HandBrake 1.0.0 Released • Hacker News Board

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by pmorici » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 1:44 PM UTC

noobermin wrote: post #9

I ask as someone who uses ffmpeg regularly, what does Handbrake offer over ffmpeg?

Ease of use and easy installation on windows.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by 0x006A » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 1:45 PM UTC

noobermin wrote: post #9

I ask as someone who uses ffmpeg regularly, what does Handbrake offer over ffmpeg?

- it supports extracting titles from dvd and blu ray

- a gui

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by maxxxxx » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 1:46 PM UTC

noobermin wrote: post #9

I ask as someone who uses ffmpeg regularly, what does Handbrake offer over ffmpeg?

If you are comfortable with ffmpeg and shell scripting you probably don't need Handbrake. It's basically a nice UI.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by Hyperized » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 1:50 PM UTC

Don't use SHA-1 please.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 1:51 PM UTC

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Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by Ronsenshi » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 1:54 PM UTC

noobermin wrote: post #9

I ask as someone who uses ffmpeg regularly, what does Handbrake offer over ffmpeg?

I've used to work with a team that used HandBrake for transcoding - from what one of the developers told me HandBrake handles weird video formats better. Some of the videos would have troubles with ffmpeg which would produce "broken" transcoded videos, videos without audio and some other issues that I don't remember now.

Myself personally, I feel quite comfortable with ffmpeg and I never had any problems with it so whenever I can I use it.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by kennell » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 1:55 PM UTC

junto wrote: post #5

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.

An iPad can't play regular MP4/H264 videos by default?

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by dexterdog » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 1:58 PM UTC

Wow, I used to use this many years ago when ripping DVDs was a thing and also for the occasional transcode to mkv. I had no idea it was still in development. I'll have to check it out again.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by pilif » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 1:59 PM UTC

junto wrote: post #5

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.

You could use youtube-dl and request the content in an iPad compatible format. It would save you the waiting time for the transcoding

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by marcosdumay » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 2:00 PM UTC

adim86 wrote: post #3

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!

You develop and test as fast as you have time to.

HandBrake probably does not bring money to its developers, so the pace is inherently limited.