Comments on: HandBrake Video Converter for PC: Tutorial and download

By: Phillius Thomas

Phillius Thomas — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:29:00 +0000

I have used HandBrake before. I used it because the file format my camera recorded to, wasn’t compatible with my video editor. I had to change it using HandBrake.

By: Ankit Gupta

Ankit Gupta — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:57:00 +0000

In reply to Dan. Certainly Dan, Thanks for your inputs

By: gren99

gren99 — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 01:25:00 +0000

i use handbrake a lot and would add 2 things to this:

1. http://www.rokoding.com is a great site that will walk you through various setup schemes for ripping movies, animation and ‘other’ (tv shows?). unfortunately, it seems to run afoul of the limits of its webhosting site once in a while (like right now, f.e.) but when it’s up, it’s very helpful. i wound up archiving off the screenshots it provides of the settings i use and refer to them if need be ‘offline’.

2. if you want to do a sort of single-pass ripping and encoding run, you can do this with handbrake and it’s actually pretty easy, with lots of guides on how to do so just a quick google away.

unfortunately, with v.0.10 of the software, most (if not all) of these guides are outdated and the process on how to accomplish this again is detailed in this forum post:

https://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=31197

and yes, i wrote that original post. not looking for accolades, just trying to help people not having to have the several hours of frustration i had before i finally figured this out.

a note: if you do perform the whole single-pass method, your rip/encodes will take quite a while longer, so please keep that in mind. it’s a nice convenience if time isn’t much of an object, but probably isn’t for everyone.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 00:01:00 +0000

For sure, “FFMpeg” itself can be picky on some Windows systems, even with paths properly set; often, ffmpeg frontend GUIs like “WinFF” have odd difficulty finding source videos. Thanks for talking about Handbrake! It can input any digital video not protected with CSS-like copyright protections. I use Handbrake, and have no complaints…especially since the “DeComb” can be set to work just where it’s needed in a video clip, instead of messing with frames galore…I use it, and can say this is a good addition to serious video interests.

Handbrake output containers are limited to .mp4(.m4v) and .mkv; output codecs are H.264, an experimental H.265 (using MPEG-4 and MPEG-2), VP8, and Theora. Audio output codecs are decent.

If one would like to have .flv and a few further output containers, and doesn’t mind losing a few Handbrake functionalities, they might try “TEncoder”…it’s similar to yet different from Handbrake, and as it can download videos as well seems suited more for consumers just wanting a free converter (although its conversions so far seem not too shabby). TEncoder is free, but if installing it be sure to pay attention its installer asks to install some third-party tools (which can be unchecked before install).

Thanks again, and hope I added anything some may find useful. Cheers!