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Opti­mize means mov­ing impor­tant data to the begin­ning of the file so it’s down­loaded first, allow­ing the video to start quickly.

Your client won’t give a jack how fancy you think you are unless you include the most impor­tant part: -optimize.Two passes over the video is bet­ter than one.

The best part about these two lines is that the aspect ratio will not be changed! Hand­Brake­CLI will try to fill the larger value with­out exceed­ing the latter. If the video is mostly talk­ing go ahead and bump it down to 96. Audio Bit Rate is spec­i­fied in kilo­bits per sec­ond.Video Bit Rate is spec­i­fied in kilo­bits per second.The best codec for the web is H.264 video, using x264 encoder.Tech­ni­cally, this file path start­ing with ~/Desktop means to the Desk­top folder of the cur­rent user (you!). The next part defines the path where you’d like to place your final con­verted video. The next part lists the path to your orig­i­nal video file you’d like to con­vert (I find it’s eas­i­est to work from the Desktop). means to stay in the cur­rent directory. Tech­ni­cally, this file path start­ing with. Before you run your com­mand, use the Change Direc­tory com­mand ( cd path/to/handbrakecli) to make sure you are in the same folder as the Hand­Brake­CLI file is located.Let’s explain this com­mand and ease your appre­hen­sion about using the com­mand line by break­ing down each indi­vid­ual argu­ment in the com­mand, line-by-line: 1). HandBrakeCLI -i ~/Desktop/my_original_file.wmv -o ~/Desktop/my_new_file.mp4 -encoder x264 -vb 1800 -ab 128 -maxWidth 640 -maxHeight 480 -two-pass -optimize Expla­na­tion Hand­Brake­CLI takes a crummy Win­dows Media video file and turns it into some­thing awe­some for the web. I often use Hand­Brake to take client’s video files and add them to their web­site in a for­mat that streams quickly and looks great. On a Mac, use Terminal.app to access the com­mand line. I pre­fer to use the CLI, or Com­mand Line Inter­face. The GUI is a lit­tle clunky for this pur­pose and doesn’t even have what you need. Hand­Brake is an excel­lent appli­ca­tion for con­vert­ing your favorite Flash files, VOB fold­ers, or almost any­thing else really, for use on your iPhone, iPod or AppleTV.īut it also has another great use: cre­at­ing videos for the web.