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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), and some .VOB and .TS files
- PAL or NTSC
- AC-3, DTS, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks
- File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
- Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
- Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)
- Chapter selection
- Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
- Integrated bitrate calculator
- Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
- Grayscale encoding
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)
HandBrake
For best results, use it in conjunction with