HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multithreaded, multiplatform DVD to MPEG-4 converter.

Supported sources:
￭ Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software)
￭ PAL or NTSC
￭ AC-3, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks

Outputs:
￭ File format: MP4, AVI or OGM
￭ Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer encoding)
￭ Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Misc features
￭ Chapter selection
￭ Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
￭ Integrated bitrate calculator
￭ Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
￭ Grayscale encoding
￭ Credits

HandBrake uses a lot of (L)GPL librairies from the Linux world:
￭ liba52 (AC3 decoding)
￭ libavcodec (picture cropping, scaling and deinterlacing, MPEG-4 encoding)
￭ libdvdcss (CSS decryption)
￭ libdvdread (DVD navigation)
￭ libfaac (AAC encoding)
￭ libmp3lame (MP3 encoding)
￭ libmp4v2 (MP4 muxing)
￭ libmpeg2 (MPEG-2 decoding)
￭ libogg (OGM muxing)
￭ libsamplerate (audio resampling)
￭ libvorbis (Vorbis encoding)
￭ libx264 (H264 encoding)
￭ libxvidcore (MPEG-4 encoding)

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