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Pro Advanced features
Although HandBrake is pretty straightforward to use, you can adjust pretty much any aspect of your conversion if necessary. For example, when transcoding video you have the option of adjusting between constant and variable framerate, adjusting average bitrate and constant quality, having 2-pass encoding or not, as well as tinkering with encoder specific options, and many, many, many more options.
Pro Command Line Interface option
There's HandBrakeCLI if you wish to use HandBrake frome a terminal.
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HandBrake
Recommended 6 years ago
For 90% of my transcoding tasks, Handbrake is my tool. While it has many limitations not found in ffmpeg, the presets are most often exactly what I needed in the first place, and the built-in preview feature saves me from ever having to repeat a rendering task because of a poor estimation of the final qualit...
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Free and open sourcePro
LightweightPro
Advanced featuresPro
Great, easy to use presetsPro
Good metadata supportPro
Wide range of formats and multiple media types supportedPro
FastPro
Cross-platformPro
Command Line Interface optionCon
Supports only two containersPro
Often works when dumping archiving disc to hard drive methods do notPro
Encoding options are comprehensive but easy to use up frontCon
There is no way to preserve menus and special featuresCon
no linux support for hw acceleration