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HandBrake – Best Video Converter for Ubuntu
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded for standard or high quality conversions and tweak many basic and advanced options to improve your encodes.
Supported Input Sources:
Through Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.
Outputs:
We can convert our video file to following formats and even more for specific video formats like Ipad Apple TV etc.
- File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
- Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
- Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)
Extended features :
Handbrake have many options to perform for various video options like
- Title / chapter and range selection
- Batch Scan and Queueing of encodes
- Chapter Markers
- Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
- Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
- Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
- Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Denoise, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
- Live Video Preview
To Install HandBrake as CLI :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk handbrake-cli
To Install HandBrake as GUI :
sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk
You can Check and Contribute to this Project by following their GitHub from Here.