Handbrake — Video Converter

guest · Jan 2, 2023

HandBrake is a multithreaded tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.

HandBrake is the perfect tool for converting DVDs to MPEG-4 format or even backing up to a disk. With it, you can easily convert your videos and subtitles and write them into AVI, MPEG-4 format, OGM video or AAC, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis audio. You also can preview results, create task lists (for batch conversions), and configure the program's settings, among many other useful advantages included with this audio and video tool.
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Features

Built-in Device Presets
Get started with HandBrake in seconds by choosing a profile optimised 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 BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.
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Outputs:

File Containers: .MP4, .MKV and WebM

Video Encoders: AV1, H.265 and H.264, MPEG-4 and MPEG-2, VP8 and VP9

Optional Hardware accelerated video encoding

Audio Encoders: AAC / HE-AAC, MP3, FLAC, AC3, E-AC3, Opus and Vorbis

Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, E-AC3, FLAC, DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD, AAC, Opus, MP3 and MP2 tracks

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Title / chapter and range selection

Batch Scan and Queueing of encodes

Chapter Markers

Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)

Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding

Support for VFR and CFR

Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Denoise, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Colourspace, Cropping and scaling

Live Static and Video Preview

Handbrake 1.6 Released (December 28, 2022)

The HandBrake Team is pleased to announce the release of HandBrake 1.6.0.

This release adds AV1 video encoding via SVT-AV1 (software) and Intel QSV (hardware), high bit depth and color depth support for various encoders and filters, new official presets and preset revisions, a host of third-party library upgrades, new translations and translation updates, and various graphical interface improvements.
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For Windows Users, please be aware that HandBrake requires Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime 6. If you are unsure how to install this, please see our forum post for details.
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guest · Jan 2, 2023

Handbrake 1.6 video converter released with AV1 video encoding support
By Martin Brinkmann - December 29, 2022

The developers of the open source video converter Handbrake have released Handbrake 1.6 to the public. The new version is available 64-bit versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11, as well as for Mac and Linux devices.

Handbrake used to support older versions of the Windows operating system, but this changed with the release of Handbrake 1.5.1 in early 2022.
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Handbrake 1.6 is a major new release that includes multiple improvements and changes. Noteworthy additions include support for new audio and video formats, revised presets for web publishing and filter updates.

Our first review of Handbrake dates back to 2007. Back then, I published a tutorial on converting DVDs with Handbrake.
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Handbrake 1.6
Handbrake 1.6 introduces support for AV1 video encoding. Users of the program may now convert existing media to the format using custom settings or new presets that the developers added. New and updated presets are also available for HEVC and the Web, which now features Creator, Email and Social presets. Support for VP8 presets was removed in the build. The developers note that the VP8 video encoder is deprecated and that it will be removed in a future build. The Theora decoded is deprecated as well and will also be removed in future builds.

The Linux version has reached parity with the Mac and Windows graphical interfaces, and several quality of life improvements were added in the release. Mac and Windows changes are mostly bug fixes and translation improvements. Mac users may use Quick Look in the queue now, though.
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guest · Jan 23, 2023

Handbrake 1.6.1 Released (January 23, 2023)
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HandBrake 1.6.1
All platforms
Video

Fixed a potential decoder issue that could cause desync with audio (#4788, #4789)

Command line interface

Fixed inability to name external subtitles tracks using --subname

Mac

Fixed behavior of quality slider when changing encoders

Linux

Fixed translations missing updates as part of 1.6.0 (#4790)

Bulgarian (Български)

Corsican (Corsu)

Dutch (Nederlands)

German (Deutsch)

Spanish (Español)

Fixed (partially) Intel QSV hardware detection (#4768)

Fixed a potential crash when canceling an Intel QSV encode (#4341)

Fixed building with -Werror=format-security by adding missing format strings where needed

Windows

Fixed quality slider not allowing negative values for encoders supporting them

Fixed issues upgrading presets from older versions (#4820)

Fixed a potential graphical interface hang when stopping the queue (#4782)

Fixed optical disc drives on the source selection pane not scanning correctly (#4771)

Fixed erroneous display of 2-pass check box for Intel QSV AV1 encoder (not yet supported) (#4777)

Fixed a build configuration issue that broke version 1.6.0 for Windows on arm64

Fixed an issue that prevented NVDEC from being available

Fixed passthru audio erroneously falling back to encoding (#4795)

Fixed the Save New Preset button incorrectly overwriting recently added presets (#4804)

EASTER · Jan 23, 2023

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