HandBrake Alternatives

HandBrake is described as 'An open-source multithreaded video transcoder, HandBrake compresses and converts digital media, supporting MP4, MKV formats, and offers hardware-accelerated conversion' and is a leading Video Converter in the cd/dvd tools category. There are more than 100 alternatives to HandBrake for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best HandBrake alternative is FFmpeg, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like HandBrake are Shutter Encoder, Avidemux, VidCoder and File Converter.

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HandBrake alternatives are mainly Video Converters, but if you're looking for Audio Converters or Video Editors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows, Android, Mac, Linux, Google Chrome, Windows + Open Source and DVD Ripper. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to HandBrake.
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  1. The Mobile Media Converter is a free video and audio converter for converting between popular desktop media formats like MP3, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis Audio (ogg), Wave Audio (wav), MPEG video, AVI, Windows Media Video (wmv), Flash Video (flv), QuickTime Video (mov)...

    130 Mobile Media Converter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. iFunia DVD Ripper is an easy-to-use yet powerful application that can rip DVDs to any output format. It can rip both homemade and commercial DVDs, convert multiple DVD titles/chapters in batches, and merge episodes into one.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  3. WebM for bakas. Basically, a wrapper around ffmpeg made for converting videos to WebM without having to use the command line.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Simple x264/x265 Launcher is a Video Converter & lightweight GUI front-end for the x264 H.264/AVC as well as the x265 H.265/HEVC encoder, based on the Qt toolkit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. macXvideo icon
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    Free edit, shrink, resize and encode 4K/5K/8K/HD/SD videos on Mac at 5X faster speed with no quality loss.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    macXvideo supports more output video formats than HandBrake

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    • macXvideo is Free and ProprietaryHandBrake is Free and Open Source
  6. CineCinch icon
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    Find and compress space-hogging videos with a simple Windows tool that analyzes folders, ranks inefficient files, and batch-compresses them using H.265 — no complicated presets or command lines.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Selene is an audio/video converter for converting files to various formats. It aims to provide a simple GUI for converting files to popular formats along with powerful command-line options for automated/unattended encoding.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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