HandBrake

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HandBrake
Developed by HandBrake community
Latest release 0.9.2 / February 19, 2008
Written in Objective-C, C, C#
OS Cross-platform
Available in English
Genre DVD ripper
License GNU General Public License
Website http://handbrake.fr/

HandBrake is a software application that can convert a DVD into a MPEG-4 video file in .mp4, .avi, .ogm, or .mkv containers.

Originally developed for BeOS, HandBrake is now cross-platform, and available for Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, HandBrake is free software.

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[edit] Features

[edit] Supported sources

  • Any DVD-like source: VIDEO TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted for non-Windows platforms or unencrypted for all platforms, but protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software) PAL or NTSC, AC-3, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks.

[edit] Outputs

  • File format: MP4, AVI, OGM or MKV.
  • 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.

[edit] Supported file types

[edit] External links