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Handbrake 1.0 — The open source video transcoder 13 years in the making
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Wow! Cool to see this at 1.0. I used it a ton 10 or so years ago. Awesome to see people still developing and using solid software.
Even though my laptop and Mac Mini no longer have CD/DVD drives in them, I'm still happy to see this program getting developed as I discovered several old DVDs that I've been meaning to rip over the holidays! Nice to see this old classic taken over the finish line from beta to its 1.0.0 release!
The lengthy release notes have all the gory/glorious details!
@chrismessina you can use it to reconvert your videos to x265... It's one of the most stable softwares and do a pretty good job (this can save you a lot of disk space)
@chrismessina it's from Pied Piper in the show Silicon Valley. It's a nonsense term.
@chrismessina This is pretty much all you need to know about middle out-compression: 
I love handbrake. I use it to shrink down all our product demo videos. Plus the frequent references to cocktails in their notifications makes me happy :)
Wow I remember using this a decade ago! I just use Adobe encoder now... Is handbrake still relevant?
Ha, this app ended the long and ugly custody battle between my sister and I for the 7 seasons of Will & Grace DVDs when I moved away for college. Memories. <3 I need to check out what it can do for me now.
Vidcoder whis is based on HB is a neat interface and make some tasks even easier
Have been using this for years. Originally for DVD's, now use it almost daily for compressing videos. Once you've got some presets setup, this thing is a dream. For anyone who hasn't used this before, there is also a CLI available.
Been using handbrake for years and will continue to use it for years to come!
Been using handbrake for about 5 years. Excellent compression tool for large videos.
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