HandBrake Alternatives

HandBrake is described as 'An open-source multithreaded video transcoder, HandBrake compresses and converts digital media, supporting MP4, MKV formats, and offers hardware-accelerated conversion' and is a leading Video Converter in the cd/dvd tools category. There are more than 100 alternatives to HandBrake for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best HandBrake alternative is FFmpeg, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like HandBrake are Shutter Encoder, Avidemux, VidCoder and File Converter.

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HandBrake alternatives are mainly Video Converters, but if you're looking for Audio Converters or Video Editors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows, Android, Mac, Linux, Google Chrome, Windows + Open Source and iPad. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to HandBrake.
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  1. The Mobile Media Converter is a free video and audio converter for converting between popular desktop media formats like MP3, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis Audio (ogg), Wave Audio (wav), MPEG video, AVI, Windows Media Video (wmv), Flash Video (flv), QuickTime Video (mov)...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. iFunia DVD Ripper is an easy-to-use yet powerful application that can rip DVDs to any output format. It can rip both homemade and commercial DVDs, convert multiple DVD titles/chapters in batches, and merge episodes into one.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  3. WebM for bakas. Basically, a wrapper around ffmpeg made for converting videos to WebM without having to use the command line.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. macXvideo icon
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    Free edit, shrink, resize and encode 4K/5K/8K/HD/SD videos on Mac at 5X faster speed with no quality loss.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    macXvideo supports more output video formats than HandBrake

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    • macXvideo is Free and ProprietaryHandBrake is Free and Open Source
  5. Curlew icon
     7 likes

    Simple video converter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. Selene is an audio/video converter for converting files to various formats. It aims to provide a simple GUI for converting files to popular formats along with powerful command-line options for automated/unattended encoding.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Transcoder icon
     2 likes

    Transcoder is a video converter for Linux using GTK+ as GUI toolkit and ffmpeg as backend.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  8. Finally, video conversion made easy. Ready any video type for AirPlay, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Chromecast, Xbox, PlayStation and just about anything else.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. optimizeVideo is just a simple wrapper around ffmpeg, but that saves a lot of guessing. It analyzes the contents of a target video file, and sets the conversion parameters according to Google standards.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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