HandBrake 1.9.1
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 1.9.1 changelog:
All platforms
General
- Fixed FFV1 pixel format selection when an hardware decoder is used (#6565)
- Fixed an issue that could happen when chapters titles are not UTF-8 (#6489)
- Fixed gcc14 aarch64 build failures (#6463)
Subtitles
- Improved support for SRT files with overlapping subtitles (#6155)
Audio
- Fixed AC3 and EAC3 extradata in MKV (#6582)
Third-party libraries
- nv-codec-headers: Harden DLL loading so that it only uses system32 for the search path on Windows (#6548)
Updated libraries
- libdav1d 1.5.1 (AV1 video decoding)
- HarfBuzz 10.2.0 (subtitles)
- libjpeg-turbo 3.1.0 (preview image compression)
Windows
- Fix an issue with the autoname function not updating when title is the only option (#6517)
- Fix an issue where the audio encoder may not display correctly after a queue has been imported and queue item edited. This may exhibit in other scenarios as well (#6524)
- Fix an issue with titlebar / taskbar progress erroneously showing with multi-instance encodes (#6477)
- Fix a crash when importing chapters where there is a chapter count mis-match (#6514)
- Fixed an issue with autoname pre/postfix option where it would apply regardless of file path collision.
- Fixed an issue where the crop controls would not enable correctly when editing jobs (#6614)