on my Macbook Pro. Anyway, I still like this for ripping DVDs. But I use iVideo Converter now for general converting.
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| Nov 26 2009 |
VGOKLANI The new build of Handbrake is awesome! Just curious, is there a way to get this to work via xGrid? I have three macs, I would like to split the workload...
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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.
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 | Nov 26 2009 |
ROBOTANK I think because the 64-bit releases were too buggy, there is no 64-bit OS X binary of the latest VLC version. HandBrake needs a same-bit version of VLC if it's going to use it for DVD decryption. So, your options are either to use a 32-bit HandBrake build for now, stick with an older 64-bit version of VLC, or use a standalone DVD ripper to strip copy protection before you feed the VIDEO_TS to HB. In that case there is no need to have VLC, as the DVD source is already decrypted. I prefer the third option personally, because a good standalone ripper will often be able to crack advanced copy protection schemes (like RipGuard, etc.) that HB/VLC can't handle.
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| Nov 25 2009 |
ROBACKJA Love Handbrake. The presets are super nice. Easy way to get videos on my iPod for travel and airplane rides. Handbrake is definitely one of those high-quality open-source applications that stand above the rest. One thing I would like to see [in all these encoding apps] is a preference to set the process nice value automatically when the program starts. It doesn't have to be cryptic, like -20 to 20 values, but it could be some simple values like High, Normal, Low. That way every time you want to have encoding jobs going without really effecting your computer's responsiveness, people won't have to drop to a Terminal, find the Handbrake process, and renice it. :)
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| Nov 25 2009 |
MILA06 RIP Avi...
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