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HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
Supported Sources:
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.
- File format: MP4 and MKV
- Video: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 or Theora (1 or 2 passes or
What's New
Version 0.9.9:
General:
- Improved HandBrake pineapple icon by Matt Johnson
- Improved Retina-resolution icons within the application, by Nik Pawlak (http://nikpawlak.com)
- Blu-ray (PGS) subtitle support
- works with Foreign Audio Search
- can be Burned-In
- can be passed through to MKV (but not MP4)
- Additional video framerates
- 30, 50, 59.94, 60 fps
- Double framerate ("bob") mode for the deinterlace and decomb filters
- Better audio remix support
- additional mixdowns: 6.1, 7.1, 7.1 (5F/2R/LFE)
- CLI users should note
6chbecomes5point1
- CLI users should note
- better-than-Stereo sources can be upmixed to 5.1
- discard one channel from Stereo sources
- Mono (Left Only), Mono (Right Only)
- additional mixdowns: 6.1, 7.1, 7.1 (5F/2R/LFE)
- Allow the selection of higher audio bitrates where appropriate
- Allow the selection of lower audio samplerates where appropriate
- 8, 11.025, 12, 16 kHz
- Audio dithering (TPDF) when converting to 16-bit FLAC
- Use libavcodec for DTS audio decoding (instead of libdca)
- DTS-ES 6.1 Discrete support
- All graphical interfaces: support for x264's preset, tune and profile options
- alternative to the Advanced panel (which is still available)
- HandBrake-specific option to ensure compliance with a specific H.264 level
- Updated built-in presets
- take advantage of x264 preset/tune/profile support
- removed increasingly suboptimal and irrelevant Legacy presets
- Assorted bug fixes and improvements to the core library (libhb)
- Updated libraries
- x264 r2273-b3065e6
- Libav v9.6
- libbluray 0.2.3
- User Interface has been re-written in WPF
- Includes many small UI enhancements
- Switched to .NET 4 Client Profile
- smaller download for those who don't have .NET 4 Full installed
- Assorted bug fixes
- including better support for Retina displays
- Prevent sleep during encoding and scanning for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
- Drag & Drop files onto the Main window or application icon to scan
- Nicer progress indication on the dock icon
- Preview window improvements and bugfixes
- Updated Growl to 2.0.1
- Notification Center support (when Growl is not installed)
- Assorted bug fixes and improvements
- Use some system libraries rather than bundling
- fontconfig, freetype, libxml2, libass, libogg, libvorbis, libtheora and libsamplerate
- Audio option (-a) will ignore invalid input tracks and encode with only the valid ones
- Allow use of hh:mm:ss format when specifying p-to-p start/stop time
- Advanced audio options
- enable level normalization when downmixing (disabled by default)
- disable audio dithering or select a specific algorithm
Version 0.9.9:
General:
- Improved HandBrake pineapple icon by Matt Johnson
- Improved Retina-resolution icons within the application, by Nik Pawlak (http://nikpawlak.com)
- Blu-ray (PGS) subtitle support
- works with Foreign Audio Search
- can be Burned-In more...
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.6 or later
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| Downloads:1,200,434 |
| Version Downloads:71,169 |
| Type:Multimedia Design : Video |
| License:Free |
| Date:18 May 2013 |
| Platform:Intel 64 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
Supported Sources:
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.
- 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)
- 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
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Gianluca70 reviewed on 29 Mar 2014
Personally I use it for encoding only(hadn't watch a DVD in the last 3 years).
At first it takes a bit to understand all settings and master it but in the long run it will be your everyday tool for encoding h.264/mkv.
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Alex8602 reviewed on 31 Oct 2013
I hope to see an early implementation of H.265/HEVC, when this format (presumably) will begin to gain ground in the near future.
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Turquoise reviewed on 18 Oct 2013
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I am a user of HB and MDRP (Mac DVDRipper PRo) for many years and very happy with both. I came across a commercial DVD, released about 5 years ago, by a very well known studio, that HB and MDRP were NOT able to decrypt completely, producing output that only had about half of the movie, stopping at the exact same point. As mentioned all over the Net, this is usually a sign that the programs have a problem with the encryption scheme being used. Now I understand HB uses the VLC css decryption code, got that, and works fine up to this point on all other DVDs.
The DVD is five years old, so whatever encryption scheme it is using, Handbrake/VLC and MDRP have certainly had enough time to figure out, but apparently haven't (I did report it to MDRP).
RipIt currently has a bundle price deal and was only $3.70 for a five app bundle, so I said, heck, for $3.70 I'll buy RipIt and try it on this DVD. Well RipIt had NO PROBLEM with the DVD and completed successfully, just as a data point.
Now VLC player has no issue playing the movie, so I'm wondering... if HB looks for and uses the VLC decryption code and VLC 'the player' has no problem playing the movie, why can't HB see the entire movie if it is using VLC to do the decryption?
BTW, I tried HB 0.9.9 on both Mac and Windows, with VLC 2.0.8, and on Windows I do have the latest libdvdcss.dll setup correctly in the HB directory (again, no issues with all other commercial DVDs I've thrown at it).
Just curious. and a nod to RipIt. For $3.70, you should get it and have in your toolbox as another option if HB and MDRP fail. Lookup RipIt on the MacUpdate site, there are comments there about how to get the bundle price which is good up until around Sept 28 or so.
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Tommy_Gun reviewed on 18 Aug 2013
But it lacks many output formats imo
Still a must have tool.
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HansMueller4641 reviewed on 23 Jun 2013
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Non-DVD input: works with wmv, avi, mp4, m4v. What other format are you after?
MikeWillis4199 reviewed on 01 Jun 2013
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Smtips reviewed on 23 May 2013
Namely, the thing uses 100% core CPU when converting. Any other video app I use, uses WAY less processing power.
The dev should limit the usage somehow. It's not acceptable for my machine to show 100% CPU usage and for Activity Monitor to show 780% processor usage! (an obvious BUG someplace.
Worst is, when Handbrake - which is the ONLY app I use that ever comes close to maxing my i7 CPU - is running, temps of the CPU climb to 92 degrees celsius (and yes I have excellent cooling)! This is NOT healthy for a processor and WILL cause processor fail and low lifespan. A lot of video apps give you a plain choice whether you want to utilize all CPU. Not this one and I won't use it because I don't want it burning out my machine prematurely. It's just stupid that it arbitrarily does this. Huge Huge shortcoming.
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780% is not a bug, either, it's how OS X reports processor usage across multiple cores. You either have an 8-core Mac or a 4-core Mac with hyperthreading (which appears to the OS to have 8-cores).
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My primary wish is that HandBrake also use the GPU for conversion. Currently it isn't. All the conversion is done through the CPU. But with the new Mac Pros standardizing on GPUs, soon every developer will need to also include GPU processing to do things as quickly as possible on the Mac.
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I never took it to rip DVDs until just recently when I got the idea of extracting the music from a 1999 concert I got on DVD to play on my iPod. I learned that using HandBreak in conjunction with VLC (has the libdvdcss library to circumvent copy protection) would allow me to do this. If successful, I would then use a separate tool to extract the music tracks from the resulting file.
The problem: HB was not able to properly rip my DVD; the file would result in audio and video braking. I tried several times, and with different settings, but the result was the same. My guess is there is some type of copy protection libdvdcss cannot go around. I then used Mac DVDRipper Pro, and it just worked - happily enjoying my music now.
Curious about HB being as highly-regarded as it is, and thinking that the failing to rip my music DVD was due more to my lack of experience at using it than to anything else, I tried it again on a movie I own on DVD. This time it couldn't even scan it, saying the source is not a valid file, or something to that tune. Now the question is, what am I doing wrong? Or is it often HB/VLC combo is not the best solution? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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This file enables you to RIP DVD's with Handbrake, iFFMPEG, and (I believe) VLC.
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Thank you for your help. I thought that the libdvdcss file was already embedded with VLC, which I have installed (I read somewhere that if you have VLC installed, you are good to go). Anyway, I'm going to do what you suggest and see how it goes.
Thank you again.
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I downloaded and installed the file, as you suggested. And this time HandBrake ripped the video without any problems. All is good now.
Thanks a lot for your help.
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Is there an alternate link you recommend?
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I see the movie in iTunes, Apple TV, Quicktime 7, but not Quicktime X; and I see ONLY in VLC the subtitles I've chosen to extract from DVD!
What I have to do? Do I have to change something in the rip settings of Handbrake?
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I wonderer a fixed aspect ratio function ;)
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