astrofox vs HandBrake

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astrofox		HandBrake
	Project
10	Mentions	981
1,675	Stars	15,530
1.1%	Growth	3.1%
0.0	Activity	9.8
3 months ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
JavaScript	Language	C
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.

astrofox

Posts with mentions or reviews of astrofox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-07.

Kdenlive Full Audio Spectrum on Screen?
1 project | /r/kdenlive | 7 Jan 2023

Perhaps Astrofox fits the bill? Not integrated with kdenlive but it can produce mp4 for re-import to kdenlive
天文狐 - 将音频变成视频 (Astrofox – Turn Audio into Videos)
1 project | /r/hnzh | 8 Jul 2022
Astrofox – Turn Audio into Videos
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 7 Jul 2022

1 project | /r/hackernews | 7 Jul 2022

1 project | /r/hypeurls | 7 Jul 2022

2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jul 2022
Astrofox is motion graphics program that lets you turn audio into videos
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 May 2022
Good day all, Mp3 to mp4 bulk conversion application?
1 project | /r/software | 7 May 2022

Astrofox and Mediabits.io.
How to create animated videos to use for your music on YouTube / Instagram?
1 project | /r/edmproduction | 10 Jan 2022

I've used https://astrofox.io/ and it's worked for me. It's free and open-source.
I have made a list of 55 plus open source software list for doing various tasks
10 projects | /r/software | 26 Aug 2021

Astrofox: music visualization software: https://github.com/astrofox-io/astrofox

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 astrofox and HandBrake you can also consider the following projects:

screenity - The free and privacy-friendly screen recorder with no limits 🎥

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

jina - ☁️ Build multimodal AI applications with cloud-native stack

staxrip - 🎞 Video encoding GUI for Windows.

Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System

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

waveform-playlist - Multitrack Web Audio editor and player with canvas waveform preview. Set cues, fades and shift multiple tracks in time. Record audio tracks or provide audio annotations. Export your mix to AudioBuffer or WAV! Add effects from Tone.js. Project inspired by Audacity.

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

tardis - TARDIS - Temperature And Radiative Diffusion In Supernovae

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

react-player - A React component for playing a variety of URLs, including file paths, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, SoundCloud, Streamable, Vimeo, Wistia and DailyMotion

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