HandBrake was originally developed by Eric Petit in 2003 as software for BeOS, before porting it to other systems.

HandBrake clients are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

These are collected in such a manner to make their use more effective and accessible (e.g., so that a user does not have to transcode a video's audio and visual components in separate steps, or with inaccessible command-line utilities). HandBrake's backend contains comparatively little original code the program is an integration of many third-party audio and video libraries, both codecs (such as FFmpeg, x264, and x265) and other components such as video deinterlacers (referred to as 'filters'). It was originally developed in 2003 by Eric Petit to make ripping DVDs to a data storage device easier. HandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files.

GPL-2.0-only (Third-party components have their own licenses)

English*, German*, French, Italian, Russian, others - *documentation available in the marked languages

Handbrake github