Upgrade Notice

Before updating, please make sure there are no pending encodes in the Queue. Please also make a backup of any custom presets and app preferences you have as they may not be compatible with newer versions.

For Windows users, please make sure you have Microsoft * DESKTOP * runtime 5.x installed.

HandBrake 1.4.1

All platforms

General

• Fixed a crash when using "Align AV" on Intel based systems. (#3683)
• Fixed a crash when reading certain DVD's with missing VOB files

Hardware Encoding

• Fixed an issue with QuickSync accelerated Crop/Scale generating incorrect aspect ratios (#3236)
• Fixed a crash after a subtitle scan when using the QuickSync encoder. (#3741)

Subtitles

• Backport some libass patches which should correct some issues with font and font-weight selections. (#3736)
• Fixed an issue that could prevent 3rd party software handling HandBrake files with dvb subtitles.

Command line interface

• Fixed a regression that prevented upscaling when using -w and -h (#3746)

Linux

• Added: flatpak permission to show bookmarks in file dialogs (#3748)

Mac

• Fix an issue where the Quality Slider was being ignored when using the VideoToolbox encoder. (#3751)
• Fixed an issue where incompatible hardware presets could be selected.

Windows

• Windows UI builds are now available for ARM64 devices. (Named arm64 or aarch64 in the download section)
• Added upgrade notices to the installer welcome page advising of .NET Desktop Runtime 5 requirements and to complete existing queue. (#3693)
• Added support for software rendering which can be enabled to workaround issues with Variable Refresh Rate and 3rd party software causing rendering corruption (#3755)
• Added a new preference to define how the preset toolbar button renders the preset list. (#3697)
• Fixed a crash which would prevent all user settings from loading in some circumstances.
• Fixed "Reset Settings" button in preferences. Certain settings were not reset correctly. (#3726)
• Fixed issues with the built-in updater that may cause it to fail to run the installer if the app was not running as admin.
• Fixed an issue that required and app restart to apply changes to the max simultaneous encodes setting.
• Fixed an issue with Audio Defaults fallback encoder quality/bitrate/mixdown settings would not display correct values (#3739)
• Fixed an with QSV multi-instance support where multiple Intel GPU's are used.