Handbrake – An Open Source video transcoder for Linux that helps converting video to any formats using widely supported codecs.
Handbrake recently released minor version 0.10.2 with bug fixes.
For 0.10.2 changelog visit here.
Table of Contents
HandBrake Feature Summary
- Convert Video from any format
- Free and Open Source
- Built-in device presets e.g. iPhone, iPad, AppleTV, Android etc
- Ability to process DVD and BlueRay sources [copy unprotected mediams only]
- File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV
- Video Encoders: H.264(x264), H.265(x265) MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 (libav), VP8 (libvpx) 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
- 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, Denoise, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
How to install – using Terminal
To install HandBrake in Ubuntu using terminal, run below commands in sequence. Enter password when prompted.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
sudp apt-get update
sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk
Run
- Type HandBrake in dash. Click the launcher icon.
- For Gnome, go to Applications -> Sound and Video -> Handbrake
Links
- Website: handbrake.fr
- Source: Github
Troubleshooting and Support
If you face any issues while installing or using Handbrake, you may drop a note using comment section at the end of this article, Or you can post your query in any of the support channels mentioned below.
- Online Forum: handbrake forum
- Generic Ubuntu Forum: Ask Ubuntu
How to uninstall
To uninstall HandBrake run below commands in terminal.
sudo apt-get remove handbrake-gtk
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