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I ask as someone who uses ffmpeg regularly, what does Handbrake offer over ffmpeg?
The JSON API to interact with libhb also sounds interesting.
I ask as someone who uses ffmpeg regularly, what does Handbrake offer over ffmpeg?
Handbrake offers you literally a GUI over ffmpeg. And sane defaults, setting ffmpeg gets overwhelming fast. And also some nice queue management, a bit better than what you'd get from shell scripting. The downside is that it's a GUI.
I love this software. I rip my kids' DVDs using it and play them on a Raspberry Pi with Kodi. This way I don't have to wade through menus, language selection (never defaults to mine), commercials, and ridiculous piracy warnings (I paid for it! Don't treat me like a criminal).
Really makes me think twice about giving them my money
I love Handbrake. It's my goto for video transcoding. I often download stuff for my children from YouTube using a YouTube downloader, and then transcode them to the ideal iPad format, so the children can watch stuff in the car on the iPad without an internet connection. Great for long trips.
It is amazing to see software that is about 10 years old just hitting 1.0. Never really quite understood that. Is the developer just not confident in it that it is in beta for a while? or is it just a style of versioning? Anyways glad to see development on handbreak.Great software!
Though 1.0 usually has a different meaning in both world's.
1.0 usually includes a set of features the project had in mind at the beginning in open source. Whereas in closed source it usually means the first version that works to a minimal extent.
Closed source 1.0 equals open source 0 point something.
It is amazing to see software that is about 10 years old just hitting 1.0. Never really quite understood that. Is the developer just not confident in it that it is in beta for a while? or is it just a style of versioning? Anyways glad to see development on handbreak.Great software!
1.0 for some people, is 0.1 for others.
1.0 might mean it's stable, or it could meant that it's feature complete. As you say it could also be used to convey the confidence the developers have in the software.
The thing I find most important myself is conveying compatibility, i.e. semver. To me that tells me it will be easy to upgrade a library, or it could be hard.
I ask as someone who uses ffmpeg regularly, what does Handbrake offer over ffmpeg?
Handbrake offers you literally a GUI over ffmpeg. And sane defaults, setting ffmpeg gets overwhelming fast. And also some nice queue management, a bit better than what you'd get from shell scripting. The downside is that it's a GUI.
I stumbled upon this project about 2 months ago. Wanted to convert a bike race video from avi to mp4. It worked surprisingly well. Glad to see a new version of this released.