How to Install HandBrake on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS

In this guide, we will show you how to install HandBrake on Ubuntu systems.

HandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files. It was originally developed in 2003 by Eric Petit to make rippingDVDs to a data storage device easier.  HandBrake’s backend contains comparatively little original code; the program is an integration of many third-party audio and video libraries, both codecs (such as FFmpeg, x264, and x265) and other components such as video deinterlacers (referred to as “filters”). These are collected in such a manner to make their use more effective and accessible (e.g., so that a user does not have to transcode a video’s audio and visual components in separate steps, or with inaccessible command-line utilities).

Install HandBrake on Ubuntu-APT method

Follow the steps below to get started with HandBrake :

• Update your Ubuntu system packages with running the below command:

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y

• HandBrake package is available on Ubuntu base repository. So You can install it directly with:

sudo apt install handbrake -y

Install HandBrake on Ubuntu-PPA method

• OR you can install it via importing PPA repo as follows:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/handbrake -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4 -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/backports -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/fonts -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/graphics -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/multimedia -y

• Run the command below to reflect on PPA

sudo apt update -y

• Then install HandBrake as shown below:

sudo apt install handbrake -y

Install HandBrake-Flatpak method

NOTE: Also you can install HandBrake with Flatpak

Flatpak, formerly known as xdg-app, is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system.

• So install the Flatpak manager with running the following command:

sudo apt install flatpak -y

• Enable Flatpak using the following command

sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

• Install HandBrake using the following flatpak command.

flatpak install flathub fr.handbrake.ghb -y

Access HandBrake

• You can access it from CLI with running the following command:

handbrake

• You can search on the system search bar by typing HandBrake as follows

• Alternatively, Flatpak users will need to launch using the command below:

flatpak run fr.handbrake.ghb

• HandBrake will be launched as shown below

How to Remove (Uninstall) HandBrake

• Remove HandBrake APT Method

sudo apt autoremove handbrake --purge -y

• Remove HandBrake with Flatpak Remove Method:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data  fr.handbrake.ghb
flatpak remove --unused

Install HandBrake -Conclusion

That’s it

Thanks.