HandBrake 是一款开源免费的视频转换软件，目前该软件已经更新到一个新版本0.9.9版本，加入了许多新的大家需求的功能，并做了许多改进。

HandBrake 也是一款跨平台的软件。
此外它还有两个其他发行版本HandBrake with Intel’s Quick Sync Video (Beta)与HandBrake with OpenCL (Beta)。

HandBrake 0.9.9的变化：

• Improved HandBrake pineapple icon by Matt Johnson

• Improved Retina-resolution icons within the application, by Nik Pawlak

• http://nikpawlak.com

• Blu-ray (PGS) subtitle support

• works with Foreign Audio Search

• can be Burned-In

• can be passed through to MKV (but not MP4)

• Additional video framerates

• 30, 50, 59.94, 60 fps

• Double framerate (“bob”) mode for the deinterlace and decomb filters

• Better audio remix support

• additional mixdowns: 6.1, 7.1, 7.1 (5F/2R/LFE)

• CLI users should note 6ch becomes 5point1

• better-than-Stereo sources can be upmixed to 5.1

• discard one channel from Stereo sources

• Mono (Left Only), Mono (Right Only)

• Allow the selection of higher audio bitrates where appropriate

• Allow the selection of lower audio samplerates where appropriate

• 8, 11.025, 12, 16 kHz

• Audio dithering (TPDF) when converting to 16-bit FLAC

• Use libavcodec for DTS audio decoding (instead of libdca)

• DTS-ES 6.1 Discrete support

• All graphical interfaces: support for x264′s preset, tune and profile options

• alternative to the Advanced panel (which is still available)

• HandBrake-specific option to ensure compliance with a specific H.264 level

• Updated built-in presets

• take advantage of x264 preset/tune/profile support

• removed increasingly suboptimal and irrelevant Legacy presets

• Assorted bug fixes and improvements to the core library (libhb)

• Updated libraries

• x264 r2273-b3065e6

• Libav v9.6

• libbluray 0.2.3

阅读详细变化信息
在Ubuntu 13.04、12.10、 12.04 和 Linux Mint 上安装，打开终端，输入命令：

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk

其他系统用户下载访问：http://handbrake.fr/

Via：http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2013-05/84595.htm