HandBrake 1.0.0

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 1.0.0 changelog:

General

New online documentation at https://handbrake.fr/docs
Completely overhauled the official presets
New general use presets for broad compatibility
New device presets, now more up-to-date for common devices
New web presets
New Matroska (MKV) presets, including VP9 video with Opus audio
Official presets from HandBrake 0.10.x are still available under Legacy
New JSON-based preset system including command line support
New JSON-based API for interacting with libhb
Improvements to audio/video sync engine to better handle difficult sources
Many miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements (over 1700 code commits!)

Video

VP9 video encoding via libvpx
Intel QuickSync Video H.265/HEVC encoder
Requires Intel Skylake or newer CPU
Ultra HD / 4K color pass through (support for BT.2020)
Additional standard frame rate selections in the graphical interfaces
New Auto anamorphic mode maximizes storage resolution, replaces Strict anamorphic mode
New Pad filter (command line only for now)
New Decomb/Deinterlace filter settings and improved defaults
Rotate filter now available in all graphical interfaces
New NLMeans filter tunes Tape and Sprite for analog tape recordings and vintage video games, respectively
Assembly optimizations NLMeans filter improve performance up to 10%
Assembly optimizations in x264 encoder improve performance for faster presets by 5-10%
x265 encoder quality improvements, especially when using tune grain
High bit depth encoding support via external shared libraries (video pipeline is still 8-bit 4:2:0)
x264 10-bit
x265 10-bit and 12-bit