HandBrake places many advanced features in a compact GUI that will confuse some first-timers. Ease of UseĮveryone, be they beginners or experienced users, can easily handle HandBrake and VLC after a short time of learning. In other words, VLC can generate videos with original quality, while HandBrake will have to reduce video quality to some degree in every conversion. And that puts VLC on the upper hand, for it can perform lossless conversion when it only needs to remux video without transcoding. Yet, one important thing to note is that transcoding always leads to quality drops, though sometimes the difference is hard to tell. Both of them can deliver high-quality outputs up to 4K resolution. There’s not much difference in the output video quality the two programs produce. VLC can remux video without re-encoding, while HandBrake always transcodes videos, which involves data re-encoding all the time and hence a slower conversion. Nevertheless, VLC will have an even faster speed than HandBrake in one situation – video remuxing.

And since both of them support hardware acceleration, the conversion is rather fast. Using the same settings, HandBrake and VLC will convert files at a similar speed. VLC: Mainstream digital video and audio formats, including MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, FLV, WMV, ASF, WAV, FLAC, MP3, RAW, OGG, OGM, MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, MJPEG, and MPEG 1. HandBrake: Only MP4, MKV, WebM, and a variety of presets

VLC: Almost all digital video and audio formats, plus DVD Video, Video CD, Audio CD, and some protected DVD, Blu-ray sources. HandBrake: All popular digital video formats and unprotected DVD, Blu-ray sources

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