HandBrake 1.8.1

Version 1.8.1 of HandBrake has been released. This open-source program, available for Windows, Linux and macOS, can convert film material to files with, among others, an h.264, h265 or mpeg4 image format and an aac, ac3, mp3 or Ogg Vorbis audio format. There are presets available for common devices, such as an iPad, Apple TV or Android tablet, and things like chapter division and subtitles can also be taken into account. The following changes and improvements were made in this release:

Video

• Fixed a warning/misconfiguration when repeat-headers is used with the x265 encoder.(#6061)
• Fixed an issue where the NVEnc encoder ignored the level option

Subtitles

• Fixed an issue where dvd subtitles could be corrupted during rendering.

Filters

• Fixed an issue that caused video artifacts to occur when using the eedi2 filter (#6073)

Third-party libraries

• Updated libraries
  • FFmpeg 7.0.1 (decoding and filters)
  • libdav1d 1.4.3 (AV1 video decoding)

Mac

• Fixed a stall in the queue that could happen if the encoding process crashes when configuring a job
• Removed the “Show” button from the notifications when there is nothing to show

Windows

• Hardware decoding is now defaulted to off for new installations. Users can opt-in whilst making sure they are running up-to-date drivers
• Fixed an issue where hardware decoding could erroneously be used for previews
• Fixed an issue where auto name was triggering too aggressively (#6079)
• Removed an erroneous error message when dragging files onto the main window that include a subtitle file.(#6065)