Q607119
Sign in to saveHandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files. It was originally developed in 2003 by Eric Petit to make ripping DVDs to a data storage device easier. HandBrake's backend contains comparatively little original code; the program is an integration of many third-party audio and video libraries, both codecs (such as FFmpeg, x264, and x265) and other components such as video deinterlacers (referred to as "filters"). These are collected in such a manner to make their use more effective and accessible (e.g., so that a user does not have to transcode a video's audio and visual
Key facts
- Software.name
- HandBrake
- Software.logo
- HandBrake Icon.png
- Software.screenshot
- HandBrake Screenshot.png
- Software.caption
- HandBrake 1.0.0 running on macOS Sierra
- Software.author
- Eric "titer" Petit
- Software.developer
- HandBrake Team
- Software.programming language
- Objective-C, C, C#
- Software.operating system
- Linux, macOS, Windows
- Software.platform
- x64
- Software.language
- English*, German*, French, Italian, Russian, others — *documentation available in the marked languages
- Software.genre
- Transcoding
- Software.license
- GPL-2.0-only (Third-party components have their own licenses)
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Early versions
- MediaFork
- From 2007
- Features
- Hardware acceleration
- Transcoding
- Batch
- Sources
- Support
- Input
- Output
- Reception
- See also
- References
- External links
HandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files. It was originally developed in 2003 by Eric Petit to make ripping DVDs to a data storage device easier. HandBrake's backend contains comparatively little original code; the program is an integration of many third-party audio and video libraries, both codecs (such as FFmpeg, x264, and x265) and other components such as video deinterlacers (referred to as "filters"). These are collected in such a manner to make their use more effective and accessible (e.g., so that a user does not have to transcode a video's audio and visual components in separate steps, or with inaccessible command-line utilities).
HandBrake clients are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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