HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.
Here is a detailed breakdown of HandBrake’s features:
- Built-in Device Presets—Get started with HandBrake in seconds by choosing a profile optimized 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.
- Supported Input Sources—Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or Blu-ray sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.
Outputs:
- File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV
- Video Encoders: H.265 (x265 and QuickSync), H.264(x264 and QuickSync), H.265 MPEG-4 and MPEG-2, VP8 and Theora
- Audio Encoders: AAC / HE-AAC, MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis
- Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, E-AC3, DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD, AAC and MP3 tracks
Additional 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, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and Scaling
- Live Video Preview
HandBrake 1.0.2 changelog:
All platforms/ Video
- Fixed point to point encoding end point when using frames as the unit
- Improve error handling for libdvdread and libavcodec decoders
Audio
- Fixed an issue where fallback encoder bitrate was not set properly
Subtitles
- Fixed incorrect duration for UTF-8 subtitles
- Fixed an issue causing extra blank lines for UTF-8 subtitles in MKV
Linux
- Fixed an issue sometimes preventing dragging and dropping of presets between folders
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
Mac
- Fixed video encoder options not reset when changing encoders
- Fixed incomplete encodes where the chapter count differs on queued items
- Fixed sleep prevention not working in certain scenarios
- Fixed automatic naming for EyeTV bundles
- Added additional checks to prevent source file overwriting
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
Windows
- Fixed video encoder options not reset when changing encoders
- Fixed subtitles defaults behaviors to improve how tracks are added
- Fixed issues related to source maximum and custom picture setting modes
- Fixed point to point settings when editing a queued job
- Fixed When Done controls not updating correctly on various screens
- Fixed split buttons not working correctly on audio and subtitles tabs
- Fixed destination path and file name error checking
- Fixed potential crash by disabling OpenCL detection when the scaler is not set to OpenCL Bicubic (workaround for broken system drivers)
- Fixed a potential crash when QSV is supported but disabled at the BIOS level
- Fixed memory leaks in the QSV encoder
- Added QSV detection for Intel Kaby Lake CPUs
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
Download: HandBrake 1.0.2 (32-bit) | 9.7 MB (Open Source)
Download: HandBrake 1.0.2 (64-bit) | 10.1 MB
Links: HandBrake Website | Other Operating Systems