Reduce Movie size without losing the Video Quality

Many times its very difficult if you want to carry a movie in your mobile or Pendrive. Due to the size of the movie, it's not possible. Then you need to compress the movie, for that you have to wait for long and at the end you end with 'Let it be'. So, what if you get to reduce the movie size to its half. Yes, now its possible. The application HandBreak lets you do this.

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.




Supported Sources:

• Most common multimedia files that libavformat and libavcodec support.
• Any DVD or Bluray-like source which is NOT copy-protected. (removal of copy protection is not supported)

Outputs:

• File format: MP4(M4V) and MKV
• Video: MPEG-4(ffmpeg), H.264(x264), or Theora(libtheora)
• Audio: AAC, CoreAudio AAC (OS X Only), MP3, or Vorbis. AC-3 pass-through, DTS pass-thorugh (MKV only)

1. You can define the file size of a movie. That means, you can convert a movie to your defined size like 300mb, 500mb, 700mb etc. (Look at the Video tab)
2. You can define the Avg Bitrate (kbps) of a movie like 720, 1080 etc. (Look at theVideo tab)

How to use:

• At first, download Handbrake and install it. 
• Run it and click Source to choose a video file or movie. 
• Then click Browse to select a destination folder save the converted file and name it. 
• Then click Container: button to choose MKV File. 
• If you want to add a subtitle file that means .srt file you have to go Subtitles tab. 
• Now look at the top. You will see a Start button there. Just click this button. 
• Converting process will be started. 
• Then watch the converted movie.

Download HandBreak here

Cheers!!!