HandBrake

HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.

Features

• Supported Sources
• VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted -- CSS is not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), BDMV folder (unencrypted), and some .VOB and .TS files
• Any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.
• Outputs
• File format: MP4 and MKV
• Video: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
• Audio: AAC, HE-AAC, AC3, MP3, Vorbis, FLAC (16-bit, 24-bit) or AAC, MP3, AC3, DTS and DTS-HD pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)
• Miscellaneous features
• Chapter selection
• Soft subtitle support (DVD/VobSub in DVD/MKV/MP4, Blu-ray/PGS in BD/MKV, SRT files, SRT/UTF-8 in MKV, ASS/SSA in MKV, TX3G/3GPP in MP4 - DVD/VobSub, Blu-ray/PGS and ASS/SSA subtitles can also be burned-in the picture)
• Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
• Grayscale encoding

General

• Improved user interface
• Redesigned main window for consistency and usability; overall flow is top to bottom, left to right
• Added new preset controls directly in main workflow
• Added new summary tab for overview of settings at a glance
• Updated interface icons to support high resolution displays
• New and improved official presets
• Added new presets for Vimeo and YouTube
• Added new 2160p/4K device presets for Apple TV, Chromecast, Fire TV, and Roku
• Added new Production presets for post-production video editing workflows
• Added additional 2160p/4K Matroska presets
• Improved AppleTV 4K support
• Improved Intel QuickSync Video support
• Added Linux support (experimental)
• Added 10-bit H.265/HEVC encoding support for Kaby Lake and newer CPUs
• Added support for multiple GPUs via D3D11 encode path
• Many bug fixes and improvements

Video

• Added new Unsharp and kernel-based Laplacian LapSharp sharpening filters
• Added CSM prefilter option to NLMeans filter
• Added support for mobile device orientation via auto-rotation container flag
• x265 10- and 12-bit encoders are now included by default; additional dll files are no longer required

Command line interface

• Added support for adaptive streaming (SPS and PPS before IDR frames) via the --inline-parameter-sets parameter
• Added --json parameter to output scan/status information in JSON format, useful for scripting
• Audio sample rate parameter --arate now accepts "auto" as a valid value

Build system

• Added support for FreeBSD 11.1 (must compile from source)
• Added support for compiling on Windows under MSYS (experimental, slow)
• Updated to mingw-w64-build 3.1.1 with support for mingw-w64 5.0.3 and gcc 7.2.0
• Update mac-toolchain-build to add NASM 2.13.2 (now required for x264)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Other

• Added option to configure low disk space warning level
• Improved support for VoiceOver navigation
• Many other bug fixes and improvements