HandBrake for Mac
Versatile video encoder; convert any source to MPEG-4 and more.
Free
In English
Version 1.10.2When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
HandBrake overview
HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
Features
- Supported Sources
- VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted -- CSS is not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), BDMV folder (unencrypted), and some .VOB and .TS files
- Any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.
- Outputs
- File format: MP4 and MKV
- Video: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
- Audio: AAC, HE-AAC, AC3, MP3, Vorbis, FLAC (16-bit, 24-bit) or AAC, MP3, AC3, DTS and DTS-HD pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)
- Miscellaneous features
- Chapter selection
- Soft subtitle support (DVD/VobSub in DVD/MKV/MP4, Blu-ray/PGS in BD/MKV, SRT files, SRT/UTF-8 in MKV, ASS/SSA in MKV, TX3G/3GPP in MP4 - DVD/VobSub, Blu-ray/PGS and ASS/SSA subtitles can also be burned-in the picture)
- Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
- Grayscale encoding
What’s new in version 1.10.2
- Added a workaround to avoid a rare crash on Apple Silicon Macs
- Fixed a crash that could happen when encoding high depth video
Updated libraries
- HarfBuzz 11.4.5 (subtitles)
- SVT-AV1 3.1.2 (AV1 video encoding)
HandBrake for Mac
Free
In English
Version 1.10.2
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Jan 24 2023
Version: 1.6.0
Seven years later, Handbrake is still my conversion workhorse. Only on some old device I have issues using its converted videos (sound drops) where iFFmpeg (now ffWorks) gives no issue for the same source file and comparable settings.
Jan 15 2022
Version: 1.5.1
I had an old version on Handbrake on an old mac that worked great, just took a long time. It was great to travel with a selection of movies. Now this version is fast but its alternates between clear and pixelated throughout the whole movie rip. How do I get the old version or is there something I should be doing different to rip?
Mar 4 2021
Version: 1.3.3
Love this app -- it's the tits !!! It's the only app that converts video without producing a pixel-ridden result or black blocks that seem to take up a lot of screen room. It's straight-forward and simple to use. Oh, and let's not forget it's free !!!
Nov 2 2020
Version: 1.3.3
Certainly can't complain about the price. Sadly, there have been user interface issues that have plagued this software for years. Adding stuff to the queue is counter-intuitive and the encoding settings doesn't seem to hold between items in the queue. With not all that much effort this software could be really great - if I knew how to program I'd step up...
