HandBrake 1.2.1

All platforms

General

• Fixed potential crashes due to use of uninitialized variables
• Improved minimum duration to only apply to DVD and BD sources
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Video

• Fixed incorrect video rotation where rotation is explicitly flagged as none
• Fixed yadif deinterlace filter not properly deinterlacing all frames
• Fixed missing frame at the end of encodes from m2ts sources
• Fixed detection of MPEG-1 video in program streams by improving probing of unknown streams
• Fixed decoding of MPEG-1 video in DVD sources
• Fixed Apple VideoToolbox encoding issues related to pyramidal B-frames
• Fixed lapsharp filter corrupting frame edges
• Improved NLMeans performance by reducing number of threads used with CPUs with high logical core counts
• Improved AMD VCE encoding to enable placing key frames at chapter markers
• Improved calculation of final frame duration
• Improved support for BT.2020 color space

Audio

• Fixed channel mapping for AAC 5.1 encoding (signal 5.1 Back instead of 5.1 Side which is less compatible)

Command line interface

• Fixed selection of encoders applied to tracks selected with --all-audio
• Fixed audio settings where more are specified than exist in the preset
• Fixed overriding audio bit rate set by the preset

Build system

• Fixed libvpx cross compilation with GCC 8 by disabling AVX-512
• Fixed x265 cross compilation with GCC 8
• Updated to mingw-w64-build 4.1.1 with improvements to error reporting and support for sha256sum on systems without shasum
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Third-party libraries

• Updated libraries
  • libmfx (upstream API 1.27)

Linux

• Fixed Flatpak icon validation by reducing resolution to pass new restrictions
• Fixed Flatpak accessing gvfs mounted filesystems by adding an additional access permission
• Fixed display of special characters in preset names
• Fixed exporting presets to sanitize system reserved characters
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Mac

• Fixed incorrect file extension when selecting a preset
• Fixed potential user interface hang on macOS 10.12 Sierra
• Fixed potential issue caused by setting work state to done before all threads have closed
• Improved usability of preview controls overlay by increasing its size
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Windows

• Fixed application uninstaller sometimes appearing behind the installer
• Fixed potential crash when loading settings from older HandBrake versions
• Fixed official presets not updating when a newer HandBrake version is installed
• Fixed maximum resolution limit when selecting a preset (source or preset, whichever is smaller)
• Fixed crop and anamorphic settings not being restored when editing a queued job
• Fixed audio and subtitle selection behaviour where any language + first track are selected
• Restored options control on the queue window previously removed in HandBrake 1.2.0
• Improved user interface on displays close to the minimum recommended resolution
• Improved quality of text rendering on the installer for high density displays
• Improved ordering of presets and preset categories
• Improved QSV compatibility with newer Intel drivers by updating libmfx
• Improved removal of small temporary files that could be left behind in certain cases
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements