HandBrake
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HandBrake 1.0.0 running on macOS Sierra
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| Original author(s) | Eric "titer" Petit |
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| Developer(s) | HandBrake community |
| Initial release | 24 August 2003 |
| Stable release |
1.0.3 / 25 February 2017
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| Repository | github |
| Written in | Objective-C, C, C# |
| Operating system | Linux, macOS, Windows |
| Platform | IA-32, x64 |
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| Available in | English, French |
| Type | Transcoder |
| License | GNU GPLv2+ (Third-party components have their own licenses) |
| Website | handbrake |
HandBrake is a free and open-source video transcoder, originally developed in 2003 by Eric Petit (a.k.a. "titer" from his SVN repository username) to make ripping a film from a DVD to a data storage device easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions.
HandBrake is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It uses third-party libraries such as Libav, libvpx, and x265.
HandBrake was originally developed by Eric "titer" Petit in 2003 as software for the BeOS, before porting it to other systems. He continued to be the primary developer until April 2006, when the last official Subversion revision was committed. "titer" continued to be active on the HandBrake forum for a brief period after. Since May–June 2006, no one in the HandBrake community was successful in contacting "titer" and no further code changes were officially made.
In September 2006, Rodney Hester and Chris Long had been independently working to extract the H.264 video compression format from Apple's iPod firmware (1.2) through reverse engineering before meeting on the HandBrake forum. Since their work was complementary, they began working together to develop an unstable, but still compilable, release of HandBrake supporting the H.264 format. Hester and Long made considerable progress in terms of stability, functionality, and look and feel. It was not possible, however, to submit their patch to the HandBrake subversion repository without authorisation from "titer".
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