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Revision as of 12:47, 26 January 2016
HandBrake is a video converter program intended to both rip and convert video files. HandBrake is a general-purpose, open-source, cross-platform, multithreaded video transcoder.
Review
Developers have many options when creating their program. Unfortunately, Microsoft's flagship development platform, .NET, is often selected because it is basically the easiest to learn. With that simplicity comes many disadvantages, one being that the program executable will not run stand-alone. It requires a "framework" that also has to be installed. That framework is not compatible with any operating system other than Microsoft. Handbrake requires Microsoft .NET Framework for the Windows version of Handbrake. Handbrake installer HandBrake-0.9.8-i686-Win_GUI requires .NET 4.0!!! Microsoft .NET is not backwards compatible with previous versions of itself. Installation of yet another version of .NET is to be avoided.
Handbrake is free and open source. Handbrake works. Handbrake is pretty easy to use.
The output results of handbrake are not spectacular. They are very acceptable, but not as good as some other encoders.
Handbrake will do H.264 which is the best codec to date.
Usage
Handbrake will not decrypt and rip your DVD. For that use the appropriate tool.
Handbrake will take the ripped results and re-encode it into a compressed, space saving efficient format preserving much of the original quality, that is to say if you use the correct settings.
I take you though some settings on version 0.9.9.5530 as this is the last version that was released that was still compatible with Windows XP. Subsequent releases will no longer function on Windows XP. That was the developers choice due to some valid reasons and many invalid ones.
I like to change the Picture Anamorphic settings to "strict" because I don't want to compromise the original aspect ratio and pixel proportion. There are instances where you will have to change this, especially if you are cropping out useless black top and bottom letterbox bars. There is no need to encode dead black areas as part of your video stream. This isn't an issue for modern video sources though.
Similar Video Encoding Utilities
These are similar utilities that support MPEG4 including H.264.
- Handbrake
- FairUse Wizard
- StaxRip
- MeGUI
