HandBrake

1.1.1 • 19 Jun 2018

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

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Developer website: The HandBrake Team

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

Version 1.1.1:
General
  • Fixed a potential crash in the comb detection filter
  • Fixed a potential crash in the padding filter
  • Fixed corrupted output with VP8 and VP9 encoders
  • Fixed building x264 using Clang and -march=native/-mavx (thanks H. Gramner for the upstream patch)
Video
  • Fixed decoding certain very high bit rate ultra-high definition sources with extra large packets
  • Fixed last frame in source video missing in output
Audio
  • Fixed crash when decoding an empty audio track
Build system
  • Updated mac-toolchain-build script Nasm url and improved curl parameters for robustness
Third-party libraries
  • Updated libraries (necessary to pull in needed bug fixes)
  • libvpx 1.7.0 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
  • x264 155 r2901 (H.264/AVC video encoding)

Requirements

  • OS X 10.7 or later

Ratings

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Details

Downloads
1,421,625
Version Downloads
6,016
Type
Multimedia Design / Video
License
Free
Date
19 Jun 2018
Platform
Intel 64 / OS X
Price
Free