[HN Gopher] HandBrake - An open source video transcoder ___________________________________________________________________ HandBrake - An open source video transcoder Author : prvc Score : 24 points Date : 2021-11-17 22:39 UTC (20 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (handbrake.fr) (TXT) w3m dump (handbrake.fr) | smcleod wrote: | Been using Handbrake for years, fantastic easy to use software | and absolutely flies on the new M1/M1 Pro chips. | superkuh wrote: | Handbrake is incredibly useful to me since I use many older | machines that don't have hardware (or even software) support of | modern codecs. I basically treat handbrake like an "unzip" | software to unzip the h265/av1/etc to a standard h264 with aac | audio. The file sizes really aren't that much different. | rednerrus wrote: | For when you want to downsample a video to send to the defense | team. | steviedotboston wrote: | I remember using this to rip every DVD I received in the mail | from Netflix, and then copying the file to my iPod Video so I | could watch it on the bus ride to school. | | Man have times changed... | ghostly_s wrote: | Why was this posted? Doesn't seem to be any recent news. | reidjs wrote: | handbrake is a fantastic piece of open source software, I think | it's worth reposting every now and then. | detaro wrote: | last discussion January 2019, that's quite a while | dotty- wrote: | https://twitter.com/lego_operator/status/1461077353476628488 | This seems to be why. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-11-17 23:00 UTC)