Handbrake

HandBrake is a multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS but now works on various systems.

Supported sources:

  • Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (even encrypted)
  • PAL or NTSC
  • AC-3, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks

Outputs:

  • File format: MP4, AVI or OGM
  • Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer encoding)
  • Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Misc features

  • Chapter selection
  • Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
  • Integrated bitrate calculator
  • Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
  • Grayscale encoding

Last updated 24 Apr, 2006


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Requirements
  • See here for complete list http://handbrake.m0k.org/?page_id=2 (Build Prerequisite)

Versions

0.7.1

0.7.1 released on 2006-03-13

User Community and Support

http://homepage.mac.com/johnmm/HandBrake.CLI.Guide/

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