HandBrake 是一款开源免费的视频转换软件，目前该软件已经更新到一个新版本0.9.9版本，加入了许多新的大家需求的功能，并做了许多改进。 
HandBrake 也是一款跨平台的软件。
此外它还有两个其他发行版本HandBrake with Intel’s Quick Sync Video (Beta)与HandBrake with OpenCL (Beta)。
HandBrake 0.9.9的变化： - Improved HandBrake pineapple icon by Matt Johnson
- Improved Retina-resolution icons within the application, by Nik Pawlak
- http://nikpawlak.com
- Blu-ray (PGS) subtitle support
- works with Foreign Audio Search
- can be Burned-In
- can be passed through to MKV (but not MP4)
- Additional video framerates
- 30, 50, 59.94, 60 fps
- Double framerate (“bob”) mode for the deinterlace and decomb filters
- Better audio remix support
- additional mixdowns: 6.1, 7.1, 7.1 (5F/2R/LFE)
- CLI users should note 6ch becomes 5point1
- better-than-Stereo sources can be upmixed to 5.1
- discard one channel from Stereo sources
- Mono (Left Only), Mono (Right Only)
- Allow the selection of higher audio bitrates where appropriate
- Allow the selection of lower audio samplerates where appropriate
- 8, 11.025, 12, 16 kHz
- Audio dithering (TPDF) when converting to 16-bit FLAC
- Use libavcodec for DTS audio decoding (instead of libdca)
- DTS-ES 6.1 Discrete support
- All graphical interfaces: support for x264′s preset, tune and profile options
- alternative to the Advanced panel (which is still available)
- HandBrake-specific option to ensure compliance with a specific H.264 level
- Updated built-in presets
- take advantage of x264 preset/tune/profile support
- removed increasingly suboptimal and irrelevant Legacy presets
- Assorted bug fixes and improvements to the core library (libhb)
- Updated libraries
- x264 r2273-b3065e6
- Libav v9.6
- libbluray 0.2.3
阅读详细变化信息
在Ubuntu 13.04、12.10、 12.04 和 Linux Mint 上安装，打开终端，输入命令： sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk
其他系统用户下载访问：http://handbrake.fr/ | 
