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Handbrake 1.0 - The open source video transcoder 13 years in the making

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I heard it uses a "middle out" compression algorithm.
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what does that mean?
it's from Pied Piper in the show Silicon Valley. It's a nonsense term.
This is pretty much all you need to know about middle out-compression:
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up and to the right. Love it. 📈
Hunter
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 ! The have all the gory/glorious details!
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)
I've been using Handbreak for the past 2 years to compress big ass QuickTime screen recordings into something regular. Works like a charm. 💫
Even though Handbrake was conceived in the world of DVDs, it's been my go-to for compressing video for the web—imagine Squash 2 for video. My process: video pops out of media encoder, gets handbraked (by checking the web optimize box and pressing start), and is pushed onto Wistia.
I couldn't recommend you more to use Handbrake to compress video files to be hosted on your web server ; it's a huge time/space saver! :D
Wow Handbrake finally hit 1.0
<3 handbrake
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.
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?
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