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

Version 1.1.2:

Note: If you are currently using HandBrake older than version 1.0.0 on macOS Sierra or later, please manually download and install HandBrake 1.1.2.

• Remedies issues reported with the 1.1.0 release.

I am a big fan and true believer of HandBrake. I have been using it for more than 6 years to convert MKV or WMV movies to mp4 to add them to my iTunes Library or watch them on iPad or Apple TV. It's a very easy-to-use app and provides a lot of options for performing the conversion. It has given me the greatest service during the past 6 years, so as I have never looked for other competent apps.

The only thing that makes it a little cumbersome is that it crops the movie frame in some situations; therefore, I have to go to the Picture Settings section and check the size of the output movie frame and remove the cropping if necessary. This makes it a little awkward when I need to convert a huge batch of MKV files. This is the only reason that I give it a rating value of 4.5.
Also, if HandBrake developers provide a rather new UI to enable doing the conversion in batch, it will become so much better.

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