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 8.0 Download available from Microsoft:

• For x64 (AMD or Intel CPUs)
• For Arm64 (Qualcomm or other)

HandBrake 1.8.1

All platforms

Video

• Fixed a warning / misconfiguration when repeat-headers is used with the x265 encoder.(#6061)
• Fixed an issue where the NVEnc encoder ignored the level option

Subtitles

• Fixed an issue where dvd subtitles could be corrupted during rendering.

Filters

• Fixed an issue that caused video artefacts to occur when using the eedi2 filter (#6073)

Third-party libraries

• Updated libraries
  • FFmpeg 7.0.1 (decoding and filters)
  • libdav1d 1.4.3 (AV1 video decoding)

Mac

• Fixed a stall in the queue that could happen if the encoding process crashes when configuring a job
• Removed the "Show" button from the notifications when there is nothing to show

Windows

• Hardware decoding is now defaulted to off for new installations. Users can opt-in whilst making sure they are running up-to-date drivers
• Fixed an issue where hardware decoding could erroneously be used for previews
• Fixed an issue where auto name was triggering too aggressively (#6079)
• Removed an erroneous error message when dragging files onto the main window that include a subtitle file.(#6065)