On Linux we have many applications for converting multimedia files which most are based on ffmpeg. Each of these is oriented to different purposes, that is why today we are going to focus on one tool Which I bet many already know.
HandBrake is a free and open source program licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2. This application is geared for multithreaded transcoding of audio and video files, this is a multiplatform application so it can be used in OS X, GNU / Linux and Windows..
About HandBrake
HandBrake uses third-party libraries, such as FFmpeg and FAAC. Handbrake can process most common media files and any DVD or BluRay source that does not contain any type of copy protection.
Between theThe main formats that HandBrake supports we can find: MP4 (.M4V) and .MKV, H.265 (x265 and QuickSync), H.264 (x264 and QuickSync), H.265 MPEG-4 and MPEG-2, VP8, VP9 and Theora
Audio encoders: AAC / HE-AAC, MP3, Flac, AC3 or Vorbis
Audio pass-through: AC-3, E-AC3, DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD, AAC and MP3 tracks
HandBrake Features
- Support for VFR and CFR
- Video Filters: Deinterlace, Decomb, Denoise, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Crop and Scale
- It is a free and multiplatform software to convert videos.
- Chapter selection and range
- Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
- Integrated bitrate calculator
- Image deinterlacing, cropping and magnification
- Preview video at all times
- Convert videos to almost all the formats you can know.
- Profiles optimized for different devices, allow you to convert videos with one click.
- Compatible with the most common video formats, it even works with DVD and BluRay sources that do not have copy protection.
- Supports batch video conversion.
- Maintain the quality of the resulting video or adjust it according to your preferences.
- Title selection
Within these characteristics The one that we can highlight is that HandBrake has profiles which we can use to carry out the transcoding of any multimedia file to any of the profiles shown in the application.
Each of these has a configuration which is adequate for the file that we transcode to be read on the device we chose.
How to install Handbrake on Ubuntu 18.04 and derivatives from PPA?
Si you want to install this application on your system we must do the following.
Although the application can be found directly from the official Ubuntu repositories, it is recommended that we use the official application repository.
This is because the Ubuntu repositories do not usually update applications as soon as possible.
For this we are going to open a terminal and we are going to execute the following commands.
The first thing is to add the repository to our system with:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
We update our list of repositories with:
sudo apt-get update
And finally we install the application with:
sudo apt-get install handbrake
How to install Handbrake from snap on Ubuntu 18.04 and derivatives?
Now if you don't want to add more repositories to your system and you have the support to install applications in snap format, you can install handbrake with the help of this technology, you just have to open a terminal and execute the following command:
sudo snap install handbrake-jz
If they want to install a release candidate version of the program, they do so using this command:
sudo snap install handbrake-jz --candidate
To install the beta version of the program, use this command:
sudo snap install handbrake-jz --beta
Now if you already have the application installed by this method, to update it just execute this command:
sudo snap refresh handbrake-jz
How to uninstall Handbrake from Ubuntu and derivatives?
Finally, if you want to remove the application from the system, you must execute one of these commands.
If they installed from snap they must open a terminal and execute:
sudo snap remove handbrake-jz
If you installed Handbrake from the repository you must type:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases -r -y sudo apt-get remove handbrake --auto-remove
And that's it, the application has been eliminated from the system.