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 ...

Mac: Handbrake is is one of the most popular DVD ripping and video convertors out there, but it's missing a simple way to convert a lot of videos at once. HandBrakeBatch is a small app that adds batch ...

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 ...

Some people say that DVDs are obsolete and that soon, we'll be downloading all of our content through the Intertubes. I'm not so sure about that, as a ten minute trip to the video store easily gives ...

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 ...

Windows/Mac/Linux: If you ever have to rip DVDs to your desktop or convert video, you know how awesome open-source encoder HandBrake is. Well, it's just been updated with over 1,000 changes since the ...

Who is still buying DVDs? Surely collectors are. A hard copy is always tempting for collectors. Also, old-fashioned DVD serves you well when movies are hard to find or even not available online on ...

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, ...

If you happen to have a Maxwell-based Nvidia graphics card from the GeForce 900 series or later, you can utilize your GPU's dedicated HEVC encoding block to transcode videos into HEVC significantly ...