HandBrake for Mac1.3.3

Name: HandBrake
Rating: 4.75 (523 reviews)

15 June 2020

Versatile video encoder; convert any source to MPEG-4 and more.

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What is HandBrake for Mac

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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OhEssex

Nov 1 2020

1.3.3

4.0

Version: 1.3.3

Certainly can't complain about the price. Sadly, there have been user interface issues that have plagued this software for years. Adding stuff to the queue is counter-intuitive and the encoding settings doesn't seem to hold between items in the queue. With not all that much effort this software could be really great - if I knew how to program I'd step up...

Rfleisch

Aug 10 2020

5.0

This App does it all when it come to video re-encoding. And It's FREE!

MyronV9060

Jun 16 2020

Excellent tool. Using it to convert old video files that no longer open under QuickTime to current standard format. Reduces file sizes as well without losing quality.

Ptrix

Jun 15 2020

This has been an absolutely indispensable app, but I do NOT understand why the "Target Size" option was removed in the past. I understand that it was not 100% accurate, but it was certainly very useful and "good enough" for downsizing large media files. I very strongly believe that it should be re-added, and if not into the application, than at least as some kind of optional add-on or extension. Because of this, I've not updated my copy from version 0.9.5 :(

l-studio

Excellent aplication

Derekcurrie

√ Mac Essential

GladysR7247

May 5 2020

1.3.2

Version: 1.3.2

Thanks for update

cmmce

Apr 24 2020

1.3.1

Version: 1.3.1

Thanks...great resource

asayoungspring

Apr 11 2020

Handbrake works very well where as I have Toast Titanium and that does not work any more. So Handbreak now holds top spot on my Mac