by rossy on 11/24/14, 3:19 AM
> In addition, we have added the FDK AAC encoder for Windows and Linux as a optional compile-time option.
It's a shame that libfdk-aac is also GPL incompatible. It's hands down the best free AAC encoder, but a version of FFmpeg/libav/Handbrake that's compiled against it is not allowed to be distributed.
by e40 on 11/23/14, 10:48 PM
When I used Handbrake, I always had audio sync issues. I could never figure out what I was doing wrong. That was on Windows. Now that I'm on a Mac, perhaps it'll go better, though I don't have the need to use it much anymore.
by ulfw on 11/24/14, 6:42 AM
"QSV is only supported on Windows"
"libav AAC encoder as the new default for Windows"
"HandBrake now offers BiCubic scaling on Windows via OpenCL"
Sad that the Mac doesn't seem to get many of the goodies anymore.
by quink on 11/23/14, 11:00 PM
While still waiting for Daala I've already started encoding my videos in H.265 separately from handbrake, using mplayer. It's been going very well, H.265 will be awesome once it really starts hitting the mainstream. The bitrates are magically small and x265 is pretty fast. mkv container and Opus audio.
by Zeebrommer on 11/24/14, 11:53 AM
At times I do need an audio/video converter, and it is always a bit of a pain sifting trough all the dubious and low quality freeware programs. Although Handbrake is not really dubious, last time I tried it wasn't very user friendly or easy either. Anyone know why it seems to be hard to make a nice, easy 'convert arbitrary format to something commonplace' program? And since this gets upvoted, is Handbrake considered the current standard?
by jmnicolas on 11/24/14, 11:14 AM
Handbrake could really use some TLC on the GUI. It's so confusing (at least for me) that I was only using it in CLI mode. This ended up being a good thing : I made a script to only convert at night when electricity is cheaper.
by Yadi on 11/24/14, 6:13 PM
This is very interesting! I'm using AWS elastic transcoder, but this as an AMI could be cool too, any thoughts on going that way?
by cheng1 on 11/24/14, 2:58 AM
Love the software.
However, still can't do batch convert on a OS? You can convert a whole folder with a few clicks in the Windows version.
by higherpurpose on 11/23/14, 10:55 PM
HandBrake uses HTTPS, but Sourceforge doesn't...great.
by xfalcox on 11/24/14, 1:44 PM
Hey guys, someone has a good list of presets to share?
by jcslzr on 11/24/14, 5:23 PM
VidCoder > Handbrake
by 1ris on 11/23/14, 11:27 PM
Still no opus?
by marco1 on 11/24/14, 2:29 AM