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1.0.3
HandBrake 1.0.3
All platforms
Video
- Fixed H.264 decoding using Libav where the initial GOP was dropped
- Fixed 2-pass x265 encoding where the source header incorrectly specifies frame rate
- Fixed 2-pass encoding with bob deinterlace and constant frame rate
- Fixed a seek issue in Libav while reading MKV sources with embedded subtitles
- Fixed multiple issues preventing Libav from opening WMV sources properly
- Fixed miscellaneous issues in Libav
- Fixed memory leaks in OpenCL
- Improved sync for streams delayed by a large amount
Audio
- Fixed a Libav crash encoding AAC at very high bitrates
- Fixed a potential hang in Libav while decoding AAC
- Improved Libav audio sync with MP4 sources containing edit lists
- Improved mapping of single channel layouts to single channel layouts
Linux
- Fixed a potential crash when selecting video encoders
- Fixed various controls not applying values properly
Mac
- Fixed a crash when attempting to edit a queued job
- Improved audio start point to use edit lists when encoding using CoreAudio AAC
Windows
- Fixed Title Specific Scan for DVD/Blu-ray
- Fixed broken/missing NLMeans denoise tunes
- Fixed an issue that could cause error -17 when encoding using Intel QuickSync Video
- Fixed an issue where the SRT language code was not being set correctly
1.0.2
HandBrake 1.0.2
All platforms
Video
- Fixed point to point encoding end point when using frames as the unit
- Improve error handling for libdvdread and libavcodec decoders
Audio
- Fixed an issue where fallback encoder bitrate was not set properly
Subtitles
- Fixed incorrect duration for UTF-8 subtitles
- Fixed an issue causing extra blank lines for UTF-8 subtitles in MKV
Linux
- Fixed an issue sometimes preventing dragging and dropping of presets between folders
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
Mac
- Fixed video encoder options not reset when changing encoders
- Fixed incomplete encodes where the chapter count differs on queued items
- Fixed sleep prevention not working in certain scenarios
- Fixed automatic naming for EyeTV bundles
- Added additional checks to prevent source file overwriting
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
Windows
- Fixed video encoder options not reset when changing encoders
- Fixed subtitles defaults behaviors to improve how tracks are added
- Fixed issues related to source maximum and custom picture setting modes
- Fixed point to point settings when editing a queued job
- Fixed When Done controls not updating correctly on various screens
- Fixed split buttons not working correctly on audio and subtitles tabs
- Fixed destination path and file name error checking
- Fixed potential crash by disabling OpenCL detection when the scaler is not set to OpenCL Bicubic (workaround for broken system drivers)
- Fixed a potential crash when QSV is supported but disabled at the BIOS level
- Fixed memory leaks in the QSV encoder
- Added QSV detection for Intel Kaby Lake CPUs
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
1.0.1
HandBrake 1.0.1
All platforms
Video
- Fixed a potential crash when using the VP8 or VP9 video encoders
- Fixed a potential crash when using 2-pass ABR
Command line interface
- Fixed importing chapter names from a file
Linux
- Fixed Keep Aspect Ratio control (disabled) when anamorphic mode is Auto
- Widened presets list to accommodate longer preset names
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
Mac
- Fixed a potential crash when using the subtitles burn feature on macOS versions earlier than 10.12 Sierra
- Fixed certain controls not updating when saving or loading a preset
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
Windows
- Fixed certain controls not updating when saving or loading a preset
- Disabled QSV decoding by default when non-QSV encoder selected (configurable)
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
1.0.0
HandBrake 1.0.0
All platforms
General
- New online documentation at https://handbrake.fr/docs
- Completely overhauled the official presets
- New general use presets for broad compatibility
- New device presets, now more up-to-date for common devices
- New web presets
- New Matroska (MKV) presets, including VP9 video with Opus audio
- Official presets from HandBrake 0.10.x are still available under
Legacy
- New JSON-based preset system including command line support
- New JSON-based API for interacting with libhb
- Improvements to audio/video sync engine to better handle difficult sources
- Many miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements (over 1700 code commits!)
Video
- VP9 video encoding via libvpx
- Intel QuickSync Video H.265/HEVC encoder
- Requires Intel Skylake or newer CPU
- Ultra HD / 4K color pass through (support for BT.2020)
- Additional standard frame rate selections in the graphical interfaces
- New Auto anamorphic mode maximizes storage resolution, replaces Strict anamorphic mode
- New Pad filter (command line only for now)
- New Decomb/Deinterlace filter settings and improved defaults
- Rotate filter now available in all graphical interfaces
- New NLMeans filter tunes Tape and Sprite for analog tape recordings and vintage video games, respectively
- Assembly optimizations NLMeans filter improve performance up to 10%
- Assembly optimizations in x264 encoder improve performance for faster presets by 5-10%
- x265 encoder quality improvements, especially when using tune grain
- High bit depth encoding support via external shared libraries (video pipeline is still 8-bit 4:2:0)
- x264 10-bit
- x265 10-bit and 12-bit
Audio
- Opus audio encoding/decoding via libopus
- Passthru now supports E-AC-3, FLAC, and TrueHD audio formats
Subtitles
- Improved subtitles rendering for some languages via HarfBuzz
- Miscellaneous subtitles improvements
Command line interface
- Presets can now be imported and exported from the command line and are compatible with the graphical interfaces
- Queue exported from the graphical interfaces can now be imported by the command line interface (Linux and Windows only for now)
Build system
- Add scripts to manually build and install Mac and MinGW-w64 (compile for Windows on Linux) toolchains
- Add support for multiple source URLs for third-party downloads
- Add SHA256 hash verification for third-party downloads
- Add configure parameter to disable or filter allowed third-party downloads (see configure --help)
- Use HTTPS everywhere; the few cases where a third-party does not provide packages over https, handbrake.fr does
- New targets on Mac to install and uninstall after building
- Add flatpak packaging support (experimental)
Third-party libraries
- Updated libraries
- FreeType 2.6.5 (subtitles)
- Fontconfig 2.12.1 (subtitles)
- FriBidi 0.19.7 (subtitles)
- Libav 12 (encoding/decoding/muxing)
- libass 0.13.2 (subtitles)
- libbluray 0.9.3 (Blu-ray decoding)
- libmfx v6.0.0 (Intel QuickSync Video encoding/decoding)
- libvpx 1.5.0 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
- x264 148 r2708 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
- x265 2.1 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
- New libraries
- HarfBuzz 1.3.0 (subtitles)
- libopus 1.1.3 (Opus audio encoding)
Linux
- Add options for saving and loading queue files
- Removed system tray icon due to performance issues on Ubuntu
- Usability improvements
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
Mac
- Updated all tooltips
- Added undo/redo support to the graphical interface
- Improved drag and drop support
- Added Open Recent to the File menu
- Added Add Titles to Queue… to the File menu (batch queueing)
- Preview prompts to open in an external application when the internal player does not support the format
- Preview now displays volume and audio/subtitles language selection during playback
- Picture and Filters settings are now part of the main window
- Settings are preserved when selecting a new title (instead of reloading the last selected preset)
- Improved support for importing/exporting comma-separated (.csv) chapter markers
- Queue is now automatically paused when available disk space is low
- When Done action can now be changed directly from the Queue window
- When Done notification is now interactive (reveals the encoded file in Finder)
- Activity Log window is now searchable (press
⌘+fto activate) - XQuartz is no longer required for subtitle burn-in
- Updated Sparkle software update library
- Enabled DSA signature checking for improved security
- Usability improvements
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
Windows
- Graphical interface now uses libhb directly, instead of sending commands to the command line interface
- Encoding can now be paused and resumed
- Stopping encoding will finalize the partial file to be playable
- Reduced installer and install size
- The command line interface is no longer included in the graphical interface installer
- Update checker now verifies the signature of the update file for improved security
- Added support for quality-based audio encoding
- Added ability to import tab-separated (.tsv), XML (.xml), and plain text (.txt) chapter markers
- Improved the "configure default" options for audio and subtitles
- Default audio track behavior is now configurable
- Subtitles burn-in behavior is now configurable
- Removed DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) hardware-accelerated video decoding
- Was causing many issues without providing sufficient improvement to decoding efficiency
- May be added again at a later date if performance and stability improves
- Usability improvements
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
0.10.5
Release Highlights
- FDK AAC Encode is now disabled in the build system by default and will no longer be included in our binary releases. This affects Linux and Windows Builds. Mac builds still use Apple's Core Audio encoder.
- Updated x265 to version 1.9 which brings performance improvements and bug fixes.
- Few minor bug fixes, including improved handling of large AVI files.
Please Note: Binaries cannot be provided for this build. Only source code and original GPG signature files are provided.
0.10.4
0.10.3
0.10.2
0.10.1
0.10.0
HandBrake 0.10.0
Core
- Intel QuickSync Video Encode / Decode support. (Beta)
- Windows only currently. We hope to bring this to Linux user in the future.
- DXVA Hardware Decode support (Experimental)
- Windows Only. Suitable only for slower machines so disabled in preferences by default.
- Choice of Scalers
- Lanczos
- HandBrake's default scaler.
- Bicubic (OpenCL) (Experimental)
- Available on the Command Line (All Platforms) and Windows GUI. (Mac / Linux GUI's will come in a later release)
- Currently only available in OpenCL form so requires a AMD or Intel GPU supporting OpenCL 1.1 or later. Nvidia GPU's are not currently supported.
- When downscaling, up to 5% performance improvement can be achieved. No benefit when not downscaling.
- Small loss in quality over the Lanczos scaler.
- Lanczos
- Denoise
- hqdn3d filter now accepts individual settings for both chroma channels (Cr, Cb)
- New NLMeans denoiser. This is very slow, but results are significantly better than hqdn3d.
- Presets
- Added Windows Phone 8 Preset
- Updated Libraries
- x264 r2479-dd79a61
- Libav v10.1
- libbluray 0.5.0
- Libavformat is now used for muxing instead of mp4v2 and libmkv
- "Large File Size" checkbox has now bee removed for mp4, as the new muxer will transition to 64bit files automatically.
- mpeg2dec has also been replaced in favour of using libav
- The LibAV AAC encoder is now the default as FAAC has been removed.
- This encoder is adequate for most, but until it improves a bit further, we have enabled support for the FDK-AAC encoder also. This FDK option is a temporary measure until the LibAV encoder improves. Note that FDK-AAC is much slower and will likely bottleneck the encode process, but will produce better quality audio.
- H.265 encoder
- is now available through x265 1.4. While this encoder is still fairly new, we have seen some promising results come out of it. It's still under heavy active development and is only going to improve over time!
- Added VP8 Encoder (using libvpx)
- Available in MKV files only.
- Removed mcdeint deinterlace and decomb modes. This relied on the snow encoder in libav which has been was removed by upstream.
- Bug fixes and Misc Improvements
Windows
- Accessibility / Usability Improvements
- Added option to 'Use System Colors'. The app should now be usable in a High Contrast mode.
- Fixed Tab ordering to make the app more keyboard friendly.
- LibHB is now used for scanning instead of the CLI.
- Experiential Preview window is now available as a result. (Can be enabled via preferences)
- Improved the layout and design of the Audio and Subtitle tabs.
- Split buttons similar to the old 0.9.8 WinForms? GUI
- Improved layout on the track listbox to make better use of the space.
- Improvements to Auto-Naming feature.
- When Done
- Added an option that will reset this to 'Do nothing' when the app is closed and restarted.
- Presets
- New 'Presets' Menu
- Presets bar can now be hidden if it's not wanted.
- Numerous bug fixes
- Fixed the Issue in the source dropdown where the drive menu items did not work when clicked.
- Numerous fixes in the Picture settings panel around resolution calculation.
- Numerous fixes around the way Presets are loaded and saved, particularly around Picture settings.
- Removed Growl for Windows support due to bugs and issues with this library that remain unfixed. Project appears abandoned.
- Many misc other fixes.
- Windows XP is no longer supported. Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 or later is now a requirement.
- The 32bit build of the application is now considered deprecated. This is due to 32bit process memory limitations.
Mac
- Build system updates to compiled under OS X 10.9 / 10.10
- Automatic audio and subtitle track selection behaviours which can be stored per preset.
- Improvements to Auto-Naming feature.
- Misc UI enhancements.
- Bug fixes and Misc Improvements
Linux
- Automatic audio and subtitle track selection behaviours which can be stored per preset.
- Improvements to Auto-Naming feature.
- Batch Add to queue by list selection.
- Russian and Czech Translations
- Bug fixes and Misc Improvements
- Requires GTK3
Command Line Interface
- Basic support for return codes from the CLI. (0 = No Error, 1 = Cancelled, 2 = Invalid Input, 3 = Initialization error, 4 = Unknown Error")
- Bug fixes and Misc Improvements
Please Note: Binaries cannot be provided for this build. Only source code is available.