HandBrake 1.2.0

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 1.2.0 changelog (all platforms):

General

Switched core decoding library from Libav to FFmpeg
Fixes numerous sources previously unreadable or otherwise broken
Facilitates a number of the improvements and features in this release and planned for the future
Removed deprecated Legacy presets
See the list of compatible replacements on GitHub
Updated official presets to use stereo instead of DPL2 mixdown
Avoids potential spatial positioning issues with the current DPL2 algorithm and wide pans in source material
Limited in impact since DPL2 decoding has not been in widespread use for years
Updated official presets descriptions to revise compatibility and mention recently released devices
Updated official presets to rename Fire TV to Amazon Fire
Added Amazon Fire 720p30 and Chromecast 1080p60 presets
Added {creation-date} and {creation-time} to automatic file naming

Video

Fixed an issue decoding Blu-ray titles where the aspect ratio is unknown (assume 16:9)
Fixed an issue encoding video with very short frame durations (less than 0.00285s or greater than 350 FPS)
Improved extradata handling to accommodate all codecs
Added support for decoding TIFF/LZMA video

Audio

Fixed potential decoding issue for audio lacking an explicit channel layout (intelligently guess the layout)
Fixed a potential crash during audio probe
Improved resampling to allow dithering for all codecs (only where necessary)
Improved quality of the default AAC encoder on non-Mac platforms (FFmpeg AAC), no longer experimental
Improved bit rate constraints to allow Opus as low as 6 kbit/s per channel
Added support for up to 7.1 channel AAC encoding (note that FDK AAC/HE-AAC do not support 6.1)
Added support for E-AC3 audio in MP4 container
Added Speex audio decoder

Subtitles

Fixed a potential crash where an SRT file cannot be opened
Added support for SRT files using periods instead of commas to delineate fractions

Command Line Interface

Fixed inability to override preset subtitles burn setting (native and none are now valid values for --subtitle-burned)

Build system

Fixed Linux packaging with an out-of-tree build directory
Fixed Windows graphical interface build script signing tool location
Removed --enable-local-* and associated contrib libraries; please see the documentationfor dependencies help
Updated to mingw-w64-build 4.1.0 with gcc 7.3.0, continuous output (keep alive), and miscellaneous improvements
Improved support for building with Xcode 10
Improved support for building on FreeBSD 11, 12, and 13
Improved Flatpak packaging for Linux (numerous fixes and improvements, no longer experimental)
Improved configure.py to always use the Python executable found by configure
Added script for creating Flatpak manifests
Added support for selecting a compiler via the CC environment variable
Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Third-party libraries

Removed libraries
Libav 12.3 (decoding and filters)
yasm 1.3.0
Updated libraries
libopus 1.3 (Opus audio encoding)
x264 157 r2935 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
x265 2.9 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
New libraries
FFmpeg 4.1 (decoding and filters)
liblzma (xz) 5.2.4 (LZMA video decoding, e.g. TIFF)
libspeex 1.2.0 (Speex audio decoding)

Linux

Fixed Blu-ray title name being set to device name (e.g. sr0) when scanning raw devices
Fixed Blu-ray default destination file names to no longer include MPLS number
Fixed an issue with queue state not being updated properly on reload
Fixed various issues importing presets
Updated most translations
Added initial support for GTK 4
Added ability to customize activity window font size and increased default from 7 to 8
Added destination overwrite protection (append number to file name on conflict)
Added {source-path} to automatic path setting
Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Mac

HandBrake now requires OS X 10.10 Yosemite or later
Removed preferences option to show the advanced tab (deprecated and slated for removal)
Fixed minor display issues on macOS 10.14 Mojave
Fixed queue toolbar icon not updating
Removed Growl in favor of native system notifications
Updated Sparkle automatic update library
Improved handling of invalid presets
Improved layout to better support localization
Improved preview border alignment on high density displays
Improved automatic naming to avoid updating when unrelated settings change
Improved criteria for showing destination overwrite warnings
Improved stop encoding confirmation dialog
Improved notifications to no longer play sounds when alerts are disabled
Added initial localization support and German translation
Added initial support for VideoToolbox hardware-accelerated encoding
Added support for Dark Mode on macOS 10.14 Mojave (new Dark Mode toolbar icons require building with Xcode 10 on Mojave)
Added Touch Bar support to various windows and dialogs
Added Finder progress bar to files currently encoding
Added Show Source in Finder to queue contextual menu (renamed Show in Finder to Show Destination in Finder)
Added validation for custom filter parameters
Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Windows

HandBrake now requires .NET Framework 4.7.1 or later (installer offers download if missing)
Fixed mixdown selection where the specified mixdown in the selected preset is not available
Fixed audio sample rate of 48 kHz being selected where Auto was the specified behaviour
Removed preferences option to show the advanced tab (deprecated and slated for removal)
Removed options menu from queue in favour of contextual menu
Improved layout to better support localization
Improved error handling when adding items to the queue
Improved multi-instance queue recovery to avoid loading queue files from the wrong instance
Improved filters layout and controls
Improved video quality slider by allowing it to grow with window size and setting x264/x265 granularity to 0.5
Improved SRT import default browse location (open source video location)
Improved keyboard shortcuts by making Ctrl-S open the destination save dialog (start encode is now Ctrl-E)
Added additional keyboard shortcuts for various actions
Added initial localization support and German translation
Added support for AMD VCE and Nvidia NVENC hardware-accelerated encoders
Added automatic queue archiving and option to select an archived queue for recovery (archives are removed after 7 days)
Added support for recovering specific queue files on start using --recover-queue-ids=
Added additional controls to passthru audio tracks to configure audio fallback parameters
Added ability to drag and drop SRT subtitles files onto the main window
Added option to disable preview image on summary tab
Added option to disable checking for update on start in portable mode
Added stop encoding confirmation dialog
Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements