HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

HandBrake is one of those pieces of software that I've never even had to consider looking around to find something slightly better, it's always done what its supposed to with no fuss. A while back I wanted to rip a DVD my kids got so they could watch it on their tablets and downloading HandBrake was such a no brainer that I entirely forgot that I don't have an optical drive built into any of my computers anymore before installing it.

I love this software. I rip my kids' DVDs using it and play them on a Raspberry Pi with Kodi. This way I don't have to wade through menus, language selection (never defaults to mine), commercials, and ridiculous piracy warnings (I paid for it! Don't treat me like a criminal).

I often wonder if archivists are out there somewhere, armed with HandBrake, ripping every DVD they can find into a digital format for preservation beyond the life of the disc.<p>I&#x27;ve been fascinated with some projects that have tried to recreate the original theater experience of the original Star Wars,[0] or groups trying to capture classics that influenced Chinese cinema but haven&#x27;t been widely reproduced, like Red Heroine.[1]<p>If everything moves to streaming though, even that could become impossible. Wonder how long until they&#x27;ll stop printing DVDs...<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:b1DmioumGp8J:www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-star-wars-george-lucas-doesnt-want-you-to-see&#x2F;379184&#x2F;&amp;num=1&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;strip=1&amp;vwsrc=0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:b1Dmiou...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Obpyt_tYxCU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Obpyt_tYxCU</a>

HandBrake found me a defective RAM module on my PC: it freezed in the middle of video conversion - every single time on exactly the same video position. After further investigation I found the &quot;bug&quot; in my RAM...

It is amazing to see software that is about 10 years old just hitting 1.0. Never really quite understood that. Is the developer just not confident in it that it is in beta for a while? or is it just a style of versioning? Anyways glad to see development on handbreak.Great software!

HandBrake offers a really nice GUI for many one-off transcoding tasks. If you&#x27;re looking to automate transcoding tasks with some scripting, handbrake-cli (or ffmpeg directly) are very powerful, albeit overwhelming at times.<p>For something in the middle - offering both convenience and scriptability - I recommend video_transcoding[1] (uses handbrake-cli and ffmpeg under the covers). It&#x27;s a really handy set of command-line tools that eliminate a lot of the guesswork and frustration.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;donmelton&#x2F;video_transcoding" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;donmelton&#x2F;video_transcoding</a>

I&#x27;m a little surprised they aren&#x27;t signing their MacOS releases. It&#x27;s even documented on the download page, &quot;We are not currently able to sign the HandBrake downloads&quot;. I wonder if it&#x27;s a philosophical choice or a legal one? It seems like a failure of Apple&#x27;s Gatekeeper though: either because such a popular app is not able to be signed, or because it&#x27;s not signed and yet so many people run it anyway.

I&#x27;m a huge fan of HandBrake and excited to see them still improving the application. The last time I used a DVD ripper was &gt;5 years ago but it was an essential tool for me earlier in life. I&#x27;m happy to see I will still have it available should I need to use it.

I love Handbrake. It&#x27;s my goto for video transcoding.<p>I often download stuff for my children from YouTube using a YouTube downloader, and then transcode them to the ideal iPad format, so the children can watch stuff in the car on the iPad without an internet connection. Great for long trips.

I&#x27;ve so much respect for the team behind handbrake. What a quality piece of software. Kudos to them to making it to 1.0 -- I hope to be using it for many years to come. It&#x27;s cool to see H265 support too. That&#x27;s something I look forward to trying out.

I just downloaded it for the first time in a while 3 days ago and noticed that H.265 exists and compresses twice as well at the same quality level... how in the hell did I miss that? (VLC will play them). I did a test on a full-rez MKV and worked great

I ask as someone who uses ffmpeg regularly, what does Handbrake offer over ffmpeg?

I stumbled upon this project about 2 months ago. Wanted to convert a bike race video from avi to mp4.<p>It worked surprisingly well. Glad to see a new version of this released.

Wow, I used to use this many years ago when ripping DVDs was a thing and also for the occasional transcode to mkv. I had no idea it was still in development. I&#x27;ll have to check it out again.

What&#x27;s the difference between this and FFMPEG?

Ah brings back memories of my college days when I would go to the library at night when the computer labs were empty, check out a dozen dvds on 4 hour loan, and use a separate computer to rip each one at the same time.

Fantastic software that I use almost weekly and have done so for many years.

odd how checking for updates via Handbrake&#x27;s in app update checker (is there a better way to write that?) fails to see any newer version. So I had to get it via their website. Meh.

Great timing! I just built a new workstation over the last few days, put a BluRay&#x2F;DVD&#x2F;CD writer in it, and am looking at the ~15 or so new movies we just got over Christmas that I&#x27;m planning to rip. Gonna set up a &quot;media PC&quot; hooked up to the TV to play our movies over the network.

I&#x27;ve always found Xmedia recode to be a little easier if you want to change advanced options<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xmedia-recode.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xmedia-recode.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a>

I haven&#x27;t upgraded in quite a while due to there being a shift at .15 I believe it was where the AAC codec used had licensing issues (whether with the library makers or in what the library makers were implementing). Only affected Windows and Linux I believe. Is this still an issue? Is there a way to rebuild it including the lost component(s) as I believe they mentioned at the time the replacement was inferior?

What a really nice Christmas present from the HandBrake team! Kudos, it&#x27;s my favorite video transcoder since it&#x27;s debut on BeOS back then...

Finally, it supports VP9 and Opus!

I hope this fixes the issue I, but seemingly few others have, which is that the sound drifts behind the video getting progressively worse as the video continues.<p>By 60 minutes in the sound is a full five second behind the video.

This was incredibly useful to me when I was still in high school. We used it in lieu of Compressor (from Apple Final Cut Studio) and I remembered it was quite a bit faster than Compressor.

The only thing I found strange about HandBrake is the subtitles handling. (Somes I can&#x27;t just copy them 1:1)<p>For everything else I loved it.

Pretty cool, faster is now even faster. My dad can&#x27;t tell the difference and I have to encode stuff for him often

How does this compare to say ogmrip?<p>I haven&#x27;t used either in a long time and would appreciate the input.

This is interesting information must share this

so i see that this is based on libav (ffmpeg libs). does anyone know of an up to date tutorial on using libav? I want to write a music player and i&#x27;ve tried to use libav but the documentation is almost non-existant

If you&#x27;re looking for something more advanced, have a look at MeGUI

...Wait, it wasn&#x27;t 1.0 already?<p>Could&#x27;ve fooled me...

I did not know it wasn&#x27;t officially released yet. Really good stuff.

Don&#x27;t use SHA-1 please.

Great stuff.