For example, beginners may not know how to operate from the get-go, or how to control the hard-to-understand parameters to achieve ideal effect; Windows users have many better options for video format converting.

Its supported media forms range from physical DVDs to Matroska (MKV), Audio Video Interleave (AVI), MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4), VIDEOTS and several others.

After nearly 17 years since its development (in 2003), Handbrake video converter is still popular.

Before we go in deeper, lets recap the basic information first.

All you need to know about this video transcoder will be buttoned down in the following text.

Actually, these points of views are similar and can be concluded into two aspects.

More people used this software for DVD ripping than video conversion in early stage.

Anyhow, after various revisions and changes, from beta version to the percent, HandBrake has become mature and has been recommended as a solid choice for free transcoding.

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For removing DRM, users have to install the latest version of libdvdcss, in combination with VLC Media Player.

It seemed to shut down without finishing, but eventually it worked.

That took about 40 minutes to finish converting and encoding.

You can also choose an option in the Preset area on the right.

There are vivid options like General, Web, Device, Matroska and Production that are classified based on encoding speed, quality and usage.

There are Detelecine to improve telecined video, Decomb for deinterlacing, Denoise if your video is grainy, Deblock to remove blockiness supposedly.

HandBrake has users around the world, including India, Iran, Canada, Australia, but 18 come from the United States.

Until now, it still has around xxx traffic from the United States.

Why does HandBrake have so many users, especially American users From my personal view, there are 4 possible reasons apart from the product features.

Especially, HandBrake is friendly to Apple Mac; Americans use Mac.

The technical terms, although not well explained on the GUI of HandBrake, poses no barrier to them.

Customizing bit rate, file size, sample rate and so on is also a piece of cake.

After using for years, users get used to it for both DVD ripping and video conversion.

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So if you need to convert MP4 to AVI or WMV, you have to find the other way, such as download or downgrade to the early version or turn to other video converter.

But back to May 2017, HandBrake Mac users had undergone a bad experience of Trojan attack, with whopping 50 risk rate.

But on one dare to say there will be no more such risk in future since open OSS is easy to get hacked since its source code is open to anyone.

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