HandBrake - The open source video transcoder

HandBrake

HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.


Reasons you’ll love HandBrake:

• Convert video from nearly any format
• Free and Open Source
• Multi-Platform (Windows, Mac and Linux)

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Built-in Device Presets

Get started with HandBrake in seconds by choosing a profile optimised for your device, or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions. Simple, easy, fast. For those that want more choice, tweak many basic and advanced options to improve your encodes.

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Supported Input Sources:

Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.

Outputs:

• File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV
• Video Encoders: H.264(x264 and QuickSync), H.265(x265) MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 (libav), VP8 (libvpx) and Theora (libtheora)
• Audio Encoders: AAC / HE-AAC, MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis
• Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and MP3 tracks

Simple and easy to use - 4 main items to use for beginners

Even more features

• Title / Chapter selection
• Queue up multiple encodes
• Chapter Markers
• Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
• Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
• Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
• Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Denoise, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
• Live Video Preview

Open the video file you want to convert

Indicate where you want to save the converted file

Click START and see the progress of the conversion

The User Guide

HandBrake has an extensive documentation on most of the features in HandBrake and a detailed FAQ page.

Please see the User Guides and FAQ page on HandBrake wiki.

License

Most of HandBrake's source code is covered by the GNU General Public License, version 2. A copy of which is included with every release in the COPYING file. Portions are covered under BSD 3 Clause.

Credits

HandBrake uses a lot of (L)GPL or BSD licensed libraries. Thank you, authors!