HandBrake 1.3.3

HandBrake

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.

Here is a detailed breakdown of HandBrake’s features:

Built-in Device Presets—Get started with HandBrake in seconds by choosing a profile optimized for your device, or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions. Simple, easy, fast. For those that want more choice, tweak many basic and advanced options to improve your encodes.
Supported Input Sources—Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or Blu-ray sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.

Outputs:

File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV
Video Encoders: H.265 (x265 and QuickSync), H.264(x264 and QuickSync), H.265 MPEG-4 and MPEG-2, VP8 and Theora
Audio Encoders: AAC / HE-AAC, MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis
Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, E-AC3, DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD, AAC and MP3 tracks

Additional features:

Title/ Chapter Selection
Queue up Multiple Encodes
Chapter Markers
Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
Constant Quality or Average BitRate Video Encoding
Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
Video Filters—Deinterlacing, Decomb, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and Scaling
Live Video Preview

HandBrake 1.3.3 changelog (all platforms):

General

Fixed ISO 639-2/B language codes not set correctly in MKV (affects Hebrew, Indonesian, Javanese, and Yiddish) (#2903)
Improved support for sources where pixel format cannot be quickly identified, e.g. due to delayed video track start (#2893)
Added logging to identify where hardware support is disabled
Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Video

Improved Intel QSV memory footprint by eliminating a buffer pool (#2675)
Improved Intel QSV H.265 memory buffer size as required by newer Intel Media SDK (#2862)
Fixed and improved Intel QSV in various situations, especially hardware decoding (#873, #2660, #2661, #2829)
Fixed full range video being not being identified as limited range after conversion where filters are used (#2859)

Subtitles

Fixed handling of overlapping SSA import subtitles (791adba)
Improved support for out-of-order SSA subtitles as allowed by specification (#2906)

Command line interface

Fixed --preset failure unless full path is specified, e.g. --preset="Category Name/Preset Name" (#2838)

Build system

Improved Flatpak to better conform to freedesktop metainfo standards
Improved Intel QSV Flatpak plugin build effiency using cmake-ninja
Added a patch to fix cross compiling libdav1d using GCC 10.x (quality of life improvement)
Official HandBrake 1.3.3 Windows release is built using GCC 9.x and is not directly affected by this issue

Third-party libraries

Updated libraries - FFmpeg 4.2.3 (decoding and filters)

Mac

Fixed preview layout not displaying properly on OS X 10.11 El Capitan
Fixed incorrect copyright year on About dialog (#2830)

Windows

Fixed a crash related to the dark theme (#2816)
Fixed a potential crash related to preview image memory allocation (#2871)
Fixed a potential crash due to certain actions causing no preset being selected (#2875)
Fixed missing E-AC-3 encoder option (#2855)
Fixed hardware encoder support unavailable in portable build (#2832)
Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements