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Editor Rating 4.5

Version: 0.10.2	Size: 15.30 MB
License [?]: Open Source	Price: Not available
Last Updated: Sep 18, 2015	Category: Video Converters Software
Developer: The HandBrake Team
Operating System: Mac Linux Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 Windows 8 Windows Server 2012 Windows 10
Additional Requirements: Windows Vista or later; Mac OS X 10.6 or later; Ubuntu
Limitations Not available

HandBrake is an open-source multithreaded video transcoder, available for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.

The video transcoder of Handbrake converts your videos to formats that's useful on your computers, media centers and portable or mobile devices.

HandBrake can process most common video and audio files and any DVD or Blu-ray sources but it does not defeat any kind of copy protection. It is not a DVD or Blue-ray ripper.

It's easy to get started with HandBrake. Simply choose a profile optimized for your device or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions. For advanced users, tweak the advanced options to improve your encodes.

Features:

• Batch converter
• Queue up multiple encodes
• Live video preview
• Editing tools
• Title or Chapter selection
• Splitting into chapters
• Chapter markers
• Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
• Converts online videos
• Converts audio files
• Support for VFR and CFR
• Video filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Denoise, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and Scaling

Supported input formats:

• 3GP
• Audio Video Interleave (AVI)
• Blue-ray Video
• DVD Video
• FLV
• Matroska (MKV)
• MP4
• MPEG Transport Stream (TS)
• BDAV MPEG-2 Transport Stream (M2TS)
• MPEG-PS
• Ogg
• QuickTime
• SVCD
• TC
• TOD
• VCD
• WMV

Supported output:

Container formats:

• Matroska (MKV)
• MP4
• iTunes Video (M4V)

Video formats:

• MPEG-4 (ffmpeg)
• MPEG-2 (ffmpeg)
• VP8 (libvpx)
• VP3 (Theora)
• H.265 (x265)
• H.264 (x264 and Intel Quick Sync Video)

Audio formats:

• Audio Encoders: HE-AAC, AAC (libav), MP3, FLAC (16-bit and 24-bit) and Vorbis
• Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and MP3

Supported target devices:

• Apple-TV
• iPad
• iPhone
• iPod
• Android