HandBrake vs dvdbackup

HandBrake

HandBrake's main development repository (by HandBrake)

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dvdbackup

Bug fixes of Olaf Beck's dvdbackup pulled somewhere off the web. (by dustin)

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HandBrake		dvdbackup
	Project
981	Mentions	1
15,530	Stars	5
3.1%	Growth	-
9.8	Activity	0.0
3 days ago	Latest Commit	over 11 years ago
C	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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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

dvdbackup

Posts with mentions or reviews of dvdbackup. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-09.

Windows PowerShell ISO rip
2 projects | /r/handbrake | 9 Aug 2021

Here's one instance on github. https://github.com/dustin/dvdbackup

What are some alternatives?

When comparing HandBrake and dvdbackup you can also consider the following projects:

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

staxrip - 🎞 Video encoding GUI for Windows.

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

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

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

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

VideoLAN Client (VLC) - VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/

TwitchRecover - Twitch VOD tool which recovers all VODs including those that are sub only or deleted.

davinci-resolve-linux - Setup Davinci Resolve on Linux an Fix Issues with Importing and Exporting Media

iina - The modern video player for macOS.

ffmpeg-apple-arm64-build - Build script for ffmpeg targeting the latest open source video codecs running on macOS using Apple's M1 processor.

ShareX - ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.