HandBrake

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HandBrake is a free software application that can convert MPEG video (including DVD-Video) into a MPEG-4 video file in .mp4, .avi, .ogm, or .mkv containers. The program is used by many people to convert DVDs into other forms so they can be viewed on iPods, iPhones and with the Mac QuickTime Player.

HandBrake Main Features :

sopported sources:

Any DVD-like source: VIDEO TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (supports decryption through VLC on OS X and libdvdcss on Linux) PAL or NTSC, AC-3, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks.

Any input video file that is supported by the FFmpeg project. This includes nearly every .AVI and .MPG file found in the wild.

Outputs :

File format: MP4, AVI, OGM or MKV.

Video: Theora, 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.

HandBrake0.9.3 New Features :

Universal input

Linux GUI

Video quality

Audio flexibility

No more internal DVD decryption

Audio-video synchronization

Decomb filter

Multi-threaded deinterlacing

Massive improvements to all interfaces

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