Handbrake

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.

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.

Similar Video Encoding Utilities

These are similar utilities that support MPEG4 including H.264.

• Handbrake
• FairUse Wizard
• StaxRip
• MeGUI