HandBrake1.3.2

Name: HandBrake
Rating: 4.75 (136 reviews)

05 May 2020

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.

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.

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)

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

Version 1.3.2:

Fixed point to point end detection in certain scenarios (#2603)
Improved support for H.265 video in AVI container produced by some security cameras (#2622)
Added logging to identify problematic sources where container and video track pixel aspect ratios differ
Added logging to help debug potential JSON API issues

Fixed color range conversion being applied twice when scaling video (#2561)
Fixed incorrect identification of support for QSV HEVC encoder on older Intel hardware (#2558)
Added logging to identify automatic picture rotation
Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Fixed an upstream FFmpeg issue where passing through AAC ADTS audio could produce invalid MKV output in rare cases (error instead) (#2809)

Fixed uninitialized memory in NLMeans prefilter leading to video corruption at bottom of picture (only affects custom settings) (#2576)
Fixed a crash in the Detelecine filter with out of bounds parameters (only affects custom settings) (#2560, #2804)

Fixed burned in subtitles position offset where cropscale filter is not used (#2449)

Fixed subtitles not being selected when specifying --all-subtitles without also specifying a non-empty --subtitle-lang-list

Fixed building the GTK graphical interface for use on Windows (link ole32)
Updated Flatpak manifest creation script for compatibility with Python 3
Updated Flatpak runtime and numactl library versions, QSV plugin
Improved minimum version dependencies to facilitate building on systems with older automake and pkg-config
Added a workaround for an upstream libdav1d issue affecting installation on FreeBSD (#2662)
Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
Fixed selection behavior new track audio mixdown set to DPL2 instead of stereo (#2641)
Fixed queued job failures related to removable drives by resolving security scoped resources as needed (#2566)