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HandBrake

HandBrake 1.8.0

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  • Latest Version

    HandBrake 1.8.2

  • Operating System

    Windows 10 / Windows 11

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  • Author / Product

    Handbrake Team / External Link

  • Filename

    HandBrake-1.8.0-x86_64-Win_GUI.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

    420ad6cf4d29194fc9289f6eae295fe6

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What's new in this version:

All platforms:
General:
- Allowed muxing VP9 and FLAC in the MP4 container
- Removed timestamp jitters when using a constant NTSC frame rate in the MP4 container
- Removed support for importing legacy plist based presets from much older versions of HandBrake
- Updated iso639 language codes list

Video:
- Added support for the FFV1 encoder, including a new preset "Preservation FFV1" under the Professional category
- Added support for multi-pass CQ with VP9
- Added support for VP9 tunes
- Added Dolby Vision dynamic metadata pass through for SVT-AV1
- Improved Decomb speed by removing unneeded frame copies
- Improved Framerate Shaper metrics for high depth frames

Command line interface:
- Fixed subtitle "scan" when not first in --subtitle list
- Fixed override of subtitle settings
- Fixed processing audio overrides to preset

Audio:
- Added TrueHD encoder
- Added 88.2/96/176.4/192 kHz sample rates for TrueHD and FLAC encoders
- Improved audio tracks selection by tracking "linked" audio tracks
- Fixed incorrect channel layout when encoding a 6.1 track to Opus

Subtitles:
- Fixed passthru of VobSub tracks that contains empty of fully transparent subtitles samples
- Fixed an issue that prevented decoding VobSub tracks stored inside MP4
- Fixed burn-in of SSA/ASS subtitles inside MKV that have duplicated Read Orders
- Build system:
- Reviewed and improved compiler optimization options for the third-party libraries
- Improved libdovi package to make it possible to ship it in Flathub flatpak version

Third-party libraries:
Updated libraries:
- AMF 1.4.33 (AMD VCN video encoding)
- FFmpeg 7.0 (decoding and filters)
- HarfBuzz 8.4.0 (subtitles)
- libass 0.17.2 (subtitles)
- libdav1d 1.4.1 (AV1 video decoding)
- libdovi 3.3.0 (Dolby Vision dynamic metadata)
- libopus 1.5.2 (Opus audio encoding)
- libjpeg-turbo 3.0.3 (preview image compression)
- libvpx 1.14.0 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
- oneVPL 2.10.1 (Intel QSV video encoding/decoding)
- SVT-AV1 2.1.0 (AV1 video encoding)
- x264 164 r3186 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
- x265 3.6 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
- zlib 1.3.1 (general)
- Removed libraries
- libxml2

Windows:
- Requires Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime 8.0.x
- Added Invert Queue option to the Add to Queue Window
- Drag/Drop now supports resursive folder scan mode
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
- Updated existing translations
- Added new translations
- Catalan (Català)