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HandBrake 1.8 Video Transcoder Adds GTK4 Port on Linux, FFmpeg 7.0 Support (9to5linux.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It basically converts videos between formats, standards of compression, encoders, subtitles, dimensions.... It's pretty useful for trimming the size of a video to fit a particular medium.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

so it’s a GUI for ffmpeg?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Kinda.

HandBrake's backend contains comparatively little original code; the program is an integration of many third-party audio and video libraries, both codecs (such as FFmpeg, x264, and x265) and other components such as video deinterlacers (referred to as "filters"). These are collected in such a manner to make their use more effective and accessible (e.g., so that a user does not have to transcode a video's audio and visual components in separate steps, or with inaccessible command-line utilities).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What is the benefit to using this as opposed to just straight ffmpeg?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

As far as I know it is just an ffmpeg wrapper

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

https://kbin.melroy.org/m/[email protected]/t/276662/HandBrake-1-8-Video-Transcoder-Adds-GTK4-Port-on-Linux-FFmpeg/comment/2430596#entry-comment-2430596

Plus, do you really want to learn all the flags?