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

I heard it uses a "middle out" compression algorithm.

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!

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?