July 18th, 2006 by Keith
HandBrake 0.7.1
Posted in Linux, Mac OS, Utilities, Windows
This is something nice for the Mac OS X fans. Handbrake is a GPL’d multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. Originally, it was meant to be available only on BeOS, but now it has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux. Unfortunately, a Windows port is not available, but it is currently been worked on.
Supported sources:
- - Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (even encrypted)
- - 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
Downloads
HandBrake 0.7.1 Source (link relocated)
Handbrake 0.7.1 for MacOS X (10.3.9 or later, Universal Binary) (link relocated)
In fact, there is also an experimental Windows version of HandBrake which can be found in their forum thread.
July 19th, 2006 at 5:57 am
H.264 is huge. This is simply the best codec to use.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Cannot download HandBrake 0.7.1 – comes up with 404 not found error.
Please advise.
Many thanks,
Eddie.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Hi Eddie,
Thanks for the information. The original website has moved and is now located here.
Thanks,
Keith