HandBrake 0.10.2

Creating mp4 files or MKV DVD content is a very easy task with HandBrake.

HandBrake is mainly intended to generate MKV format from a DVD, or mp4 files. It allows to easily compress the DVD video from the hard disk including destination devices like iPod , iPhone, the PSP or AppleTV to standard MPEG-4 and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) format. After detecting the source, the software interface has several tabs to adjust video parameters (codec, resolution, bitrate, approximate size of the video), audio ( track use, mixing), chapters in case of creation of a file that manages also advanced options for x264 files.

The software can use a choice of ffmpeg or XviD to encode the DVD. If the movie is on DVD, HandBrake will take care of the copy from the hard drive, but it may very well accept compress DVD already extracted to a folder. The video output format can be of MP4, AVI or OGM.

The application also allows to select one or two audio tracks. The encoding of these tracks can be made to AAC, MP3 or OGG format. It is possible to deinterlace the source, crop the image and of course resize or superimpose subtitles on the image.

HandBrake software has a clean and simple interface, being pretty easy to handle, but it can also be used for more advanced manipulation.