Install Handbrake Ubuntu Video Converter (Command Line) for Ubuntu. Here’s how to Install HandBrake from PPA in Ubuntu. Use Ubuntu Handbrake CLI to convert video files to mp4 in Ubuntu System. HandBrake is a media conversion tool to rip and convert audio and video files. It can rip DVDs/CDs or create .iso images.
Features:
- Convert Video from any format
- Built-in device presets e.g. iPhone, iPad, AppleTV, Android etc
- Ability to process DVD and BlueRay sources
- File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV
- Video Encoders: H.264(x264), H.265(x265) MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 (libav), VP8 (libvpx) and Theora
- Audio Encoders: AAC, CoreAudio AAC/HE-AAC (OS X Only), MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis
- Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and MP3 tracks
- Title / Chapter selection
- Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
- Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Denoise, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.
Outputs:
- File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV
- Video Encoders: H.264(x264 and QuickSync), H.265(x265) MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 (libav), VP8 (libvpx) and Theora(libtheora)
- Audio Encoders: AAC / HE-AAC, MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis
- Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and MP3 tracks
Install Handbrake in Ubuntu
For Linux Ubuntu systems, Handbrake can be installed in CLI ( Command Line Interface) and GUI (Graphical User Interface) variants. Open Terminal and run the following commands in Terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install handbrake
Run the following commands to install Handbrake GUI:
sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk
Run the following commands to install HandBrake CLI:
sudo apt-get install handbrake-cli
Once installed, open the Handbrake application from Ubuntu dash or menu.