HandBrake VS obs-studio

Compare HandBrake vs obs-studio and see what are their differences.

HandBrake

HandBrake's main development repository (by HandBrake)

obs-studio

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording (by obsproject)
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HandBrake obs-studio
980 2360
15,285 54,874
2.8% 2.0%
9.7 9.8
1 day ago 6 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later 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 2023-12-10.

obs-studio

Posts with mentions or reviews of obs-studio. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing HandBrake and obs-studio 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

obsninja - VDO.Ninja is a powerful tool that lets you bring remote video feeds into OBS or other studio software via WebRTC.

obs-StreamFX - StreamFX is a plugin for OBS® Studio which adds many new effects, filters, sources, transitions and encoders! Be it 3D Transform, Blur, complex Masking, or even custom shaders, you'll find it all here.

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.

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

jellyfin-ffmpeg - FFmpeg for Jellyfin

Kodi Home Theater Software - Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.

openshot-qt - OpenShot Video Editor is an award-winning free and open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows, and is dedicated to delivering high quality video editing and animation solutions to the world.

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

obs-ninja-trampoline - VDO.Ninja Trampoline