HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux.

Features:

  • Can encode directly from DVDs (even encrypted ones) or from VIDEO_TS folders
  • Supports AC3, LPCM and MPEG audio tracks
  • Outputs MP4, AVI or OGM files
  • Outputs AAC, MP3 or Vorbis audio
  • Supports 2*pass encoding
  • Supports encoding of two audio tracks
  • Includes a bitrate calculator
  • Supports picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling

What's New:

General

  • Fixed ISO 639-2/B language codes not set correctly in MKV (affects Hebrew, Indonesian, Javanese, and Yiddish) (#2903)
  • Improved support for sources where pixel format cannot be quickly identified, e.g. due to delayed video track start (#2893)
  • 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 (#2675)
  • Improved Intel QSV H.265 memory buffer size as required by newer Intel Media SDK (#2862)
  • Fixed and improved Intel QSV in various situations, especially hardware decoding (#873, #2660, #2661, #2829)
  • Fixed full range video being not being identified as limited range after conversion where filters are used (#2859)

Subtitles

  • Fixed handling of overlapping SSA import subtitles (791adba)
  • Improved support for out-of-order SSA subtitles as allowed by specification (#2906)

Command line interface

  • Fixed --preset failure unless full path is specified, e.g. --preset="Category Name/Preset Name" (#2838)

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)
  • Official HandBrake 1.3.3 Windows release is built using GCC 9.x and is not directly affected by this issue

Third-party libraries

  • Updated libraries
  • FFmpeg 4.2.3 (decoding and filters)

Mac

  • Fixed preview layout not displaying properly on OS X 10.11 El Capitan
  • Fixed incorrect copyright year on About dialog (#2830)

Windows

  • Fixed a crash related to the dark theme (#2816)
  • Fixed a potential crash related to preview image memory allocation (#2871)
  • Fixed a potential crash due to certain actions causing no preset being selected (#2875)
  • Fixed missing E-AC-3 encoder option (#2855)
  • Fixed hardware encoder support unavailable in portable build (#2832)
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements