HandBrake
Open-source HandBrake offers video transcoding, supporting MP4, MKV formats, 4K rendering, and lossless audio. It allows picture cropping, subtitle handling, encrypts DVD ripping, and operates efficiently offline.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- Haiku
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Video Converter
- Ad-free
- Batch processing
- Audio Conversion
- Batch conversion
- Graphical User Interface
- GPU Support
- No registration required
- Support for subtitles
- Dark Mode
- Convert video to audio (mp3)
- Works Offline
- Command line interface
- Support for 4K
- No Tracking
- Lossless Audio
- Disc Burner
- Blu-Ray ripping
- HEVC
- Hardware Accelerated
- Convert DVD to AVI
- Portable
- Support for scripting
- Mts to mp4
Tags
- ffmpeg
- h-265
- h-265-encoder
- mpeg-4
- video-transcoder
- hevc-encoder
- iphone-converter
- hevc-h-265
- convert-video-to-apple-tv
- Xfce
- ipad-video-converter
- compressor
HandBrake News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about HandBrake
HandBrake 1.10 adds Social 10MB presets, metadata improvements, and enhanced AV1 supportHandBrake 1.10 has been released, adding Social 10MB presets for platforms with strict file size li...
- POX published news article about HandBrake
Handbrake 1.9 released with new Intel QSV VVC decoder & support for lossless VP9 encodingHandbrake has released version 1.9 of its video transcoding software, introducing several new featu...
- Danilo_Venom published news article about HandBrake
HandBrake 1.8.2 arrives with bug fixes, improved stability and support for FFmpeg 7.0.2HandBrake 1.8.2 has been officially released with various bugs across Linux, macOS, and Windows pla...
Recent activities
ryahn added HandBrake as alternative to ffmpeg_encode- lnobile liked HandBrake
EPLNews added HandBrake as alternative to Xtranscoder
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What is HandBrake?
HandBrake is an open-source, multithreaded video transcoder – it compresses and converts digital media from one format to another. HandBrake can rip encrypted DVDs with libdvdcss (libdvdcss is installed with VLC media player on macOS, or AnyDVD/DVD 43 on Windows).
Supports • Any Blu-ray or DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD, and some .VOB, .m2ts, and .TS files. Without VLC, HandBrake requires media to be unencrypted or already decrypted by third-party programs (i.e. DVD rippers). • Almost any other multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.
Outputs • File format: MP4 and MKV • Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora • Audio: AAC, CoreAudio AAC (macOS Only), MP3, or Vorbis. AC-3 pass-through, DTS pass-through (MKV only)
Other features • Support of chapter selections • Support of subtitles • Integrated bitrate calculator • Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling • Live Video Preview
HandBrake information
Developed by
HandBrake TeamLicensing
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Rating
Average rating of 4.4Alternatives
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Comments and Reviews
Fast, reliable, easy to use, batch conversation and an awesome icon. Love it!
The name handbrake is well deserved, it will bring your transcoding to grinding halt ;D
Well, it does come with all bells and whistles... it's just hiding it in its unusable interface.
If you just want to transcode something quickly, with prior knowledge, you'll waste like 10 minutes and then start looking for something better.
If you are masochistic, then you can manage it and get really good results though.
PS: Cherry on top was to ignore any drag&drop.
This is an accurate review.
I gave Handbrake multiple chances over the years, but unfortunately the truth is that it sucks and always will. I absolutely recommend using XMediaRecode or LosslessCut instead, they are superior to Handbrake in every aspect. I really don't understand why people keep using Handrake, definitely one of the worst open source software I have ever tried, poorly designed and coded, not robust, not fast, not easy to use, not flexible. Only allows MP4, MKV and WEBM output, making it useless if you need to convert to MOV, WMV, TS, AVI or any other specific format needed by specific software or devices; also a lot of specific codecs are not available and those that are available are hidden behind stupidly named preset; hardware encoders are listed but not detected even if you actually can use them in FFMpeg and other software; the UI/UX is terrible, very limited but somewhat also complicated; the conversion performance is also terrible and will use all your CPU with slow times and bad results in any case; during the conversion the software randomly freezes; if you submit a bug or issue or feature request on their GitHub they will always - in any case - say that you are misusing their tool or that you should want to do something else. The developers think they should decide for you because they know better than you what you want, similar to what Microsoft or Apple does, and I have never seen such an attitude in an open source project. While other communities are also not the most friendly, I'm sure they would realize quickly that if I just want to export to a specific old container format (AVI, MOV, MPEG) with its default codec it's not because I'm stupid but because I have to deal with another old or stupidly programmed piece of software or hardware. Handbrake should just be a tool that allows me to complete my workflow in a reasonable amount of time rather than complicating my life by saying what I should or should not do.
I like the fact that this is free and reliable. I'm a beginner and this is definitely a beginner friendly one
Excellent program and more beginner friendly compared to command prompt FFmpeg.
It's free and open source, reliable, and works. An absolute must have for your tool kit if you compress and convert videos.
I love a free, open source app that can convert my weirdly massive 19GB .mkv file to a 6GB .mp4 file.