I-Handbrake ingenye yama -transcoder evidiyo amahhala futhi avulekile athandwa kakhulu , anelayisensi ngaphansi kwe-GNU GPLv2+. Yaqala njengohlelo lokuguqula ama-DVD noma ama-Blu-ray disc abe amafomethi emidiya yedijithali njenge-MP4, MKV, noma i-MPEG-4, kodwa ukusebenza kwayo kuye kwanda ngenguqulo ngayinye entsha yesofthiwe.
Enye yezinto ezikhethekile ze-Handbrake ukusekelwa kwayo ngamadivayisi aphathekayo. Ibhuleki lesandla linikezela ngephrofayili ekhethekile yokufaka ikhodi kudivayisi ngayinye, njenge-ipod, iphone, i-Ipad, i-Android, ithebhulethi ye-Android, phakathi kwabanye. Ngaleli bhuleki lesandla elivela kuphrofayili echaziwe, lilungiselela ngokuzenzakalela ikhwalithi yokuguqulwa nevidiyo yedivayisi ngayinye.
Ibhuleki lesandla lisekela ukuguqulwa kwamafomethi alandelayo :
- Okokufaka kwevidiyo: VIDEO_TS, Matroska (MKV), ISO image (ISO), Video Object (VOB), Audio Video Interleave (AVI), MPEG-4 (MP4).
- Ukukhishwa kwevidiyo: MPEG-4 (MP4), iTunes Video (M4V), Matroska (MKV).
- Okukhipha umsindo: Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), MPEG-1 noma MPEG-2 Audio Layer III (MP3), iDolby Digital (AC-3), DTS (DTS).

Ngaphezu kwalokho, i-Handbrake inomsebenzi othile owusizo kakhulu:
- Isihloko / isahluko noma ukukhetha ibanga
- Iskena sefayela leqoqwana nokwakhiwa kolayini bokufaka ikhodi
- Izimpawu zesahluko
- Ukusekelwa kwesihlokwana
- Izihlungi zevidiyo: I-Deinterlace, i-Cut, i-Scaling, i-Colour, i-Noise Removal.
- Ukubukwa kuqala kwevidiyo ebukhoma.
Ibhuleki lesandla liyatholakala i-Graphic version (GTK) ye-Windows, OS X, kanye nezinhlelo zokusebenza ze-Ubuntu-Linux kungosi yayo esemthethweni. Futhi, ngo-Ubuntu kungenzeka ukusebenzisa i-Handbrake kusuka ku-terminal ngokusebenzisa umugqa womyalo (CLI)
Ukufaka ku-Ubuntu akunzima, vele ungeze i-Handbrake PPA kumakhosombe bese ubuyekeza.
Sikhipha:
i-sudo engeza-apt-repository ppa: ama-stebbins / ama-handbrake-akhipha i-sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get ukufaka ibhuleki lesandla-gtk

Ukufaka ibhuleki lesandla lomugqa womyalo (CLI) kufanele ungeze okulandelayo kumiyalo yangaphambilini:
sudo apt-get ukufaka ibhuleki lesandla-ehl