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---
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Title: Table of contents
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Project: HandBrake
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Project_URL: https://handbrake.fr/
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Project_Version: Latest
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Language: English
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Language_Code: en
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Text_Encoding: utf-8
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Authors: Bradley Sepos
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Copyright: 2016 HandBrake Team
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License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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License_URL: https://handbrake.fr/docs/license.html
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---
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Table of contents
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## Introduction
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<!-- TODO: link to contributing guide -->
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- [Quick start](introduction/quick-start.html) - Learn how to make your first video in minutes
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- [About HandBrake](introduction/about.html) - What HandBrake is, does, and does not do
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## Getting HandBrake
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- [Where to get HandBrake](get-handbrake/where-to-get-handbrake.html) - The officially supported version
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- [Downloading and installing HandBrake](get-handbrake/download-and-install.html) - How to get HandBrake onto your computer
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- [Checking for updates](get-handbrake/check-for-updates.html) - Staying up to date with the latest version is easy
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## Making videos
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- [Opening a video](workflow/open-video.html) - How to get your videos into HandBrake
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- [Selecting a preset](workflow/select-preset.html) - Tailored settings for instant compatibility with many devices
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- [Adjusting quality](workflow/adjust-quality.html) - Easily increase visual quality or reduce file size
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<!-- TODO: To clean up a poor-looking source video, see restoration -->
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- [Previewing your settings](workflow/preview-settings.html) - See what your new video will look like, without waiting
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<!-- TODO: To clean up a poor-looking source video, see restoration -->
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- [Starting encoding](workflow/start-encoding.html) - Start encoding your new video with one click
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## Advanced features
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- Multiple jobs using the queue
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- Custom presets
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- Modifying audio and subtitle defaults
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- Resizing video
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- Downscaling only
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- Preserving surround sound
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- Formats: ac3, dts, etc.
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- Passthru: devices and compatiblity
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- Dynamic range control
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- Downmixing
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- Adding subtitles
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- Language or forced
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- Burned-in or text (source dependent)
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- Adding external subtitles
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- Chapter markers
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- Renaming chapters
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- Importing and exporting chapters
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- Post-processing metadata with Subler, others?
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## Restoration and enhancement
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- Common video problems
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- Black bars at top/bottom or sides
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- Cropping
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- Combing effects caused by interlacing or telecine
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- Detelecine filter
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- Decomb filter vs. Deinterlace filter
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- Bob mode and frame rates, motion
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- May affect compatibility
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- Noise (grainy appearance and/or color splotches)
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- Denoise filters: NLMeans and HQDN3D
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- Blocky picture
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- Deblock filter
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- Stretched picture (too wide or too tall)
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- Scaling and anamorphic
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- May affect compatibility
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- Common audio problems
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- Volume level too low
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- Dynamics too wide (soft whispers, loud booms)
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- Example videos?
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## Advanced features part 2
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May affect compatiblity! Use a preset!
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- Formats/containers
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- Video source type
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- x264 tune
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- May affect compatibility
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- Video encoding speed
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- Quality affects speed
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- x264 preset
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- May affect compatibility
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- Video angle
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- Point-to-point
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- Frame rate
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- Same as source VFR/CFR
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- Fixed VFR (peak) or CFR
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- Audio quality (bitrate)
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- Affects file size, though not as much as video quality
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- Adjustments may impact compatibility (recommend to leave alone)
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- Audio defaults
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- Subtitle defaults
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- Automatic file naming
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- Web optimized
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- iPod 5G support
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## Getting help
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- Troubleshooting common issues
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- [Community support](help/community-support.html) - Help from real people
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- Activity log
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- Required for support, see Getting help
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## HandBrake lore
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- About the name HandBrake
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- About the cocktail and pineapple icon
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- Other esoteric information
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## CLI documentation
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- CLI documentation
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## Technical documentation
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- Introduction
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- Not for regular use
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- [Source formats](technical/source-formats.html)
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- Containers
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- Known issue: MP4 edit lists
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- Video
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- Codecs
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- x264 presets, tunes, and custom settings
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- x264 profile and level
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- Constant quality versus average bit rate
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- VFR/PFR, CFR, custom frame rates
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- Advanced picture and filters
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- Anamorphic modes
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- Modulus
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- Custom filter settings
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- Audio
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- Codecs: autodetection, read/passthru
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- Known issue: Dolby Atmos
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- Gain
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- DRC
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- Mixdown
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- Subtitles
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- Formats
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- Advanced preferences
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