EFI-Agent vs HandBrake

EFI-Agent

Simple, low resource, efficient and no frills tool to mount EFI partitions. (by benbaker76)

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HandBrake

HandBrake's main development repository (by HandBrake)

video-transcoding multi-platform Gplv2

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EFI-Agent		HandBrake
	Project
3	Mentions	981
111	Stars	15,692
-	Growth	2.6%
2.9	Activity	9.8
11 months ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
Objective-C	Language	C
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

EFI-Agent

Posts with mentions or reviews of EFI-Agent. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-01.

Can't get installer to boot - BIOS freezes after selecting my USB drive
1 project | /r/hackintosh | 2 May 2023

EFI agent https://github.com/benbaker76/EFI-Agent is one of the very first things I install on a new hack. Open a Finder window in column view for the USB EFI and a separate Finder window for the internal SSD's EFI once they've mounted.
Can anyone make heads or tails about this guide for the Lenovo ThinkPad T480? I don't have the EFI partition on my pendrive using Windows and diskpart.
1 project | /r/hackintosh | 23 Aug 2022
Hackintosh / MacOS free tools
32 projects | /r/hackintosh | 1 Jun 2021

EFI Agent

HandBrake

Posts with mentions or reviews of HandBrake. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-04.

FFmpeg 7.0 Released
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Apr 2024
On Export, Left audio is delayed by about half a second, is there a fix?
2 projects | /r/davinciresolve | 10 Dec 2023

https://handbrake.fr/ its very easy to use.
Linux GUI/Frontend for VMAF
6 projects | /r/AV1 | 7 Dec 2023

nothing actually, i just mentioned it as an encoding frontend.
Windows Photos saves really large video files
1 project | /r/Windows10 | 7 Dec 2023
Vegas PRO18, my mov files.
1 project | /r/VegasPro | 5 Dec 2023

At this point, use https://handbrake.fr/ to transcode into a higher res MP4 and use as proxy footage,
converting .avi files to .mp4
1 project | /r/techsupport | 28 Nov 2023

Maybe you could try HandBrake.
HandBrake 1.7.0 – The open source video transcoder
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2023

The release itself[0] would have been a better link.
0. https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/releases/tag/1.7.0
HandBrake 1.7.0 released with AMD & Nvidia AV1 hwenc, SVT-AV1 v1.7 & SVT-AV1 multi-pass ABR
1 project | /r/AV1 | 18 Nov 2023
HandBrake 1.7.0 released
1 project | /r/handbrake | 18 Nov 2023
HandBrake 1.7.0 Released
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing EFI-Agent and HandBrake you can also consider the following projects:

RDM - Easily set Mac Retina display to higher unsupported resolutions

Tdarr - Tdarr - Distributed transcode automation using FFmpeg/HandBrake + Audio/Video library analytics + video health checking (Windows, macOS, Linux & Docker)

iina - The modern video player for macOS.

staxrip - 🎞 Video encoding GUI for Windows.

Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

Av1an - Cross-platform command-line AV1 / VP9 / HEVC / H264 encoding framework with per scene quality encoding

MonitorControl - 🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.

FFmpeg - Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

KeepingYouAwake - Prevents your Mac from going to sleep.

obs-studio - OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

Dozer - Hide menu bar icons on macOS

lossless-cut - The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing