Install HandBrake 0.9.8 Video Converter Di Ubuntu 13.04/ 12.10/12.04/11.10/11.04/10.10/10.04/9.04/Linux Mint 15/14/13/12/11 (New Release)

HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.


Outputs Formats:

• File format: MP4(M4V) and MKV
• Video: H.264(x264), MPEG-4(ffmpeg), MPEG-2(ffmpeg), or Theora(libtheora)
• Audio: AAC, CoreAudio AAC/HE-AAC (OS X Only), MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis. AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and MP3 pass-thru

Misc features:

• Chapter selection, Chapter Markers
• Subtitles
• Vobsub and Closed Captions
• SRT import and passthru
• SSA passthru or burn-in (experimental)
• Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
• Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
• Video and Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale Cropping and scaling
• Live Video Preivew
• Built-in presets for common devices

Changelog of 0.9.9:

• Improved HandBrake pineapple icon
• Improved Retina-resolution icons within the application
• Blu-ray (PGS) subtitle support
• Additional video framerates (30, 50, 59.94, 60 fps)
• Double framerate ("bob") mode for the deinterlace and decomb filters
• Better audio remix support
• Allow the selection of higher audio bitrates where appropriate
• Allow the selection of lower audio samplerates where appropriate
• Audio dithering (TPDF) when converting to 16-bit FLAC
• Use libavcodec for DTS audio decoding (instead of libdca)
• All graphical interfaces: support for x264's preset, tune and profile options
• Assorted bug fixes and improvements to the core library (libhb)
• Use some system libraries rather than bundling: fontconfig, freetype, libxml2, libass, libogg, libvorbis, libtheora and libsamplerate

To install HandBrake Video Converter in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk handbrake-cli

That's it

Source: handbrake.fr