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diff --git a/multimedia/HandBrake/README b/multimedia/HandBrake/README index 85642f5a07..1daadbbf68 100644 --- a/multimedia/HandBrake/README +++ b/multimedia/HandBrake/README @@ -1,22 +1,27 @@ -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 -------- -* The command to launch the HandBrake GUI is `ghb` -* Without the GUI, it's `HandBrakeCLI` +* GUI: `ghb` +* CLI: `HandBrakeCLI` |