Handbrake

[LHammonds]

Name: Handbrake

Version: 0.9.4

Date: 11/23/2009

Cost: Open Source (GPL-Licensed)

Compatibility: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7

Source: http://handbrake.fr/

 

Description

Handbrake is a multi-platform, multi-threaded video transcoder.

 

Supported Sources:

• Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files
  
• Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

Outputs:

• File format: MP4 and MKV
  
• Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora
  
• Audio: AAC, CoreAudio AAC (OS X Only), MP3, or Vorbis. AC-3 pass-through, DTS pass-thorugh (MKV only)

Misc features:

• Chapter selection
  
• Subtitles
  
• Integrated bitrate calculator
  
• Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
  
• Live Video Preview

 

Here are some tutorials that anyone new to XnView should read:

 

• None Yet
  

Here are some game-related tutorials related to modding with this tool:

 

• None Yet
  

Here are some locations to find more tutorials related to this tool:

 

• None Yet
  

[LHammonds]

Feel free to reply here and let us know of any additional tutorials or tutorial sites that are out there in the wild that we do not know about.

 

Also, feel free to post any requests for tutorials. I will try to keep a compiled collection of requests on the 2nd post. Bare in mind that requests are generally for ANYONE to complete...not specific to an individual.

 

List of requested tutorials (number on the end is how many times it has been requested)

 

• None yet.