Upgrade Notice

Before updating HandBrake, please make sure there are no pending encodes in the queue, and be sure to make a backup of any custom presets and app preferences you have, as they may not be compatible with newer versions.

Windows users, please make sure to install Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime version 6.0.x. Read carefully: you need the DESKTOP runtime. You must install .NET 6 even if you have installed .NET 7 or 8

HandBrake 1.7.3

All platforms

General

• Fixed formatting leading zeros for timestamps in logs
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Video

• Fixed an issue that could potentially cause incorrect detection of source FPS value (#5677)

Subtitles

• Fixed tx3g to SSA subtitles conversion

Linux

• Fixed the "All Files" open file dialog filter to really show all files
• Fixed an issue where adding a new default audio track automatically set the gain to -20 dB

Mac

• Fixed a regression introduced in HandBrake 1.7.2 by the workaround for VideoToolbox crashes on Sonoma
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Windows

• Improved security hardening of loading of DLL files within libhb by limiting search scope (#5724)
• Improved keyboard navigation on Chapters tab (#5679)
• Fixed an issue that could cause encodes to appear stalled when process isolation is turned on
• Fixed an issue that could prevent QSV decode from being used when a system also has a non-Intel GPU
• Fixed an issue where the drive label was not always correctly detected (#5711)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Upgrade Notice

Before updating HandBrake, please make sure there are no pending encodes in the queue, and be sure to make a backup of any custom presets and app preferences you have, as they may not be compatible with newer versions.

Windows users, please make sure to install Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime version 6.0.x. Read carefully: you need the DESKTOP runtime. You must install .NET 6 even if you have installed .NET 7.

HandBrake 1.7.2

All platforms

Video

• Improved automatic selection of Dolby Vision Level
• Fixed an issue in AMD VCN, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, NVIDIA NVENC, and VP9 encoders that could cause the creation of an excessive number of keyframes (#5530)
• Fixed unintentional automatic pass through of closed caption side data when using NVIDIA NVENC encoder
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Linux

• Improved performance by removing duplicate graphic assets and reducing file size
• Fixed Flatpak file chooser opening home directory instead of the previously selected directory
• Fixed last item in the queue sometimes having the wrong destination path
• Fixed some memory leaks in the graphical interface

Mac

• Added a workaround to prevent a system crash when using VideoToolbox encoders with macOS 14 Sonoma on Apple Silicon Ultra
• Added a workaround to prevent issues decoding H.264 video by disabling VideoToolbox hardware decoding for Level 6.1 and 6.2
• Fixed a crash opening an empty folder

Windows

• Added Automation Properties to some controls on the audio tab to assist screen readers
• Fixed NVIDIA NVDEC option being ignored (#5569)
• Fixed startup crash related to theme loading (#5567)
• Fixed subtitle language order not being honoured (#5590)

Upgrade Notice

Before updating HandBrake, please make sure there are no pending encodes in the queue, and be sure to make a backup of any custom presets and app preferences you have, as they may not be compatible with newer versions.

Windows users, please make sure to install Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime version 6.0.x. Read carefully: you need the DESKTOP runtime. You must install .NET 6 even if you have installed .NET 7.

HandBrake 1.7.1

All platforms

Video

• Fixed Decomb filter producing corrupted frames with 10-bit depth or higher source (#5518)
• Fixed a potential crash when using the Comb Detect filter on an RGB source
• Fixed Intel QSV devices enumeration where devices from other vendors are present (#5317, #5177)

Mac

• Fixed an issue opening EyeTV sources (#5514)

Upgrade Notice

Before updating HandBrake, please make sure there are no pending encodes in the queue, and be sure to make a backup of any custom presets and app preferences you have, as they may not be compatible with newer versions.

Windows users, please make sure to install Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime version 6.0.x. Read carefully: you need the DESKTOP runtime. You must install .NET 6 even if you have installed .NET 7.

HandBrake 1.7.0

All platforms

General

• Added Apple VideoToolbox hardware presets
• Updated Creator presets
  • Disabled interlacing detection and removal; assume creators are working with progressive sources by default
• Updated Social presets
  • Target higher quality and frame rate over shorter durations, without interlacing detection and removal
  • Better suited for modern social sharing of short live action clips and screen/game captures
• Removed Email presets in favor of revised Social presets
  • Please stop sending videos via email or use the new Social presets
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Video

• Added AMD VCN AV1 encoder
• Added NVIDIA NVENC AV1 encoder
• Added support for SVT-AV1 multi-pass ABR mode
• Added support for preserving ambient viewing enviroment metadata
• Added QSV Rotate and Format filters
• Improved performance on arm64 / aarch64 / Apple Silicon architectures
  • Latest FFmpeg provides faster HEVC decoding, 30% faster bwdif filter
  • New SVT-AV1 assembly optimizations provide up to 4x increase in performance
• Improved video conversion speed by removing unneeded frame copies for better memory efficiency
• Improved Dolby Vision dynamic range metadata pass through
  • Supported encoders: x265 10-bit
  • Supported profiles and cross-compatibility IDs: 8.4, 8.1, 7.6 (base layer only, converted to 8.1), 5.0
• Improved HDR10+ dynamic range metadata pass through
  • Supported encoders: x265 10-bit, SVT-AV1
• Improved QSV support on Linux (#4958)
• Updated NVENC to not use multi-pass by default; user configurable advanced option
• Renamed 2-pass encode option to multi-pass (#5019)
• Fixed Intel QSV encoder outputting green video in some cases (#4842, #4876)
• Fixed pixel format conversion slightly altering colors when using a 10-bit hardware encoder (#5011)
• Fixed scan failures by using swscale instead of zscale when source resolution is not mod 2
• Fixed incorrect PAR when reading from an anamorphic AV1 video track
• Removed an artificial bitrate limit on VP9 CQ mode

Command line interface

• Renamed --two-pass to --multi-pass and --no-two-pass to --no-multi-pass, removed -2 (#5019)
• Fixed automatic cropping enabled despite using preset with cropping disabled (#5055)

Audio

• Fixed low volume level when downmixing ac3 and eac3
• Fixed left-only and right-only mono mixdowns (#3533, #5054)

Subtitles

• Fixed locale settings potentially causing incorrect decimal separator in SSA headers
• Fixed a potential issue affecting zero-duration subtitles

Build system

• Added Meson build system for the Linux GUI

Third-party libraries

• New libraries
  • libdovi 3.2.0 (Dolby Vision dynamic range metadata)
• Updated libraries
  • AMF 1.4.30 (AMD VCN video encoding)
  • FFmpeg 6.1 (decoding and filters)
  • FreeType 2.13.2 (subtitles)
  • Fribidi 1.0.13 (subtitles)
  • HarfBuzz 8.2.2 (subtitles)
  • libass 0.17.1 (subtitles)
  • libdav1d 1.3.0 (AV1 video decoding)
  • liblzma (xz) 5.4.5 (LZMA video decoding, e.g. TIFF)
  • libopus 1.4 (Opus audio encoding)
  • libjpeg-turbo 3.0.1 (preview image compression)
  • libvpx 1.13.1 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
  • libxml 2.11.5 (general)
  • oneVPL 2023.3.1 (Intel QSV video encoding/decoding)
  • SVT-AV1 1.7 (AV1 video encoding)
  • x264 164 r3107 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
  • x265 r12776 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
  • zimg 3.0.5 (color conversion)
  • zlib 1.3 (general)

Linux

• Added drag and drop support for video scanning
• Added support for native file choosers via xdg-desktop-portal
• Added Queue > Add All menu option
• Added XML chapter import and export
• Added bit depth and HDR information to video summary
• Added option to pause encoding when switching to battery power or when power save mode is activated
• Added automatic file naming options: {codec} {bit-depth} {width} {height} {modification-date} {modification-time}
• Updated Queue, Activity, and Presets windows to no longer float on top of the main window
• Updated existing translations
• Removed obsolete update checker
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Mac

• Added support for drag and drop of multiple files at once
• Added support for selecting multiple files at once in the Open Source dialog
• Added support for recursive folder scanning in the Open Source dialog
• Added support for VideoToolbox H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, ProRes, and VP9 hardware decoders on macOS 13 and later
  • Enable/disable in the Preferences > Advanced tab always or full path only
  • Using hardware decoders on modern devices may decrease CPU usage and thus speed up some filters and encoding
• Added GPU accelerated Crop & Scale, Rotate, Pad, Yadif, Bwdif, Chroma Smooth, Unsharp, Lasharp, Grayscale filters
• Added "Same as source" destination option that automatically sets the destination path to the source path
• Improved SVT-AV1 encoding performance by up to 4x on Apple Silicon Macs
• Improved automatic file naming Preferences UI and added new options: {width} {height} {quality_type} {encoder_bit_depth} {modification-time} {modification-date} {codec} {encoder} {encoder_bit_depth} {preset}
• Improved handling of security scoped bookmarks
• Fixed Chroma Smooth tune options
• Fixed Deblock Filter custom string field
• Fixed an issue that prevented the VideoToolbox "speed" preset from being used
• Fixed the file size display on the queue statistics window when file size info is not available
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
• Added new translations
  • Korean (한국어)
  • Bulgarian (Български)
• Updated existing translations

Windows

• Added support for drag and drop of multiple files at once
• Added support for selecting multiple files at once in the Open Source dialog
• Added support for recursive folder scanning in the Open Source dialog
  • Enable/disable in Preferences > Advanced
• Added support for excluding file extensions when opening files in batch mode
  • Default exclusions are common image, subtitles, and text file extensions; edit list in Preferences > Advanced
• Improved Preview window native video playback to support most containers and codecs
  • Modern codec support requires Microsoft Codec Packs from the Microsoft Store
• Improved automatic file naming Preferences UI and added new options: {width} {height} {quality_type} {encoder_bit_depth} {modification-time} {modification-date} {encoder} {encoder_bit_depth} {preset}
• Improved Queue window UI to optionally show additional status information on the left progress panel
• Improved Presets panel
  • Manage Presets button replaced with a menu of discrete options for quicker access to functionality
  • Added an option to display the description for the selected preset
  • Added the ability to clone a preset (create a new preset based on an existing one)
• Improved Add Selection window to make sorting feature more discoverable
• Improved Process Isolation reliability
• Fixed automatic file naming when using physical drive sources (#4859)
• Fixed Title Specific Scan for physical drive sources (#4921)
• Fixed an potential issue that could cause an unmodified preset to display as "modified" (#4909, #4908)
• Fixed an potential issue where changes to queue order were not retained (#4922)
• Fixed an Audio tab issue where using a non-fallback encoder could lead to duplicated tracks (#5012)
• Fixed an issue where swapping graphics cards might cause hardware presets to be incorrectly shown as disabled
• Fixed a potential crash on startup related to Windows Notifications Service failures (#5097)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
• Added new translations
• Czech (česky) (partially complete)
• Greek (Ελληνικά) (partially complete)
• Estonian (Eesti) (partially complete)
• Basque (Euskara)
• Finnish (Suomi) (partially complete)
• Updated existing translations

Upgrade Notice

Before updating HandBrake, please make sure there are no pending encodes in the queue, and be sure to make a backup of any custom presets and app preferences you have, as they may not be compatible with newer versions.

Windows users, please make sure to install Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime version 6.0.x. Read carefully: you need the DESKTOP runtime. You must install .NET 6 even if you have installed .NET 7.

HandBrake 1.6.1

All platforms

Video

• Fixed a potential decoder issue that could cause desync with audio (#4788, #4789)

Command line interface

• Fixed inability to name external subtitles tracks using --subname

Mac

• Fixed behavior of quality slider when changing encoders

Linux

• Fixed translations missing updates as part of 1.6.0 (#4790)
  • Bulgarian (Български)
  • Corsican (Corsu)
  • Dutch (Nederlands)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • Spanish (Español)
• Fixed (partially) Intel QSV hardware detection (#4768)
• Fixed a potential crash when canceling an Intel QSV encode (#4341)
• Fixed building with -Werror=format-security by adding missing format strings where needed

Windows

• Fixed quality slider not allowing negative values for encoders supporting them
• Fixed issues upgrading presets from older versions (#4820)
• Fixed a potential graphical interface hang when stopping the queue (#4782)
• Fixed optical disc drives on the source selection pane not scanning correctly (#4771)
• Fixed erroneous display of 2-pass check box for Intel QSV AV1 encoder (not yet supported) (#4777)
• Fixed a build configuration issue that broke version 1.6.0 for Windows on arm64
• Fixed an issue that prevented NVDEC from being available
• Fixed passthru audio erroneously falling back to encoding (#4795)
• Fixed the Save New Preset button incorrectly overwriting recently added presets (#4804)

Upgrade Notice

Before updating HandBrake, please make sure there are no pending encodes in the queue, and be sure to make a backup of any custom presets and app preferences you have, as they may not be compatible with newer versions.

Windows users, please make sure to install Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime version 6.0.x. Read carefully: you need the DESKTOP runtime. You must install .NET 6 even if you have installed .NET 7.

HandBrake 1.6.0

All platforms

General

• Added AV1 video encoding
• Added high bit depth and color depth support to various encoders and filters
• Added 4K AV1 General, QSV (Hardware), and MKV (Matroska) presets
• Added 4K HEVC General presets and updated related presets to use similar encoder settings
• Revised Web presets and renamed to Creator, Email, and Social
• Removed VP8 presets
  • The VP8 video encoder is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release
  • Related, the Theora encoder is long deprecated and will be removed in a future release
• Miscellaneous other preset revisions

Video

• Added SVT-AV1 (software) and Intel QSV AV1 (hardware) video encoders
• Added VP9 10-bit encoder
• Added NVENC HEVC 10-bit encoder
• Added VCN HEVC 10-bit encoder
• Added H.264 levels 6, 6.1, and 6.2 for the x264 encoder
• Added H.264/H.265 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 profiles for the x264 and x265 encoders
• Added H.265 4:2:2 profile for VideoToolbox encoder on Apple Silicon
• Added support for Intel Deep Link Hyper Encode (leverage multiple QSV media engines to increase performance)
• Fixed longstanding issue where slowest NVENC encoder preset caused encoding failures
• Removed support for Intel CPUs older than 6th generation (Skylake) when using Intel Quick Sync Video

Filters

• Added Bwdif deinterlace filter
• Improved Autocrop filter algorithm
  • Higher accuracy on mixed aspect ratio content, e.g. both letterbox and full frame pictures
• Improved video scaling performance on Apple Silicon and ARM-based systems
  • Use zscale (zimg) by default, falling back to swscale where necessary
• Improved multithread performance (slightly) for the following filters on high core count systems
  • Comb Detect
  • Decomb
  • Denoise
    • NLMeans
• Updated the following filters to support higher than 8-bit content and 4:2:2/4:4:4 chroma subsampling
  • Detelecine
  • Comb Detect
  • Decomb
  • Grayscale
  • Denoise
    • NLMeans
    • HQDN3D
  • Chroma Smooth
  • Sharpen
    • UnSharp
    • LapSharp

Build system

• Added support for building for OpenBSD
• Added --cpu configure parameter to enable building for native CPU architecture
• Added --lto configure parameter to enable link time optimization
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Third-party libraries

• Updated libraries
  • AMF 1.4.24 (AMD VCN encoding)
  • FFmpeg 5.1.2 (decoding and filters)
  • FreeType 2.12.1 (subtitles)
  • Fribidi 1.0.12 (subtitles)
  • HarfBuzz 4.4.1 (subtitles)
  • libass 0.16.0 (subtitles)
  • libbluray 1.3.4 (Blu-ray decoding)
  • libdav1d 1.0.0 (AV1 decoding)
  • libdvdread 6.1.3 (DVD decoding)
  • liblzma (xz) 5.2.6 (LZMA video decoding, e.g. TIFF)
  • libjpeg-turbo 2.1.4 (preview image compression)
  • libspeex 1.2.1 (Speex audio decoding)
  • libvpx 1.12.0 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
  • libxml 2.10.3 (general)
  • oneVPL 2023.1.0 (Intel QSV encoding/decoding)
  • x264 164 r3100 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
  • x265 r12747 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
  • zimg 3.0.4 (color conversion)
• New libraries
  • SVT-AV1 1.4.1 (AV1 encoding)

Linux

• Added many quality of life improvements contributed by community members
• Improved parity with the Mac and Windows graphical interfaces
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
• Updated translations
• Added new translations
  • Bulgarian (Български)
  • Finnish (Suomi)
  • Georgian (ქართული)

Mac

• Added Quick Look support to the queue
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
• Updated translations
• Added Japanese translation

Windows

• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
• Updated all translations
• Added new translations
  • Bulgarian (Български)
  • Dutch (Nederlands)
  • Polish (Polski)

Upgrade Notice

Before updating HandBrake, please make sure there are no pending encodes in the queue, and be sure to make a backup of any custom presets and app preferences you have, as they may not be compatible with newer versions.

Windows users, please make sure to install Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime version 6.0.0 or later. Read carefully: you need the DESKTOP runtime.

HandBrake 1.5.1

This is a rebuild of HandBrake 1.5.0 with no functional changes.

Build system

• Fixed an issue with the source tarball that broke Flathub Builds.

Windows

• The Windows UI is now .NET 6.0 only. (.NET 5.0 is no longer additionally required)

HandBrake 1.5.0

All platforms

Video

• Fixed an issue on older Intel CPUs causing the CLI to fail to initialize (#3924)
• Updated video engine to preserve chroma sample location information
• Updated Intel Quick Sync to use the Intel oneAPI Video Processing Library (oneVPL)

Audio

• Fixed MP2 audio sources not utilizing the fallback encoder when pass through is disabled (#3863)
• Fixed FFmpeg AAC audio encoder quality mode scale range (#1295)

Subtitles

• Fixed an issue with captions pass through durations (#3764)

Build system

• Fixed multiple potential race conditions in Flatpak build process
• Updated mac-toolchain-build script with newer tool versions

Third-party libraries

• Updated libraries
  • FFmpeg 4.4.1 (decoding and filters)
  • FreeType 2.11.1 (subtitles)
  • Fribidi 1.0.11 (subtitles)
  • HarfBuzz 3.1.2 (subtitles)
  • Jansson 2.14 (JSON architecture)
  • libass 0.15.2 (subtitles)
  • libdav1d 0.9.2 (AV1 decoding)
  • libjpeg-turbo 2.1.2 (preview image compression)
  • libogg 1.3.5 (Xiph codecs support)
  • libvpx 1.11.0 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
  • zimg 3.0.3 (color conversion)

Linux

• Fixed a filter settings issue that resulted in incorrect filters being added to jobs (#3910)
• Updated Intel QSV Flatpak plugin to use Intel MediaSDK 21.3.5
• Updated Flatpak dependencies
  • Freedesktop Platform 21.08
  • GNOME 41
• Added Corsican (Corsu) translation
• Updated translations
  • Simplified Chinese (简体中文)
  • Dutch (Nederlands)
  • French (Français)
  • Korean (한국어)
  • Spanish (Español)
  • Swedish (Svenska)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Mac

• Requires macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later
• Fixed potential issues where encoding process could get stuck on efficiency cores in some cases
• Fixed an issue with automatic naming not applying correctly
• Fixed main window not being shown upon editing a job in the queue
• Updated queue statistics tab to include average encoding speed and percent of original file size
• Added "Move to top" and "Move to bottom" to the queue context menu
• Added a stop breakpoint to the queue, set when stop after job is selected and may be reordered (#2572)
• Added native support for the VideoToolbox API, enabling advanced features such as frame multi-pass, mastering display and content light metadata, and chroma location; the previous implementation via FFmpeg's libavcodec has been removed
• Added Corsican (Corsu) translation
• Updated translations
  • Simplified Chinese (简体中文)
  • French (Français)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • Italian (Italiano)
  • Portuguese (Português)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Windows

• Requires Windows 10 or later and Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime 6.0.0 or later
• Fixed a potential crash when encoding using Intel QSV in 2-pass mode (#4026)
• Fixed potential issues where encoding process could get stuck on efficiency cores in some cases
• Fixed an issue with static preview not updating when switching between automatic and custom cropping modes (#3911)
• Updated the toolbar preset dropdown to an overlay panel that utilizes a tree view which saves state
• Updated UI with various improvements to layout, typography, and cosmetics
• Updated queue statistics tab to include average encoding speed and content information
• Updated automatic naming file format placeholders to be live options
• Updated Send File To preference to set HB_SOURCE, HB_DESTINATION, and HB_EXIT_CODE environment variables, which can be used instead of arguments
• Added new exit_code parameter to Send File To preference
• Added "Move to top" and "Move to bottom" to the queue context menu
• Added a stop breakpoint to the queue, set when stop after job is selected and may be reordered (#2572)
• Added support for Windows 10/11 notifications, enable in Preferences > When Done
• Added support for Right to Left UI rendering for languages that require it. This can be set in preferences
• Added Traditional Chinese (正體中文) translation
• Updated translations
  • Simplified Chinese (简体中文) - includes fix for access keys in menus
  • Corsican (Corsu)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • Italian (Italiano)
  • Japanese (日本語)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Upgrade Notice

Before updating HandBrake, please make sure there are no pending encodes in the queue, and be sure to make a backup of any custom presets and app preferences you have, as they may not be compatible with newer versions.

Windows users, please make sure to install Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime version 6.0.0 or later. Read carefully: you need the DESKTOP runtime.
Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime version 5.0.0 or later is also required. (This dependency will be removed in HandBrake 1.5.1)

HandBrake 1.5.0

All platforms

Video

• Fixed an issue on older Intel CPUs causing the CLI to fail to initialize (#3924)
• Updated video engine to preserve chroma sample location information
• Updated Intel Quick Sync to use the Intel oneAPI Video Processing Library (oneVPL)

Audio

• Fixed MP2 audio sources not utilizing the fallback encoder when pass through is disabled (#3863)
• Fixed FFmpeg AAC audio encoder quality mode scale range (#1295)

Subtitles

• Fixed an issue with captions pass through durations (#3764)

Build system

• Fixed multiple potential race conditions in Flatpak build process
• Updated mac-toolchain-build script with newer tool versions

Third-party libraries

• Updated libraries
  • FFmpeg 4.4.1 (decoding and filters)
  • FreeType 2.11.1 (subtitles)
  • Fribidi 1.0.11 (subtitles)
  • HarfBuzz 3.1.2 (subtitles)
  • Jansson 2.14 (JSON architecture)
  • libass 0.15.2 (subtitles)
  • libdav1d 0.9.2 (AV1 decoding)
  • libjpeg-turbo 2.1.2 (preview image compression)
  • libogg 1.3.5 (Xiph codecs support)
  • libvpx 1.11.0 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
  • zimg 3.0.3 (color conversion)

Linux

• Fixed a filter settings issue that resulted in incorrect filters being added to jobs (#3910)
• Updated Intel QSV Flatpak plugin to use Intel MediaSDK 21.3.5
• Updated Flatpak dependencies
  • Freedesktop Platform 21.08
  • GNOME 41
• Added Corsican (Corsu) translation
• Updated translations
  • Simplified Chinese (简体中文)
  • Dutch (Nederlands)
  • French (Français)
  • Korean (한국어)
  • Spanish (Español)
  • Swedish (Svenska)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Mac

• Requires macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later
• Fixed potential issues where encoding process could get stuck on efficiency cores in some cases
• Fixed an issue with automatic naming not applying correctly
• Fixed main window not being shown upon editing a job in the queue
• Updated queue statistics tab to include average encoding speed and percent of original file size
• Added "Move to top" and "Move to bottom" to the queue context menu
• Added a stop breakpoint to the queue, set when stop after job is selected and may be reordered (#2572)
• Added native support for the VideoToolbox API, enabling advanced features such as frame multi-pass, mastering display and content light metadata, and chroma location; the previous implementation via FFmpeg's libavcodec has been removed
• Added Corsican (Corsu) translation
• Updated translations
  • Simplified Chinese (简体中文)
  • French (Français)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • Italian (Italiano)
  • Portuguese (Português)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Windows

• Requires Windows 10 or later and Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime 6.0.0 or later
• Fixed a potential crash when encoding using Intel QSV in 2-pass mode (#4026)
• Fixed potential issues where encoding process could get stuck on efficiency cores in some cases
• Fixed an issue with static preview not updating when switching between automatic and custom cropping modes (#3911)
• Updated the toolbar preset dropdown to an overlay panel that utilizes a tree view which saves state
• Updated UI with various improvements to layout, typography, and cosmetics
• Updated queue statistics tab to include average encoding speed and content information
• Updated automatic naming file format placeholders to be live options
• Updated Send File To preference to set HB_SOURCE, HB_DESTINATION, and HB_EXIT_CODE environment variables, which can be used instead of arguments
• Added new exit_code parameter to Send File To preference
• Added "Move to top" and "Move to bottom" to the queue context menu
• Added a stop breakpoint to the queue, set when stop after job is selected and may be reordered (#2572)
• Added support for Windows 10/11 notifications, enable in Preferences > When Done
• Added support for Right to Left UI rendering for languages that require it. This can be set in preferences
• Added Traditional Chinese (正體中文) translation
• Updated translations
  • Simplified Chinese (简体中文) - includes fix for access keys in menus
  • Corsican (Corsu)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • Italian (Italiano)
  • Japanese (日本語)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Upgrade Notice

Before updating, please make sure there are no pending encodes in the Queue.
Please also make a backup of any custom presets and app preferences you have as they may not be compatible with newer versions.

For Windows users:

• Please make sure you have Microsoft DESKTOP runtime 5.x installed.
• Users of 1.4.0 may have to run HandBrake as admin for the built-in update check to work correctly. This should not impact users of 1.4.1 or 1.3.x releases

HandBrake 1.4.2

All platforms

General

• Improvements and fixes around colour bit-depth handling.
• Fixed various issues where incorrect colour information could be written during muxing.

Hardware Encoding

• Fixed corrupted video output when decoding HDR10 content with QuickSync

Subtitles

• Fixed a slight subtitle colour shift issue when using libass

Mac

• Fixed a build system errors that could cause failures linking libbluray
• Fixed incorrect documentation URL
• Fixed a possible crash that can occur when applying a malformed preset.

Windows

• Added "Preset" used to the Queue summary tab.
• Added "Save New Preset" to the preset menu, and toolbar preset dropdown to make it easier to find. (#3783)
• Added category headers to the presets menu when using the flat display mode.
• Changed the log filename format back to start with the destination filename as it did with 1.3 (#3740)
• Changed tab selection behaviour on queue when changing jobs. it will no longer reset to the first tab. (#3813)
• Fixed a minor UI juddering effect on the queue task list when jobs start or finish (#3813)
• Fixed calculation errors when using padding on the dimensions tab (#3802)
• Fixed an issue where static preview wasn't live-updating when changes occurred (#3803)
• Fixed a crash on the Audio Defaults screen whilst trying to add Tracks (#3785)
• Fixed incorrect taskbar icon state when running multiple encodes (#3791)
• Fixed an issue where "None" resolution limit was not honoured (#3872)
• Fixed an issue with preset export. VideoTune was not written correctly (#3829)

Upgrade Notice

Before updating, please make sure there are no pending encodes in the Queue.
Please also make a backup of any custom presets and app preferences you have as they may not be compatible with newer versions.

For Windows users, please make sure you have Microsoft * DESKTOP * runtime 5.x installed.

HandBrake 1.4.1

All platforms

General

• Fixed a crash when using "Align AV" on Intel based systems. (#3683)
• Fixed a crash when reading certain DVD's with missing VOB files

Hardware Encoding

• Fixed an issue with QuickSync accelerated Crop/Scale generating incorrect aspect ratios (#3236)
• Fixed a crash after a subtitle scan when using the QuickSync encoder. (#3741)

Subtitles

• Backport some libass patches which should correct some issues with font and font-weight selections. (#3736)
• Fixed an issue that could prevent 3rd party software handling HandBrake files with dvb subtitles.

Command line interface

• Fixed a regression that prevented upscaling when using -w and -h (#3746)

Linux

• Added: flatpak permission to show bookmarks in file dialogs (#3748)

Mac

• Fix an issue where the Quality Slider was being ignored when using the VideoToolbox encoder. (#3751)
• Fixed an issue where incompatible hardware presets could be selected.

Windows

• Windows UI builds are now available for ARM64 devices. (Named arm64 or aarch64 in the download section)
• Added upgrade notices to the installer welcome page advising of .NET Desktop Runtime 5 requirements and to complete existing queue. (#3693)
• Added support for software rendering which can be enabled to workaround issues with Variable Refresh Rate and 3rd party software causing rendering corruption (#3755)
• Added a new preference to define how the preset toolbar button renders the preset list. (#3697)
• Fixed a crash which would prevent all user settings from loading in some circumstances.
• Fixed "Reset Settings" button in preferences. Certain settings were not reset correctly. (#3726)
• Fixed issues with the built-in updater that may cause it to fail to run the installer if the app was not running as admin.
• Fixed an issue that required and app restart to apply changes to the max simultaneous encodes setting.
• Fixed an issue with Audio Defaults fallback encoder quality/bitrate/mixdown settings would not display correct values (#3739)
• Fixed an with QSV multi-instance support where multiple Intel GPU's are used.