Software Listing of Author : "Handbrake"
- HandBrake
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00


Nearly every PC user gets into a situation when they fail to understand what to do with a DVD that will not play back on DVD player or PC owing to format restrictions. Some users may also feel irked about a video file downloaded from web refusing to play properly owing to code issues. To make such files play worthy on your PC or mobile devices, you will definitely need to use a video format conversion application. Now, it does not necessarily mean you will have to pay a significant amount of money for buying such third party applications. It is wrong to think freeware video format converters do not work well. If you think so, your view will change after using HandBrake. A Cross platform video format conversion utility, HandBrake has been around since decades and holds its own amidst crowd of expensive commercial utilities.
- HandBrake 64-bit
- License: Shareware
- Price:


HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder.
Supported Sources:
* Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files
* Most any 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 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
* Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 and DTS pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)
Misc features:
* Chapter selection
* Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
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- Platform: Win7 x64, Windows 7, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64