HandBrake

HandBrake is a video transcoder. It takes almost any video file, plus DVD and Blu-ray discs without copy protection, and converts it to MP4, MKV or WebM with modern codecs.

Built-in presets cover common devices as well as general standard and high quality profiles, so you can pick one and press Start. For more control you choose the video encoder, including AV1, H.265, H.264 and VP9, set constant quality or an average bitrate, and turn on hardware-accelerated encoding where your Mac supports it. Audio can be encoded to AAC, MP3, FLAC, Opus and other formats, or passed through untouched.

You can pick titles, chapters or a time range, add subtitles and chapter markers, and apply filters such as deinterlace, denoise, crop and scale. A live preview shows a still or a short clip of the result, HDR passes through, and batch scan with the queue lets you line up many files at once. It suits anyone who needs to shrink large recordings, make a file play on another device or convert their own unprotected discs.

HandBrake is built by volunteers and is free. Most of its code is licensed under GPL-2.0, with some parts under BSD 3-Clause. The Mac app is a universal binary for Apple Silicon and Intel, and the project lists macOS 14 Sonoma and later as supported.