I discovered something interesting in the video encoding app Handbrake today. When you encode a video, you can select between several encode options. The most obvious choices are H.264 and H.265. The ...

Originally created for ripping DVDs, HandBrake is the go-to tool for those who want to convert existing video footage into space-efficient formats for watching on iOS devices, with presets for ...

I've been playing around with Handbrake, encoding files for play back on my HTC EVO. Machine is a Win7 64 box, i7 860 (no OC), 2x2gb. Source content is a 4.5gb MKV, 1920x816. Re-encoding to 800x480, 2 ...

If you've read coverage—including ours—of any recent graphics hardware launches, you've surely seen mention of AV1 video codec support as one of the major benefits. It was a selling point for both ...

HandBrake is a cross-platform, open source video transcoding tool. Need to convert a DVD or Blu-ray rip to an MP4 file with AAC, MP3, or FLAC for the audio track? No problem. Handbrake will let you do ...

[Editor’s note: The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t legally copy or convert commercial DVDs for any reason. We (and others) think that, if you own a DVD, you should be able to ...

Let's take a look at how the various encodes perform. Throughout the following section, all encodes were made using Handbrake with the settings as mentioned, with the exception of the Nvidia encodes, ...