HandBrake 1.7.0

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 1.7.0 changelog:

General

Added Apple VideoToolbox hardware presets
Updated Creator presets
Disabled interlacing detection and removal; assume creators are working with progressive sources by default
Updated Social presets
Target higher quality and frame rate over shorter durations, without interlacing detection and removal
Better suited for modern social sharing of short live action clips and screen/game captures
Removed Email presets in favor of revised Social presets
Please stop sending videos via email or use the new Social presets
Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Video

Added AMD VCN AV1 encoder
Added NVIDIA NVENC AV1 encoder
Added support for SVT-AV1 multi-pass ABR mode
Added support for preserving ambient viewing enviroment metadata
Added QSV Rotate and Format filters
Improved performance on arm64 / aarch64 / Apple Silicon architectures
Latest FFmpeg provides faster HEVC decoding, 30% faster bwdif filter
New SVT-AV1 assembly optimizations provide up to 4x increase in performance
Improved video conversion speed by removing unneeded frame copies for better memory efficiency
Improved Dolby Vision dynamic range metadata pass through
Supported encoders: x265 10-bit
Supported profiles and cross-compatibility IDs: 8.4, 8.1, 7.6 (base layer only, converted to 8.1), 5.0
Improved HDR10+ dynamic range metadata pass through
Supported encoders: x265 10-bit, SVT-AV1
Improved QSV support on Linux (#4958)
Updated NVENC to not use multi-pass by default; user configurable advanced option
Renamed 2-pass encode option to multi-pass (#5019)
Fixed Intel QSV encoder outputting green video in some cases (#4842, #4876)
Fixed pixel format conversion slightly altering colors when using a 10-bit hardware encoder (#5011)
Fixed scan failures by using swscale instead of zscale when source resolution is not mod 2
Fixed incorrect PAR when reading from an anamorphic AV1 video track
Removed an artificial bitrate limit on VP9 CQ mode

Command line interface

Renamed --two-pass to --multi-pass and --no-two-pass to --no-multi-pass, removed -2 (#5019)
Fixed automatic cropping enabled despite using preset with cropping disabled (#5055)

Audio