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-HandBrake is a DVD ripping application that reads DVDs and outputs to a
-variety of video and audio formats, with options for subtitles, alternate
-data streams, presets, and control over advanced options like bitrate,
-pixel aspect ratio, deinterlacing, and so on.
+HandBrake is an open-source tool, built by volunteers, for converting
+video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported
+codecs.
-The legality of ripping content from commercial DVDs varies from
-nation to nation.
+HandBrake takes videos you already have and makes new ones that work on
+your mobile phone, tablet, TV media player, game console, computer, or
+web browser—nearly anything that supports modern video formats.
-By default, HandBrake statically compiles many major encoders and
-decoders into the HandBrake binary. It will not use your local ffmpeg,
-for instance.
+HandBrake works with most common video files and formats, including
+ones created by consumer and professional video cameras, mobile devices
+such as phones and tablets, game and computer screen recordings, and DVD
+and Blu-ray discs. HandBrake leverages tools such as FFmpeg, x264, and
+x265 to create new MP4 or MKV video files from these Sources.
+
+HandBrake does not support linking to most system libraries for many of
+its dependencies due to the large number of patches it utlizes for those
+projects, so it will compile and statically link those during the build.
To skip building the GTK GUI, pass GUI=no to the script:
# GUI=no sh ./HandBrake.SlackBuild
-
Commands
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-* The command to launch the HandBrake GUI is `ghb`
-* Without the GUI, it's `HandBrakeCLI`
+* GUI: `ghb`
+* CLI: `HandBrakeCLI`