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Chapter 1.  HandBrake

See Also

dvd::rip k3b

HandBrake is a commandline and GUI DVD ripper that will read DVDs and blu-ray and convert them to some other format, like Ogg Theora, webm, xvid, x264, and others. It is one of the many invaluable tools for the video editor, who can typically expect to receive video from every imaginable source.

HandBrake can also be used as a simple format converter, transcoding one file into another format.

HandBrake is available as a binary install from slackware.org.uk/people/alien/ restricted_slackbuilds/handbrake or you can compile your own copy from slackbuilds.org, although the way that the HandBrake build system works does not make it valuable to compile from source, so Slackermedia recommends using the binary install (in spite of the fact that the maintainer for the SlackBuild is also the maintainer of Slackermedia).

Important

HandBrake requires very specific codec versions in order to build correctly, so the SlackBuild downloads all of the HandBrake-sanctioned codec versions even though you may already have all of those codecs installed. The SlackBuild is not installing or re-installing these codecs onto your system, but using them to compile HandBrake. Those versions of the codecs are discarded after HandBrake is finished building. Install the binary package instead! it's much simpler.

Once installed, invoke HandBrake in a terminal as HandBrakeCLI and within the GUI as only HandBrake.