HandBrake 1.2.0

All platforms

General

• Switched core decoding library from Libav to FFmpeg
  • Fixes numerous sources previously unreadable or otherwise broken
  • Facilitates a number of the improvements and features in this release and planned for the future
• Removed deprecated Legacy presets
  • See the list of compatible replacements on GitHub
• Updated official presets to use stereo instead of DPL2 mixdown
  • Avoids potential spatial positioning issues with the current DPL2 algorithm and wide pans in source material
  • Limited in impact since DPL2 decoding has not been in widespread use for years
• Updated official presets descriptions to revise compatibility and mention recently released devices
• Updated official presets to rename Fire TV to Amazon Fire
• Added Amazon Fire 720p30 and Chromecast 1080p60 presets
• Added {creation-date} and {creation-time} to automatic file naming

Video

• Fixed an issue decoding Blu-ray titles where the aspect ratio is unknown (assume 16:9)
• Fixed an issue encoding video with very short frame durations (less than 0.00285s or greater than 350 FPS)
• Improved extradata handling to accommodate all codecs
• Added support for decoding TIFF/LZMA video

Audio

• Fixed potential decoding issue for audio lacking an explicit channel layout (intelligently guess the layout)
• Fixed a potential crash during audio probe
• Improved resampling to allow dithering for all codecs (only where necessary)
• Improved quality of the default AAC encoder on non-Mac platforms (FFmpeg AAC), no longer experimental
• Improved bit rate constraints to allow Opus as low as 6 kbit/s per channel
• Added support for up to 7.1 channel AAC encoding (note that FDK AAC/HE-AAC do not support 6.1)
• Added support for E-AC3 audio in MP4 container
• Added Speex audio decoder

Subtitles

• Fixed a potential crash where an SRT file cannot be opened
• Added support for SRT files using periods instead of commas to delineate fractions

Command line interface

• Fixed inability to override preset subtitles burn setting (native and none are now valid values for --subtitle-burned)

Build system

• Fixed Linux packaging with an out-of-tree build directory
• Fixed Windows graphical interface build script signing tool location
• Removed --enable-local-* and associated contrib libraries; please see the documentation for dependencies help
• Updated to mingw-w64-build 4.1.0 with gcc 7.3.0, continuous output (keep alive), and miscellaneous improvements
• Improved support for building with Xcode 10
• Improved support for building on FreeBSD 11, 12, and 13
• Improved Flatpak packaging for Linux (numerous fixes and improvements, no longer experimental)
• Improved configure.py to always use the Python executable found by configure
• Added script for creating Flatpak manifests
• Added support for selecting a compiler via the CC environment variable
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Third-party libraries

• Removed libraries
  • Libav 12.3 (decoding and filters)
  • yasm 1.3.0
• Updated libraries
  • libopus 1.3 (Opus audio encoding)
  • x264 157 r2935 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
  • x265 2.9 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
• New libraries
  • FFmpeg 4.1 (decoding and filters)
  • liblzma (xz) 5.2.4 (LZMA video decoding, e.g. TIFF)
  • libspeex 1.2.0 (Speex audio decoding)

Linux

• Fixed Blu-ray title name being set to device name (e.g. sr0) when scanning raw devices
• Fixed Blu-ray default destination file names to no longer include MPLS number
• Fixed an issue with queue state not being updated properly on reload
• Fixed various issues importing presets
• Updated most translations
• Added initial support for GTK 4
• Added ability to customize activity window font size and increased default from 7 to 8
• Added destination overwrite protection (append number to file name on conflict)
• Added {source-path} to automatic path setting
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Mac

• HandBrake now requires OS X 10.10 Yosemite or later
• Removed preferences option to show the advanced tab (deprecated and slated for removal)
• Fixed minor display issues on macOS 10.14 Mojave
• Fixed queue toolbar icon not updating
• Removed Growl in favor of native system notifications
• Updated Sparkle automatic update library
• Improved handling of invalid presets
• Improved layout to better support localization
• Improved preview border alignment on high density displays
• Improved automatic naming to avoid updating when unrelated settings change
• Improved criteria for showing destination overwrite warnings
• Improved stop encoding confirmation dialog
• Improved notifications to no longer play sounds when alerts are disabled
• Added initial localization support and German translation
• Added initial support for VideoToolbox (hardware-accelerated) encoding
• Added support for Dark Mode in macOS 10.14 Mojave (new Dark Mode toolbar icons require building with Xcode 10 on Mojave)
• Added Touch Bar support to various windows and dialogs
• Added Finder progress bar to files currently encoding
• Added Show Source in Finder to queue contextual menu (renamed Show in Finder to Show Destination in Finder)
• Added validation for custom filter parameters
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Windows

• HandBrake now requires .NET Framework 4.7.1 or later (installer offers download if missing)
• Fixed mixdown selection where the specified mixdown in the selected preset is not available
• Fixed audio sample rate of 48 kHz being selected where Auto was the specified behavior
• Removed preferences option to show the advanced tab (deprecated and slated for removal)
• Removed options menu from queue in favor of contextual menu
• Improved layout to better support localization
• Improved error handling when adding items to the queue
• Improved multi-instance queue recovery to avoid loading queue files from the wrong instance
• Improved filters layout and controls
• Improved video quality slider by allowing it to grow with window size and setting x264/x265 granularity to 0.5
• Improved SRT import default browse location (open source video location)
• Improved keyboard shortcuts by making Ctrl-S open the destination save dialog (start encode is now Ctrl-E)
• Added additional keyboard shortcuts for various actions
• Added initial localization support and German translation
• Added support for AMD VCE and Nvidia NVENC hardware-accelerated encoders
• Added automatic queue archiving and option to select an archived queue for recovery (archives are removed after 7 days)
• Added support for recovering specific queue files on start using --recover-queue-ids=<id1,id2,...>
• Added additional controls to passthru audio tracks to configure audio fallback parameters
• Added ability to drag and drop SRT subtitles files onto the main window
• Added option to disable preview image on summary tab
• Added option to disable checking for update on start in portable mode
• Added stop encoding confirmation dialog
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements