HandBrake is an open source and free transcoder for digital video files, originally developed in 2003 by Eric Petit (aka "titer" of the SVN repository user name) to rip movies from DVD to more storage device data easy. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions.
HandBrake is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It uses third-party libraries such as FFmpeg, libvpx, and x265.
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Histori
Versi awal
HandBrake was originally developed by Eric "titer" Petit in 2003 as a software for BeOS, before moving it to another system. He continued to be a major developer until April 2006, when the latest Subversion official revision was made. "titer" continues to be active in the HandBrake forum for short periods thereafter. From May-June 2006, no one in the HandBrake community managed to contact the "titer" and no further official code changes.
MediaFork
In September 2006, Rodney Hester and Chris Long have worked independently to extract the H.264 video compression format from Apple iPod firmware (1.2) through reverse engineering before meeting in the HandBrake forum. Because their work is complementary, they begin to work together to develop an unstable HandBrake release, but still compile, supporting H.264 format. Hester and Long make great progress in terms of stability, functionality, and look and feel. It's not possible to submit their patches to the HandBrake subversion repository without authorization from "titer".
Unable to submit their revisions as HandBrake's successor, Hester creates a subversion repository that reflects the last subversion of HandBrake (0.7.1) on HandBrake's website and starts development on top of that. Hester and Long named the new MediaFork project.
From 2007
On February 13, 2007, Hester and Long were contacted by a "titer" who informed them of his support and encouraged them to continue development. The plan was then made to integrate MediaFork as HandBrake's immediate successor. The MediaFork website and forums are moved to HandBrake's, and the next release is officially named HandBrake.
There is another transcoder, called VidCoder, which uses HandBrake as its encoding engine.
On December 24, 2016 after more than 13 years of development, HandBrake 1.0.0 was released.
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Features
Hardware acceleration
Some GPUs or APUs contain dedicated SIP blocks to perform calculations for video encoding (for example, Fast Video Sync or Video Coding Machine). Such solutions are limited to very few video codecs. When used, they are very fast but do not always match the quality of a good encoder software.
Transcoding
Users can adjust output by changing bit rate, maximum file size or bit rate and sample rate through "constant quality". HandBrake also supports deinterlacing, decombing, scaling, detelecine, and cropping (both automatic and manual).
Batch
HandBrake supports batch encoding through a graphical user interface (GUI) and a command line interface (CLI). Third party scripts and UIs exist specifically for this purpose, such as HandBrake Batch Encoder , VideoScripts . and Batch HandBrake . All use CLI to enable multiple file queues in one directory.
Source
Handbrake transcodes video and audio from almost any format to some modern ones, but does not defeat or avoid copy protection. One form of input is DVD-Video stored on a DVD disc, in an ISO image from a DVD disc or on any data storage device as a VIDEO_TS folder. The HandBrake developer deletes libdvdcss (the open source library responsible for unscrambling DVDs encrypted with Content Scramble System (CSS)) from the app in version 0.9.2. Removing digital rights management (DRM) from DVDs using HandBrake is possible by installing VLC, a media player application that includes a libdvdcss library. Currently, Handbrake can remove DRM only after the user has installed the latest version of libdvdcss.
Like DVDs, HandBrake does not directly support Blu-ray Disc decryption. However, HandBrake can be used to transcode Blu-ray Discs if DRM is deleted first using a third-party app, such as MakeMKV. Unlike HandBrake, MakeMKV does not transcode; this removes the digital rights management of Blu-ray Disc and makes exact copies of the original frame size and data rate in a Matroska (MKV) multimedia container which can then be used as a source in HandBrake.
Support
Input
Output
Reception
In 2011, Preston Gralla of PC World praised HandBrake for its features: "Advanced users will be happy with the number of options." He further criticized the usability for new users: "Note that HandBrake is not necessarily the easiest program to use. It has a large number of options available, and there is no good explanation about what they do or how to use it. ". He concluded by calling HandBrake a "solid choice" for people looking for free video transcoders.
In 2013, Lifehacker.com visitors choose HandBrake as the most popular video converter among four other candidates with a wide margin.
See also
- Video converter comparison
- OpenCL app list
References
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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