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HandBrake is a software application that can convert a DVD into a MPEG-4 video file in .mp4, .avi, .ogm, or .mkv containers.
Originally developed for BeOS, HandBrake is now cross-platform, and available for Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, HandBrake is free software.
[edit] Features
[edit] Supported sources
- Any DVD-like source: VIDEO TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted for non-Windows platforms or unencrypted for all platforms, 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.
[edit] Outputs
- File format: MP4, AVI, OGM or MKV.
- 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.
[edit] Supported file types
- Input: DVD, DVD image, DVD VOB files, Transport Stream
- Output container formats: MP4, AVI, OGM, and MKV
- Video Codecs: x264 (with H.264 output), Xvid and FFmpeg (with MPEG-4 ASP output)
- Audio: AAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and AC3
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