After more than 13 years of development, the HandBrake Team is delighted to present HandBrake 1.0.0. Thank you to all of our many contributors over the years for making HandBrake what it is today.
HandBrake is an open source, free, portable and reliable software project that allows you to convert DVD-Video discs or any other video file from one format to another in an easy and straighforward way. It was originally built for the BeOS operating system, but now runs on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
Features at a glance
Key features include the ability to queue up multiple encoding jobs, support for VFR and CFR, support for chapter and title selection, live video preview, chapter markers, as well as support for average bitrate or constant quality video encoding.
Supports subtitles and video filters
In addition, HandBrake comes with support for various subtitle streams, including SSA, SRT, VobSub and Closed Captions CEA-608, as well as support for video filters, such as deinterlacing, cropping, decomb, scaling, detelecine, grayscale and deblock.
Supports a wide range of video file formats
The application has been designed with usability in mind, which means that it comes with support for a wide range of video file formats, including any DVD-like source (VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or VOB file), encrypted DVDs, MKV, MPG, MP4, MOV, AVI, OGG, FLV and WMV.
What's new in HandBrake 1.0.0
General:
New online documentation at https://handbrake.fr/docs
Completely overhauled the official presets
New general use presets for broad compatibility
New device presets, now more up-to-date for common devices
New web presets
New Matroska (MKV) presets, including VP9 video with Opus audio
Official presets from HandBrake 0.10.x are still available under "Legacy"
New JSON-based preset system including command line support
New JSON-based API for interacting with libhb
Improvements to audio/video sync engine to better handle difficult sources
Many miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements (over 1700 code commits!)
Video:
VP9 video encoding via libvpx
Intel QuickSync Video H.265/HEVC encoder
Requires Intel Skylake or newer CPU
Ultra HD / 4K color pass through (support for BT.2020)
Additional standard frame rate selections in the graphical interfaces
New Auto anamorphic mode maximizes storage resolution, replaces Strict anamorphic mode
New Pad filter (command line only for now)
New Decomb/Deinterlace filter settings and improved defaults
Rotate filter now available in all graphical interfaces
New NLMeans filter tunes Tape and Sprite for analog tape recordings and vintage video games, respectively
Assembly optimizations NLMeans filter improve performance up to 10%
Assembly optimizations in x264 encoder improve performance for faster presets by 5-10%
x265 encoder quality improvements, especially when using tune grain
High bit depth encoding support via external shared libraries (video pipeline is still 8-bit 4:2:0)
x264 10-bit
x265 10-bit and 12-bit
Audio:
Opus audio encoding/decoding via libopus
Passthru now supports E-AC-3, FLAC, and TrueHD audio formats
Subtitles:
Improved subtitles rendering for some languages via HarfBuzz
Miscellaneous subtitles improvements
Command line interface:
Presets can now be imported and exported from the command line and are compatible with the graphical interfaces
Queue exported from the graphical interfaces can now be imported by the command line interface (Linux and Windows only for now)
Build system:
Add scripts to manually build and install Mac and MinGW-w64 (compile for Windows on Linux) toolchains
Add support for multiple source URLs for third-party downloads
Add SHA256 hash verification for third-party downloads
Add configure parameter to disable or filter allowed third-party downloads (see configure --help)
Use HTTPS everywhere; the few cases where a third-party does not provide packages over https, handbrake.fr does
New targets on Mac to install and uninstall after building
Add flatpak packaging support (experimental)
Third-party libraries:
Updated libraries:
FreeType 2.6.5 (subtitles)
Fontconfig 2.12.1 (subtitles)
FriBidi 0.19.7 (subtitles)
Libav 12 (encoding/decoding/muxing)
libass 0.13.2 (subtitles)
libbluray 0.9.3 (Blu-ray decoding)
libmfx v6.0.0 (Intel QuickSync Video encoding/decoding)
libvpx 1.5.0 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
x264 148 r2708 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
x265 2.1 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
New libraries:
HarfBuzz 1.3.0 (subtitles)
libopus 1.1.3 (Opus audio encoding)
Linux:
Add options for saving and loading queue files
Removed system tray icon due to performance issues on Ubuntu
Usability improvements
Miscellaneous bug fixes
Mac:
Updated all tooltips
Added undo/redo support to the graphical interface
Improved drag and drop support
Added Open Recent to the File menu
Added Add Titles to Queue... to the File menu (batch queueing)
Preview prompts to open in an external application when the internal player does not support the format
Preview now displays volume and audio/subtitles language selection during playback
Picture and Filters settings are now part of the main window
Settings are preserved when selecting a new title (instead of reloading the last selected preset)
Improved support for importing/exporting comma-separated (.csv) chapter markers
Queue is now automatically paused when available disk space is low
When Done action can now be changed directly from the Queue window
When Done notification is now interactive (reveals the encoded file in Finder)
Activity Log window is now searchable (press "?"+"f" to activate)
XQuartz is no longer required for subtitle burn-in
Updated Sparkle software update library
Enabled DSA signature checking for improved security
Usability improvements
Miscellaneous bug fixes
Windows:
Graphical interface now uses libhb directly, instead of sending commands to the command line interface
Encoding can now be paused and resumed
Stopping encoding will finalize the partial file to be playable
Reduced installer and install size
The command line interface is no longer included in the graphical interface installer
Update checker now verifies the signature of the update file for improved security
Added support for quality-based audio encoding
Added ability to import tab-separated (.tsv), XML (.xml), and plain text (.txt) chapter markers
Improved the "configure default" options for audio and subtitles
Default audio track behavior is now configurable
Subtitles burn-in behavior is now configurable
Removed DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) hardware-accelerated video decoding
Was causing many issues without providing sufficient improvement to decoding efficiency
May be added again at a later date if performance and stability improves
Usability improvements
Miscellaneous bug fixes
Read more about the release announce
How to Install HandBrake 1.0.0 on Ubuntu Derivative System :
To Install/Update HandBrake 1.0.0 on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 18.1, Linux Mint 18 Sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
sudo apt-get update
After adding this PPA to your list of repositories (see "Adding this PPA to your system" below), you can install the HandBrake gtk gui with the command:
sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk
And you can install the HandBrake CLI with the command:
sudo apt-get install handbrake-cli
After installation s completed, search handbrake on dashboard, like this ;
to remove handbrade, do ;
sudo apt-get remove handbrake-gtk
sudo apt-get remove handbrake-cli
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.