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HandBrake

Name: HandBrake
Rating: 4.75 (135 reviews)

1.3.1

06 January 2020

Versatile video encoder; convert any source to MPEG-4 and more.

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Overview

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

What's new in HandBrake

Version 1.3.1:

The HandBrake Team is pleased to announce the release of HandBrake 1.3.1.

Note: Before updating, please make sure there are no pending encodes in the Queue. If you are currently using HandBrake older than version 1.2.0, please also make note of any custom presets you have created, as they may not be compatible with newer versions.