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 HandBrake 1.0.0 running on macOS Sierra | |
| Original author(s) | Eric "titer" Petit |
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| Developer(s) | HandBrake Team |
| Initial release | 24 August 2003 |
| Stable release | 1.8.2[1]
/ 10 August 2024 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Objective-C, C, C# |
| Operating system | Linux, macOS, Windows |
| Platform | x64 |
| Size | |
| Available in | English*, German*, French, Italian, Russian, others — *documentation available in the marked languages |
| Type | Transcoding |
| License | GPL-2.0-only (Third-party components have their own licenses)[2] |
| Website | handbrake |
HandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files. It was originally developed in 2003 by Eric Petit to make ripping DVDs to a data storage device easier.[3] HandBrake's backend contains comparatively little original code; the program is an integration of many third-party audio and video libraries, both codecs (such as FFmpeg, x264, and x265) and other components such as video deinterlacers (referred to as "filters"). These are collected in such a manner to make their use more effective and accessible (e.g., so that a user does not have to transcode a video's audio and visual components in separate steps, or with inaccessible command-line utilities).
HandBrake clients are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.[4]
- ^ "Release 1.8.2". 10 August 2024. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- ^ "Handbrake: Features". Archived from the original on 25 January 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
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