HandBrake 1.8.0

Version 1.8.0 of HandBrake has been released. Available for Windows, Linux, and macOS, this open source program can convert footage into files including h.264, h265, or mpeg4 image formats and aac, ac3, mp3, or Ogg Vorbis sound formats. There are presets available for commonly used equipment, such as an iPad, Apple TV or Android tablet, and things such as chapter division and subtitles can also be taken into account. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

General

• Allowed muxing VP9 and FLAC in the MP4 container
• Removed timestamp jitters when using a constant NTSC frame rate in the MP4 container
• Removed support for importing legacy plist based presets from much older versions of HandBrake
• Updated iso639 language codes list

Video

• Added support for the FFV1 encoder, including a new preset “Preservation FFV1” under the Professional category
• Added support for multi- pass CQ with VP9
• Added support for VP9 tunes
• Added Dolby Vision dynamic metadata pass through for SVT-AV1
• Improved Decomb speed by removing unneeded frame copies
• Improved Framerate Shaper metrics for high depth frames

Command line interface

• Fixed subtitle “scan” when not first in –subtitle list
• Fixed override of subtitle settings
• Fixed processing audio overrides to preset

Audio

• Added TrueHD encoder
• Added 88.2/96/176.4/192 kHz sample rates for TrueHD and FLAC encoders
• Improved audio tracks selection by tracking “linked” audio tracks
• Fixed incorrect channel layout when encoding a 6.1 track to Opus

Subtitles

• Fixed passthru of VobSub tracks that contains empty of fully transparent subtitles samples
• Fixed an issue that prevented decoding VobSub tracks stored inside MP4
• Fixed burn-in of SSA/ASS subtitles inside MKV that have duplicated Read Orders

Build system

• Reviewed and improved compiler optimization options for the third-party libraries
• Improved libdovi package to make it possible to ship it in Flathub flatpak version

Third-party libraries

• Updated libraries
  • AMF 1.4.33 (AMD VCN video encoding)
  • FFmpeg 7.0 (decoding and filters)
  • HarfBuzz 8.4. 0 (subtitles)
  • libass 0.17.2 (subtitles)
  • libdav1d 1.4.1 (AV1 video decoding)
  • libdovi 3.3.0 (Dolby Vision dynamic metadata )
  • libopus 1.5.2 (Opus audio encoding)
  • libjpeg-turbo 3.0.3 (preview image compression)
  • libvpx 1.14.0 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)

  < li>oneVPL 2.10.1 (Intel QSV video encoding/decoding)

  • SVT-AV1 2.1.0 (AV1 video encoding)
  • x264 164 r3186 (H.264/AVC video encoding )
  • x265 3.6 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
  • zlib 1.3.1 (general)
• Removed libraries
  • libxml2

Linux

• Migrated the UI to GTK 4
• Added support for resurgent file scan
• Added support for drag/drop/multi-file scanning. (Including subtitle files)
• Added –clear-queue and –auto-start-queue flags to the linux ui app.
• Update the “Open Source” button to make the folder/batch mode more discoverable.
• Refreshed app icons
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
• Updated existing translations

Mac

• Added Dolby Vision and HDR10+ dynamic metadata pass through for VideoToolbox H.265 10-bit
• Added Metal accelerated Comb Detect and Framerate Shaper filters
• Added ability to drag and drop SRT and ASS subtitles files onto the main window
• Added support for excluding file extensions when opening files in batch mode
  • Default exclusions are common image, subtitles, and text file extensions; edit list in Preferences > Advanced
• Added new preference to pause encodes when switching to battery
• Added new preference to clear completed jobs at launch option
• Reworked notification options to allow per encode or per queue control

< li>Reworked toolbar to follow macOS UI style

• Improved performance of the Activity Log window
• Improved UI performances by Avoiding uneeded window resizes and slow AppKit controls
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
• Updated existing translations
• Added new translations
  • Ukrainian

Windows

• Requires Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime 8.0.x
• Added Invert Queue option to the Add to Queue Window (#5741)
• Drag/Drop now supports resurgent folder scan mode.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
• Updated existing translations
• Added new translations
  • Catalan (Català)