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HandBrake is a free and open-source video transcoder, originally developed in 2003 by Eric Petit to make ripping a film from e.g. a DVD to a data storage device easier. It can transcode x264 to x265 too.

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Handbrake new VP9 codec is grayed out

Handbrake new VP9 codec is grayed out and could not be used. I installed Linux Mint fresh from ppa repo that is referenced on their homepage. libav and the vpx-tools are installed. What have I missed? What can I check?
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Split DVD iso of TV series into episodes

I have a lot of DVD isos (I also have the physical DVD's, but I have ripped them, so they shouldn't be needed for this), of various TV series. Each DVD contains several episodes of the series, but typically several audio tracks and sets of…
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Filter multiple items from the output of a long running command

TLDR: How do I run handbrakecli, get progress and ETA, pipe into dialog without flickering. Details: I have a script that finds all video files in a directory and then runs handbrakecli on them one at a time. Everytime handbrakecli runs it spits…
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Handbrake on Debian not aware of x265 despite installed

I am about to convert a lot of old MKV files encoded with x264, which at the moment are un-downloadable, to more efficient HEVC (x265, H.265) format, using HandBrake software. My system being Debian Jessie 8.6, fully updated. I have installed…
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How to Build Latest HandBrake on linux with FDO (PGO) + LTO?

Passing CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS to a HandBrake build for the latest version (v1.3.3 at the time of this writing) will work until you add -flto which will FAIL the whole build. How to build HandBrake with LTO option -flto and as a stretch goal, with FDO…
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Handbrake 1.1 cannot load preset

Trying to load the preset offered here, after saving as json and importing the preset, I cannot enable it. It is absent in the list of presets under any category. And I don't see a separate custom category. What am I missing? This is on Linux Mint…
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CentOS 7: Strange directories appearing in /

On my CentOS 7 (64 bit) machine some strange directories are appearing in the root directory / I can't work out what's causing it, if I delete them they slowly start to reappear. Here is a sample: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 19 09:15…
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Subtitles generated by HandBrake are "wrong" in version 1.5.1

After upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04, which includes Handbrake 1.5.1, the subtitles generated by HandBrakeCLI seem wrong — at least when played with VLC version 3. They have a fixed (to my taste ugly) font that I cannot change, and they show a big shadow…
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GUI Video transcoder with VA-API (Handbrake alternative)

I'm looking for an alternative to Handbrake. Sadly, it doesn't support VA-API, so you have to install separate support for QSV/VCN/NVENC. While I don't know how bad the situation with Intel and NVIDIA is, the situation for AMD is abysmal. To get…
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CPU usage never 100%

I'm encoding video in 6 instances of Handbrake, but CPU usage is never above 85%. Why is this/how do I diagnose the issue?
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