1.2.2

HandBrake 1.2.2

Mac

• Fixed built-in application updater.

Windows

• Fixed crash on first launch for new installs, or older installs without settings.json
• Fixed an issue where the summary tab wasn't always up-to-date

1.2.1

HandBrake 1.2.1

All platforms

General

• Fixed potential crashes due to use of uninitialized variables
• Improved minimum duration to only apply to DVD and BD sources
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Video

• Fixed incorrect video rotation where rotation is explicitly flagged as none
• Fixed yadif deinterlace filter not properly deinterlacing all frames
• Fixed missing frame at the end of encodes from m2ts sources
• Fixed detection of MPEG-1 video in program streams by improving probing of unknown streams
• Fixed decoding of MPEG-1 video in DVD sources
• Fixed Apple VideoToolbox encoding issues related to pyramidal B-frames
• Fixed lapsharp filter corrupting frame edges
• Improved NLMeans performance by reducing number of threads used with CPUs with high logical core counts
• Improved AMD VCE encoding to enable placing key frames at chapter markers
• Improved calculation of final frame duration
• Improved support for BT.2020 color space

Audio

• Fixed channel mapping for AAC 5.1 encoding (signal 5.1 Back instead of 5.1 Side which is less compatible)

Command line interface

• Fixed selection of encoders applied to tracks selected with --all-audio
• Fixed audio settings where more are specified than exist in the preset
• Fixed overriding audio bit rate set by the preset

Build system

• Fixed libvpx cross compilation with GCC 8 by disabling AVX-512
• Fixed x265 cross compilation with GCC 8
• Updated to mingw-w64-build 4.1.1 with improvements to error reporting and support for sha256sum on systems without shasum
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Third-party libraries

• Updated libraries
  • libmfx (upstream API 1.27)

Linux

• Fixed Flatpak icon validation by reducing resolution to pass new restrictions
• Fixed Flatpak accessing gvfs mounted filesystems by adding an additional access permission
• Fixed display of special characters in preset names
• Fixed exporting presets to sanitize system reserved characters
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Mac

• Fixed incorrect file extension when selecting a preset
• Fixed potential user interface hang on macOS 10.12 Sierra
• Fixed potential issue caused by setting work state to done before all threads have closed
• Improved usability of preview controls overlay by increasing its size
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Windows

• Fixed application uninstaller sometimes appearing behind the installer
• Fixed potential crash when loading settings from older HandBrake versions
• Fixed official presets not updating when a newer HandBrake version is installed
• Fixed maximum resolution limit when selecting a preset (source or preset, whichever is smaller)
• Fixed crop and anamorphic settings not being restored when editing a queued job
• Fixed audio and subtitle selection behaviour where any language + first track are selected
• Restored options control on the queue window previously removed in HandBrake 1.2.0
• Improved user interface on displays close to the minimum recommended resolution
• Improved quality of text rendering on the installer for high density displays
• Improved ordering of presets and preset categories
• Improved QSV compatibility with newer Intel drivers by updating libmfx
• Improved removal of small temporary files that could be left behind in certain cases
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

1.2.0

HandBrake 1.2.0

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 documentation for 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 in 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 behavior
• Removed preferences option to show the advanced tab (deprecated and slated for removal)
• Removed options menu from queue in favor 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=<id1,id2,...>
• 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

1.1.2

HandBrake 1.1.2

All platforms

General

• Fixed Blu-ray title name where reading from raw device
• Improved handling of broken units in Blu-ray source (skip and continue reading)

Video

• Fixed rare crash related to preview images, anamorphic, and default preset values
• Fixed jitter produced by 59.94 fps to 29.97 fps frame rate conversion

Audio

• Fixed duration of silence buffers (may improve audio/video sync for some sources)

Build system

• Fixed linker warning by setting libvpx target to minimum supported macOS version
• Fixed build failure with old GTK versions
• Miscellaneous Flatpak-related fixes and improvements

Third-party libraries

• Updated libraries (necessary to pull in needed bug fixes)
  • libdvdread 6.0.0 (DVD decoding)
  • libdvdnav 6.0.0 (DVD decoding)

Linux

• Fixed potential crash where $HOME directory is missing
• Fixed legacy preferences causing preset window being shown at every launch
• Fixed preset name and menu display on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr
• Fixed default destination file name for Blu-ray source to not include MPLS number
• Fixed queue reloading in Flatpak sandbox
• Fixed toolbar icons alignment and use correct art for lower pixel density
• Updated most translations

Mac

• Fixed menu item and tooltip strings related to selection behaviour
• Fixed crash where presets file contains invalid UTF-8
• Last version to support macOS 10.7 to 10.11

Windows

• Fixed incorrect track selection behaviours on audio and subtitle tabs
• Fixed creating an unneeded HandBrake Team directory in the user's Roaming directory
• Improved path handling when opening a source directory from the queue
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

1.1.1

HandBrake 1.1.1

All platforms

General

• Fixed a potential crash in the comb detection filter
• Fixed a potential crash in the padding filter

Video

• Fixed decoding certain very high bit rate ultra-high definition sources with extra large packets
• Fixed last frame in source video missing in output

Audio

• Fixed crash when decoding an empty audio track

Build system

• Updated mac-toolchain-build script Nasm url and improved curl parameters for robustness

Third-party libraries

• Updated libraries (necessary to pull in needed bug fixes)
  • libvpx 1.7.0 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
  • x264 155 r2901 (H.264/AVC video encoding)

Linux

• Fixed Ubuntu PPA build date
• Fixed a display issue with the quality slider control
• Fixed issues occurring when running multiple HandBrake instances simultaneously
• Updated Russian translation
• Updated support for creating Flatpak bundles (experimental)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Mac

• Fixed corrupted output with VP8 and VP9 encoders
• Fixed building x264 using Clang and -march=native/-mavx (thanks H. Gramner for the upstream patch)

Windows

• Fixed issues with queue recovery when running multiple HandBrake instances simultaneously
• Fixed an issue with a When Done action potentially causing the last queue item to be marked as a warning instead of success
• Fixed burn-in behavior with MP4 files; after the first burn-in track, no additional tracks that require burn-in will be added
• Improved window resize behavior for Add Selection to Queue dialog and allowed space bar to toggle checkbox for selected row
• Improved tabbing behavior in various circumstances
• Improved adding a new preset with the same name as an existing user preset; the existing preset will now be updated properly
• Improved privacy by adding an option to disable the Summary tab preview image
• Updated installer to block installation on 32-bit systems to avoid confusion (unsupported since 1.1.0)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

1.1.0

HandBrake News

HandBrake 1.1.0

All platforms

General

• Improved user interface
  • Redesigned main window for consistency and usability; overall flow is top to bottom, left to right
  • Added new preset controls directly in main workflow
  • Added new summary tab for overview of settings at a glance
  • Updated interface icons to support high resolution displays
• New and improved official presets
  • Added new presets for Vimeo and YouTube
  • Added new 2160p/4K device presets for Apple TV, Chromecast, Fire TV, and Roku
  • Added new Production presets for post-production video editing workflows
  • Added additional 2160p/4K Matroska presets
• Improved AppleTV 4K support
• Improved Intel QuickSync Video support
  • Added Linux support (experimental)
  • Added 10-bit H.265/HEVC encoding support for Kaby Lake and newer CPUs
  • Added support for multiple GPUs via D3D11 encode path
• Many bug fixes and improvements

Video

• Added new Unsharp and kernel-based Laplacian LapSharp sharpening filters
• Added CSM prefilter option to NLMeans filter
• Added support for mobile device orientation via auto-rotation container flag
• x265 10- and 12-bit encoders are now included by default; additional dll files are no longer required

Command line interface

• Added support for adaptive streaming (SPS and PPS before IDR frames) via the --inline-parameter-sets parameter
• Added --json parameter to output scan/status information in JSON format, useful for scripting
• Audio sample rate parameter --arate now accepts "auto" as a valid value

Build system

• Added support for FreeBSD 11.1 (must compile from source)
• Added support for compiling on Windows under MSYS (experimental, slow)
• Updated to mingw-w64-build 3.1.1 with support for mingw-w64 5.0.3 and gcc 7.2.0
• Update mac-toolchain-build to add NASM 2.13.2 (now required for x264)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Third-party libraries

• Updated libraries
  • FDK AAC 0.1.5 (AAC audio encoding, must compile from source)
  • FreeType 2.8.1 (subtitles)
  • HarfBuzz 1.7.2 (subtitles)
  • Jansson 2.10 (JSON architecture)
  • LAME 3.100 (MP3 audio encoding)
  • Libav 12.3 (decoding and filters)
  • libass 0.14.0 (subtitles)
  • libbluray 1.0.2 (Blu-ray decoding)
  • libdvdnav 5.0.3 (DVD decoding)
  • libdvdread 5.0.3 (DVD decoding)
  • libiconv 1.15 (character encoding support)
  • libmfx (upstream API 1.23)
  • libogg 1.3.2 (Xiph codecs support)
  • libopus 1.2.1 (Opus audio encoding)
  • libsamplerate 0.1.9-35-g02ebb9f (audio resampling)
  • libtheora 1.1.1 (Theora video encoding)
  • libvorbis 1.3.5 (Vorbis audio encoding)
  • libvpx 1.6.1 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
  • libxml2 2.9.4 (general)
  • x264 155 r2893 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
  • x265 2.6 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
  • zlib 1.2.11 (general)

Linux

• Added option to configure low disk space warning level
• Added Intel QuickSync Video encoder (experimental, requires specific Intel driver)
• Added support for Ubuntu 18.04 and 17.10; Ubuntu 15.04 support is removed
• Many other bug fixes and improvements

Mac

• Added option to configure low disk space warning level
• Improved support for VoiceOver navigation
• Many other bug fixes and improvements

Windows

• Added option to configure low disk space warning level
• Added option to play a sound (MP3/WAV) when encode or queue is finished
• Added option to show progress, pass, passcount in the application title or task tray icon tooltip
• Added more granular progress reporting during search for start of file and muxing
• Added support for per-display resolution awareness
• Added support for running HandBrake in a portable mode (see included portable.ini.template)
• Added custom anamorphic to dimensions tab, it's back!
• Improved static preview window still previews rendering
• Improved audio selection behavior controls; dropdowns are now context aware and range limited with better defaults
• Improved UI constency throughout
• Many other bug fixes and improvements

1.0.7

HandBrake 1.0.7

All platforms

Video

• Fixed decoding of raw video in Matroska/MKV
• Fixed time stamp handling for containerless raw video
• Fixed memory leaks in OpenCL
• Fixed x265 2-pass encoding where video frame rate is altered by filters
• Improved handling of very small amounts of sync jitter (~1 tick)
• Improved handling of AVI files with broken indices

Audio

• Further refined fix for Libav crash encoding AAC at very high bitrates

Subtitles

• Removed fontconfig dependency on Mac and Windows; libass now uses CoreText/DirectWrite
• Improved subtitle font selection when burning in SRT/SSA subtitles

Command line interface

• Fixed preset subtitle burn defaults override

Build system

• Updated MinGW-w64 build script for improved compatibility with hardened GCC

Linux

• Fixed video preset control not updating
• Fixed audio passthru masks not updating until preset save
• Fixed application of SRT subtitles offset
• Updated translations: af, cs, ja_JP, ru, sk, sv

Windows

• Fixed When Done option not updating/resetting correctly
• Last version to support Windows Vista

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1.0.6

Never publicly released. See 1.0.7

1.0.5

Never publicly released. See 1.0.7

1.0.4

Never publicly released. See 1.0.7