Originally Posted by
boberonicus
No, handbrake runs on the Mac. You'll also need the "VLC Player" installed. It used to be that VLC version 1.0.2 was required, not sure if that's still the case.
I've heard there's been a new version of Handbrake released, and it doesn't require VLC - I haven't tried it myself yet so I'm not able to verify this.