Convert videos from one format to another format in Ubuntu 14.04 or in Linux Mint is not a very hard way. There are lot of powerfull video converters like ffmpeg are available in Ubuntu 14.04. Handbrake is a tool with very nice GUI in Ubuntu to convert videos from any format to widely supported popular formats with ease. HandBrake is an open-source, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, DVD ripper for Ubuntu or Linux.
Handbrake is a versatile tool for converting DVDs, BluRay videos to popular MPEG-4, H.264, Webm or Ogg formats with handpicked pre-configures presets for a wide range of devices like Android Phones, iPods, iPhones etc.. It can be used to create videos that need to upload into Youtube or Vimeo.
Handbrake Input Sources
- All multimedia files
- DVDs or
- BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.
Handbrake Output Formats
- File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV
- Video Encoders: H.264(x264), MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 (libav), and Theora(libtheora)
- Audio Encoders: AAC, CoreAudio AAC/HE-AAC (OS X Only), MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis
- Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and MP3 tracks
Output Presets
- Universal
- iPod
- iPad
- iPhone
- Apple TV
- Android Table
- High profile Videos
- Regular Videos
Features of Handbrake Video Converter
- Title / Chapter 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, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
- Live Video Preview
To install HandBrake Video Converter for Ubuntu 14.04 or in Linux Mint 17/13 run the following commands on the terminal.
open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk handbrake-cli
To install HandBrake Video Converter in Older Ubuntu/Linux Mint versions open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk handbrake-cli
Now open Handbrake from dash and start converting.
Install HandBrake in Fedora 20
HandBrake 0.9.9, is available for installation in Fedora 20 (Fedora 18 and Fedora 19 supported, too) by typing in a terminal:
first, install RPMFusion repository to get the necessary codes.
su -
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
then, for 32-bit and 64-bit
Installl the Handbrake Repo and install the programme in fedora 20
wget http://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-handbrake.repo -O \ /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-handbrake.repo
yum install HandBrake-gui HandBrake-cli
These commands installs both the command-line and GUI versions of HandBrake in Fedora 20.
The Terminal Log from fedora 20
Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: HandBrake-cli x86_64 0.10-5.svn6422.fc20 fedora-HandBrake 4.1 M HandBrake-gui x86_64 0.10-5.svn6422.fc20 fedora-HandBrake 9.4 M Installing for dependencies: libappindicator-gtk3 x86_64 12.10.0-3.fc20 fedora 36 k libindicator-gtk3 x86_64 12.10.1-2.fc20 fedora 62 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 2 Packages (+2 Dependent packages) Total download size: 14 M Installed size: 31 M