HandBrake

Name: HandBrake
Rating: 4.4465 (526 reviews)

Version 1.6.1

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HandBrake 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 version 1.6.1

Updated on Jan 25 2023

Video

Fixed a potential decoder issue that could cause desync with audio (#4788, #4789)

Command line interface

Fixed inability to name external subtitles tracks using --subname
Fixed behavior of quality slider when changing encoders

Information

License

Free

Size

43.3 MB

Developer’s website

https://handbrake.fr/

Downloads

1480042

App requirements

Intel 64
Apple Silicon
macOS 10.13 or later

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Aargl

Jan 23 2023

1.6.0

4.0

Version: 1.6.0

Seven years later, Handbrake is still my conversion workhorse. Only on some old device I have issues using its converted videos (sound drops) where iFFmpeg (now ffWorks) gives no issue for the same source file and comparable settings.

johnrjordandesign

Jan 15 2022

1.5.1

1.0

Version: 1.5.1

I had an old version on Handbrake on an old mac that worked great, just took a long time. It was great to travel with a selection of movies. Now this version is fast but its alternates between clear and pixelated throughout the whole movie rip. How do I get the old version or is there something I should be doing different to rip?

Septic Monkey

Mar 4 2021

1.3.3

5.0

Version: 1.3.3

Love this app -- it's the tits !!! It's the only app that converts video without producing a pixel-ridden result or black blocks that seem to take up a lot of screen room. It's straight-forward and simple to use. Oh, and let's not forget it's free !!!

OhEssex

Nov 1 2020

Certainly can't complain about the price. Sadly, there have been user interface issues that have plagued this software for years. Adding stuff to the queue is counter-intuitive and the encoding settings doesn't seem to hold between items in the queue. With not all that much effort this software could be really great - if I knew how to program I'd step up...

Rfleisch

Aug 10 2020

This App does it all when it come to video re-encoding. And It's FREE!

MyronV9060

Jun 16 2020

Excellent tool. Using it to convert old video files that no longer open under QuickTime to current standard format. Reduces file sizes as well without losing quality.

Ptrix

Jun 15 2020

This has been an absolutely indispensable app, but I do NOT understand why the "Target Size" option was removed in the past. I understand that it was not 100% accurate, but it was certainly very useful and "good enough" for downsizing large media files. I very strongly believe that it should be re-added, and if not into the application, than at least as some kind of optional add-on or extension. Because of this, I've not updated my copy from version 0.9.5 :(

l-studio

Excellent aplication

Derekcurrie

√ Mac Essential

GladysR7247

May 5 2020

1.3.2

Version: 1.3.2

Thanks for update

cmmce

Apr 24 2020

1.3.1