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 6.0.x. Read carefully: you need the DESKTOP runtime. You must install .NET 6 even if you have installed .NET 7.

HandBrake 1.6.1

All platforms

Video

• Fixed a potential decoder issue that could cause desync with audio (#4788, #4789)

Command line interface

• Fixed inability to name external subtitles tracks using --subname

Mac

• Fixed behavior of quality slider when changing encoders

Linux

• Fixed translations missing updates as part of 1.6.0 (#4790)
  • Bulgarian (Български)
  • Corsican (Corsu)
  • Dutch (Nederlands)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • Spanish (Español)
• Fixed (partially) Intel QSV hardware detection (#4768)
• Fixed a potential crash when canceling an Intel QSV encode (#4341)
• Fixed building with -Werror=format-security by adding missing format strings where needed

Windows

• Fixed quality slider not allowing negative values for encoders supporting them
• Fixed issues upgrading presets from older versions (#4820)
• Fixed a potential graphical interface hang when stopping the queue (#4782)
• Fixed optical disc drives on the source selection pane not scanning correctly (#4771)
• Fixed erroneous display of 2-pass check box for Intel QSV AV1 encoder (not yet supported) (#4777)
• Fixed a build configuration issue that broke version 1.6.0 for Windows on arm64
• Fixed an issue that prevented NVDEC from being available
• Fixed passthru audio erroneously falling back to encoding (#4795)
• Fixed the Save New Preset button incorrectly overwriting recently added presets (#4804)