HandBrake
Developer: The HandBrake Team
- Reviews
- 5 / 78
- Downloads
- 47,521
- Latest version
- 1.11.2
Downloads
Downloads are available on HandBrake’s official website.
HandBrake at a glance
- What it is
- An open-source tool for converting video from nearly any format to modern, widely supported codecs
- Latest version
- 1.11.2
- Price
- Free
- Open source
- Yes
- Licence
- GPL
- Made by
- The HandBrake Team
- Runs on
- Windows, macOS and Linux
- Official website
- handbrake.fr
- Source code
- github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake
- Alternatives
- Any Video Converter, MediaCoder and Format Factory
Description
HandBrake is free, open source, cross-platform multithreaded video transcoder software. You can use it to convert various videos from one format to another. Although it can process most popular multimedia files, it won't work with protected DVD or BluRay disks.
As a multi-platform tool, HandBrake runs on several OS such as Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux. Here is a list with the most important features:
HandBrake Features
- has built-in device presets (choose an optimised profile for your device)
- support for most common multimedia files (MP4, MKV, AVI, OGM)
- it can copy unprotected DVD and BluRay disks
- queue multiple encodes
- video encoding for H.264(x264), MPEG-4, MPEG-2 (libav) and Theora(libtheora)
- audio encoding for MP3, Flac, AC3, Vorbis, CoreAudio AAC/HE-AAC (macOS only)
- audio pass-thru: MP3 tracks, AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC
- various video filters: Deinterlace, Decomb, Deblock, Detelecine, Grayscale, Cropping, Scaling
- subtitle support (SRT, SSA, VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608)
- chapter markers and title chapter selection
- live video preview
