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HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

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Post by prvc » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 10:39 PM UTC

HandBrake – An open source video transcoder
handbrake.fr

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Post by smcleod » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 10:46 PM UTC

Been using Handbrake for years, fantastic easy to use software and absolutely flies on the new M1/M1 Pro chips.

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Post by superkuh » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 10:48 PM UTC

Handbrake is incredibly useful to me since I use many older machines that don't have hardware (or even software) support of modern codecs. I basically treat handbrake like an "unzip" software to unzip the h265/av1/etc to a standard h264 with aac audio. The file sizes really aren't that much different.

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Post by rednerrus » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 10:50 PM UTC

For when you want to downsample a video to send to the defense team.

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Post by steviedotboston » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 10:52 PM UTC

I remember using this to rip every DVD I received in the mail from Netflix, and then copying the file to my iPod Video so I could watch it on the bus ride to school.

Man have times changed...

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Post by ghostly_s » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 10:52 PM UTC

Why was this posted? Doesn't seem to be any recent news.

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Post by reidjs » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 10:53 PM UTC

ghostly_s wrote: post #6

Why was this posted? Doesn't seem to be any recent news.

handbrake is a fantastic piece of open source software, I think it's worth reposting every now and then.

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Post by detaro » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 10:56 PM UTC

reidjs wrote: post #7

ghostly_s wrote: post #6

Why was this posted? Doesn't seem to be any recent news.

handbrake is a fantastic piece of open source software, I think it's worth reposting every now and then.

last discussion January 2019, that's quite a while

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Post by dotty- » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 10:57 PM UTC

ghostly_s wrote: post #6

Why was this posted? Doesn't seem to be any recent news.

https://twitter.com/lego_operator/status/1461077353476628488 This seems to be why.

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Post by orliesaurus » Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 10:59 PM UTC

Vague vibes of VLC! Great tools, both of them!