Convert videos on Linux Ubuntu, via HandBrake software. Install HandBrake on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10 Systems. HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
HandBrake comes with many powerful features such as built-in device presets and large number of multimedia file format support. The HandBrake software supports various outputs such as:
- File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV
- Video Encoders: H.264(x264 and QuickSync), H.265 MPEG-4 and MPEG-2, VP8 and Theora
- Audio Encoders: AAC / HE-AAC, MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis
- Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and MP3 tracks
Even more features
- Title / chapter and range selection
- Queue up multiple encodes
- Chapter Markers
- Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
- Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
- Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
- Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Denoise, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
- Live Video Preview
HandBrake 0.10.5 Release Highlights
- Removal of FDK AAC from our binary releases. –enable-fdk is required for “non-free” builds if compiling from source.
- Updated x265 to 1.9 which brings bug fixes and performance improvements.
- Few minor bug fixes since the 0.10.3 release. This includes improvements in large AVI file handling.
Install HandBrake on Ubuntu
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.