HandBrake is a free multiplatform, multithreaded video conversion tool that will help you to convert DVD into MP4 or MKV format easily. Using this free DVD ripping tool, and you can easily convert video files from your DVD to other formats that can be used with your other supported devices. The user interface of the software is easy, and even a beginner can use it easily.
HandBrake Video Converter for PC
HandBrake converts only those DVDs that can be played on the DVD player. So if you have a video file in formats like AVI, MPG, etc., then it won’t convert.
Features of HandBrake
There are several reasons for you to love this application. Some of these are listed below-
- Easy to use and understand
- Can convert video nearly almost to every format
- Free and Open Source software
- Support multiple platforms
- You can select the chapter and title
- Support multiple video filters like Deinterlacing, Decomb, Denoise, Grayscale, Cropping, and Scaling
- Constant quality of the video
HandBrake Video Converter Tutorial
If you want to convert your DVD video files so that they can work on the number of supported devices, then here are the simple and easy steps that you need to follow:
1. Click on the ‘Source’ button that is there on top of the main window. Here, you need to select the source file that you want to convert. Open Video_TS folder or a batch of files. If you have inserted any DVD, then HandBrake automatically scans your DVD to read all titles and chapters. You can also select a single file as a source file by clicking on ‘File’ option under the Source button.
2. After selecting the source file, the next thing to do is to select the destination where you want to have your converted video. Now you need to decide what format of the file you want to have after the video conversion is completed. There is a ‘Presets Toggle’ bar, which is there on the left-hand side of the window. You can select any of those present in the list.
3. Before you proceed to the ‘Start’ button to start video conversion, you can still make many changes in the setting of the resulting video. You can find all the setting buttons on the lower side of the main window screen.
Fix: HandBrake not working or opening
Here are some things that you can do with the output video:
Picture: You can select and change the size of the picture and can crop it as well.
Filters: You can apply various filters like denoise, deblock, etc.
Video: You can change the video codec and frame rate of the video file and can also make changes in the quality of the resulting video.
Audio: You can also make changes to the sound part of the video and can remove the sound as well.
Subtitles: You can add and remove the subtitle track. It can also be imported in the ‘. SRT’ format.
Chapters: Here, you can select the desire chapters you want and can import and export the chapters as well.
4. When you are done with all the video and audio settings of the resultant file, then click on ‘Start’ to start the video conversion process. It may take less time to convert the video, but you will surely be happy after watching the output file as the quality of the video file doesn’t get affected during the whole conversion. You can also preview the output video by clicking on ‘Preview’ option that is on top of the main window.
Handbrake also offers the general settings option for the application under ‘Tools’ option on top of the windows. You can add videos to the Queue and can see them by clicking on ‘Show Queue’ option.
This post will show you how to compress and trim Videos using HandBrake.
HandBrake free download
The total size of the HandBrake software is 16 MB, and it’s free to download and use Just visit handbrake.fr to download it.
Also read: HandBrake alternative software to Rip DVDs.
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!
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.
Certainly Dan, Thanks for your inputs
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.