HandBrake1.3.3
Versatile video encoder; convert any source to MPEG-4 and more.
Overview
HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
Features
- Supported Sources
- VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted -- CSS is not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), BDMV folder (unencrypted), and some .VOB and .TS files
- Any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.
- Outputs
- File format: MP4 and MKV
- Video: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
- Audio: AAC, HE-AAC, AC3, MP3, Vorbis, FLAC (16-bit, 24-bit) or AAC, MP3, AC3, DTS and DTS-HD pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)
- Miscellaneous features
- Chapter selection
- Soft subtitle support (DVD/VobSub in DVD/MKV/MP4, Blu-ray/PGS in BD/MKV, SRT files, SRT/UTF-8 in MKV, ASS/SSA in MKV, TX3G/3GPP in MP4 - DVD/VobSub, Blu-ray/PGS and ASS/SSA subtitles can also be burned-in the picture)
- Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
- Grayscale encoding
What's new in HandBrake
Version 1.3.3:
General:
- Fixed ISO 639-2/B language codes not set correctly in MKV (affects Hebrew, Indonesian, Javanese, and Yiddish)
- Improved support for sources where pixel format cannot be quickly identified, e.g. due to delayed video track start
- Added logging to identify where hardware support is disabled
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
Video:
- Improved Intel QSV memory footprint by eliminating a buffer pool
- Improved Intel QSV H.265 memory buffer size as required by newer Intel Media SDK
- Fixed and improved Intel QSV in various situations, especially hardware decoding
- Fixed full range video being not being identified as limited range after conversion where filters are used
Subtitles
- Fixed handling of overlapping SSA import subtitles (791adba)
- Improved support for out-of-order SSA subtitles as allowed by specification
Command line interface:
- Fixed --preset failure unless full path is specified, e.g. --preset="Category Name/Preset Name"
Build system:
- Improved Flatpak to better conform to freedesktop metainfo standards
- Improved Intel QSV Flatpak plugin build effiency using cmake-ninja
- Added a patch to fix cross compiling libdav1d using GCC 10.x (quality of life improvement)
Third-party libraries:
- Updated libraries - FFmpeg 4.2.3 (decoding and filters)
Fixed:
- Preview layout not displaying properly on OS X 10.11 El Capitan
- Incorrect copyright year on About dialog
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App requirements:
- Intel 64
- OS X 10.11.0 or later
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