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HandBrake is a tool that enables you to convert almost any video file or DVD to MP4 or MKV container. The interface of the application is standard and both beginners and experienced individuals can easily get accustomed to this program. Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection. Handbrake was a pure software encoder; now it can use Intel Quick Sync for hardware acceleration H.264.

Supported Sources:

* Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files
* Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

Outputs:

* File format: MP4 and MKV
* Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
* Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 and DTS pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Misc features:

* Chapter selection
* Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
* Integrated bitrate calculator
* Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
* Grayscale encoding