Questions tagged [handbrake]
HandBrake is a free and open-source video transcoder, originally developed in 2003 by Eric Petit to make ripping a film from e.g. a DVD to a data storage device easier. It can transcode x264 to x265 too.
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Handbrake new VP9 codec is grayed out
Handbrake new VP9 codec is grayed out and could not be used.
I installed Linux Mint fresh from ppa repo that is referenced on their homepage.
libav and the vpx-tools are installed.
What have I ...
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Handbrake on Debian not aware of x265 despite installed
I am about to convert a lot of old MKV files encoded with x264, which at the moment are un-downloadable, to more efficient HEVC (x265, H.265) format, using HandBrake software.
My system being Debian ...
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Filter multiple items from the output of a long running command
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How do I run handbrakecli, get progress and ETA, pipe into dialog without flickering.
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I have a script that finds all video files in a directory and then runs handbrakecli on them ...
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Split DVD iso of TV series into episodes
I have a lot of DVD isos (I also have the physical DVD's, but I have ripped them, so they shouldn't be needed for this), of various TV series. Each DVD contains several episodes of the series, but ...
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Handbrake 1.1 cannot load preset
Trying to load the preset offered here, after saving as json and importing the preset, I cannot enable it.
It is absent in the list of presets under any category. And I don't see a separate custom ...
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CentOS 7: Strange directories appearing in /
On my CentOS 7 (64 bit) machine some strange directories are appearing in the root directory /
I can't work out what's causing it, if I delete them they slowly start to reappear.
Here is a sample:
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How to Build Latest HandBrake on linux with FDO (PGO) + LTO?
Passing CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS to a HandBrake build for the latest version (v1.3.3 at the time of this writing) will work until you add -flto which will FAIL the whole build.
How to build HandBrake with ...
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GUI Video transcoder with VA-API (Handbrake alternative)
I'm looking for an alternative to Handbrake. Sadly, it doesn't support VA-API, so you have to install separate support for QSV/VCN/NVENC. While I don't know how bad the situation with
Intel and NVIDIA ...
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Subtitles generated by HandBrake are "wrong" in version 1.5.1
After upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04, which includes Handbrake 1.5.1, the subtitles generated by HandBrakeCLI seem wrong — at least when played with VLC version 3. They have a fixed (to my taste ugly) font ...
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CPU usage never 100%
I'm encoding video in 6 instances of Handbrake, but CPU usage is never above 85%. Why is this/how do I diagnose the issue?
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