HandBrake 1.3.0

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 1.3.0 release notes:

This release includes a redesigned queue interface, new presets for the PS4 Pro and Discord, support for Ultra HD Blu-ray discs (without copy protection), AV1 decoding, WebM container support, many new and updated translations, and much more.

HandBrake 1.3.0 changelog (all platforms):

General

HandBrake is now translated into many more languages
Redesigned queue UI
Removed Windows Mobile presets (see the list of compatible replacements on GitHub)
Improved log output by silencing many lines at standard log level
Improved quality of Gmail presets slightly
Added Playstation 2160p60 4K Surround preset (supports PS4 Pro)
Added Discord and Discord Nitro presets

Video

Updated Intel Quick Sync Video to use Direct3D 11 API
Updated minimum title scan duration to only apply to disc-based sources like Blu-ray and DVD
Improved detection of MPEG-1 video in program streams
Improved interface to FFmpeg avfilter and color handling
Improved Nvidia NVENC constant quality encoding slightly by not setting qmin and qmax
Replaced pp7 Deblock filter with FFmpeg Deblock filter
Added support for reading Ultra HD Blu-ray discs (without copy protection)
Added support for reading AV1 via libdav1d
Added encoding to WebM container format
Added Chroma Smooth filter (CLI only)
Added zero-copy path for Intel QSV encoding removed in a previous release
Added support for Intel QSV low power encoding (lowpower=1)
Added support for AMD VCE encoding on Linux via Vulkan
Added ability to select x265 encoder level and Fast Decode tune

Audio

Updated audio resampling code to use FFmpeg swresample instead of libsamplerate
Added source audio bit rate to tracks list
Added ability to select unknown language tracks
Added automatic track name pass through

Subtitles

Added ability to import external SSA/ASS subtitles
Added ability to select unknown language tracks
Added automatic track name pass through

Command line interface

Added additional unit aliases to --start-at and --stop-at, notably seconds and frames

Build system

HandBrake now builds with libnuma on Linux
Fixed Python bytestrings causing newlines to be ignored in build output
Fixed Xcode ignoring make jobs parameter and utilizing all CPU cores (macOS only)
Updated configure to enable most hardware encoders by default where appropriate by platform
Updated all scripts for compatibility with Python 3
Updated mac-toolchain-build script with newer tool versions many improvements
Updated mingw-w64-build script with mingw-w64 6.0.0, GCC 9.2, and many improvements
Improved compatibility with GCC 9 and recent Clang releases
Improved compatibility with recent Xcode releases (macOS only)
Improved host/build semantics
Improved namespace isolation
Improved handling of all options passed to configure
Improved configure help output
Improved detection of missing executable dependencies during configure
Added support for building on NetBSD
Added --harden configure parameter to enable buffer overflow protections
Added --sandbox configure parameter to enable sandbox build target on macOS
Added --enable-gtk4 configure parameter to build with GTK 4 instead of GTK 3
Added summary of build options to configure output
Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements [full release notes]