HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video
transcoder, available for MacOS X, NetBSD, Linux and Windows.
Supported sources:
* Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD
(unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally
and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries),
and some .VOB and .TS files
* Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to
decode.
Outputs:
* File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
* Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate
encoding)
* Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several
audio tracks)
Misc features:
* Chapter selection
* Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
* Integrated bitrate calculator
* Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
* Grayscale encoding
