Comment 9 for bug 105458

The Information from duplicate 269448 follows (note newer URL for the Handbrake project)

Please feel freely welcome to use any/all of this info to provide more information for this program's brief.
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Summary: [needs-packaging] Handbrake - DVD to MPEG-4 converter , multiplatform, multithreaded

URL:
http://handbrake.fr/

Description:
HandBrake is a multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

Supported sources:
    * Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software), and some .VOB and .TS files
    * PAL or NTSC
    * AC-3, DTS, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks

Outputs:
    * File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
    * Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
    * Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Misc features:
    * Chapter selection
    * Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
    * Integrated bitrate calculator
    * Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
    * Grayscale encoding

License: GPL

Notes:]
Please make versions for most cpu types (e.g. i386, AMD64, and others), and currently supported Ubuntu versions.

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Tags : converter dvd mpeg multiplatform needs-packaging video

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Please add any of the above information you like, to this package request.
This will help people have more idea about what the program is able to do.
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Screen shots available at http://handbrake.fr/?article=screenshots
for example - http://handbrake.fr/site/images/screenshots/Main_Window.png