HandBrake - DVD to MPEG-4 converter - MacOS X, Linux and Windows - Free Files Free for All

Jun 24

HandBrake - DVD to MPEG-4 converter - MacOS X, Linux and Windows - Free Files Free for All

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Have you ever wanted to have a DVD converter which ran on Windows, Linux and Mac? The answer is here

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

Supported sources:

Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, 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

Outputs:

File format: MP4, AVI or OGM

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

Credits

HandBrake uses a lot of (L)GPL librairies from the Linux world:

liba52 (AC3 decoding)

libavcodec (picture cropping, scaling and deinterlacing, MPEG-4 encoding)

libdvdcss (CSS decryption)

libdvdread (DVD navigation)

libfaac (AAC encoding)

libmp3lame (MP3 encoding)

libmp4v2 (MP4 muxing)

libmpeg2 (MPEG-2 decoding)

libogg (OGM muxing)

libsamplerate (audio resampling)

libvorbis (Vorbis encoding)

libx264 (H264 encoding)

libxvidcore (MPEG-4 encoding)