HandBrake was originally created in 2003 by the Eric Petit who made this app exclusively for the shortly lived BeOS operating system, but was shortly after ported to Windows, MacOS and Linux (Ubuntu). Petit continued being active on the development of the app until 2006 when he left, and enabled its community to continue working on updates (originally made under the name “MediaFork”, but later renamed back to Handbrake).
Common problems encountered when trying to play videos on the gadget namely the limited video format support. Handbrake comes to help solve the problem.
One of the main functions to be considered in having a gadget such as the ability to play audio formats (.mp3, .wma, .flac) and video (.mp4, .wmv, .avi, .mkv). Unfortunately, not all video files can be played because the hardware specifications gadget is limited. That's needed for a free video conversion tools such as this program.
The video formats that can convert various formats supported by libavformat (library audio / video software widely used by multimedia). In other words, almost all popular video formats are now supported by Handbrake. It also can convert video contained on the DVD or blu-ray disc.
In this version, a lot of additional features and bug fixes system provided by the developer, for example is Intel QuickSync Video, H.265, VP8 and also LobFaac.
Today, after so many years and turbulent state of development, Handbrake still represents one of the most popular video conversion programs on the market, with support for many features that make conversion process easy and intuitive. Even still, Handbrake remains to be 100% free and with regular updates continues to expand its capability to work with all currently popular video and audio codecs on the market.
Just a few of the reasons we think you'll love Handbrake:
Built-in Device Presets
Get started with HandBrake in seconds by choosing a profile optimized for your device, or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions. Simple, easy, fast. For those that want more choice, tweak many basic and advanced options to improve your encodes.
Supported Input Sources
Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.
Outputs
File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV
Video Encoders: H.264(x264), MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 (libav), and Theora(libtheora)
Audio Encoders: AAC, CoreAudio AAC/HE-AAC (OS X Only), MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis
Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and MP3 tracks
Even more features
Title / Chapter selection
Queue up multiple encodes
Chapter Markers
Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
Live Video Preview
Title: HandBrake 1.0.0
Filename: HandBrake-1.0.0-i686-Win_GUI.exe
File size: 9.71MB (10,178,066 bytes)
Requirements: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 / Windows 10 64-bit
Languages: Multiple languages
License: Open Source
Date added: December 27, 2016
Author: Handbrake www.handbrake.fr
Homepage: www.handbrake.fr
