Thursday, February 19, 2009

How to use handbrake to convert video to MP4 AVI MKV etc. on Mac OS X!

Requirements:

* 500 MHz processor or better with at least 16MB of video RAM
* (Handbrake 0.9.3 and higher) Handbrake 0.9.3 (Only the latest version of handbrake 0.9.3 can convert videos using the Theora codec. It can convert videos such as 3GP, AVI, FLV, MKV, MOD, MOV, MP4, MPG, WMV to MP4, MKV, AVI, OGM on Mac. But sometimes, Some such videos can not be loaded successfully.)
* Mac OS X 10.5 or higher

Handbrake is famous known as a DVD Ripper for Mac OS X for a long time! Not long ago, handbrake release edition 0.9.3 which can support convert video on Mac, and i have tested a lot to find the formats that handbrake supports. And the steps almost the same with how to rip DVD using handbrake!

More i want to inform here is the settings.
Click on the Picture Settings button to launch a separate window. The only thing you really want to do here is to compensate for interlaced or grainy, compressed looking video. Handbrake will have adjusted everything here for you based on the preset you selected. Sometimes video files will have horizontal lines in them. This is called interlacing. To get rid of interlacing, try turning on the Deinterlace option and select "Fast." The image below is animated and will toggle between when the deinterlace option is turned on or off. You can really see the difference around the edge of the flipper.
Remember: the larger the screen size, the larger the file size will be, and hence the more time it will take for Handbrake to convert your files.

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Comparison among Handbrake, iSkysoft iMedia Converter for Mac, MacTheRipper, VisualHub, etc.

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