HandBrake 1.7.0

All platforms

General

• Added Apple VideoToolbox hardware presets
• Updated Creator presets
  • Disabled interlacing detection and removal; assume creators are working with progressive sources by default
• Updated Social presets
  • Target higher quality and frame rate over shorter durations, without interlacing detection and removal
  • Better suited for modern social sharing of short live action clips and screen/game captures
• Removed Email presets in favor of revised Social presets
  • Please stop sending videos via email or use the new Social presets
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Video

• Added AMD VCN AV1 encoder
• Added NVIDIA NVENC AV1 encoder
• Added support for SVT-AV1 multi-pass ABR mode
• Added support for preserving ambient viewing enviroment metadata
• Added QSV Rotate and Format filters
• Improved performance on arm64 / aarch64 / Apple Silicon architectures
  • Latest FFmpeg provides faster HEVC decoding, 30% faster bwdif filter
  • New SVT-AV1 assembly optimizations provide up to 4x increase in performance
• Improved video conversion speed by removing unneeded frame copies for better memory efficiency
• Improved Dolby Vision dynamic range metadata pass through
  • Supported encoders: x265 10-bit
  • Supported profiles and cross-compatibility IDs: 8.4, 8.1, 7.6 (base layer only, converted to 8.1), 5.0
• Improved HDR10+ dynamic range metadata pass through
  • Supported encoders: x265 10-bit, SVT-AV1
• Improved QSV support on Linux (#4958)
• Updated NVENC to not use multi-pass by default; user configurable advanced option
• Renamed 2-pass encode option to multi-pass (#5019)
• Fixed Intel QSV encoder outputting green video in some cases (#4842, #4876)
• Fixed pixel format conversion slightly altering colors when using a 10-bit hardware encoder (#5011)
• Fixed scan failures by using swscale instead of zscale when source resolution is not mod 2
• Fixed incorrect PAR when reading from an anamorphic AV1 video track
• Removed an artificial bitrate limit on VP9 CQ mode

Command line interface

• Renamed --two-pass to --multi-pass and --no-two-pass to --no-multi-pass, removed -2 (#5019)
• Fixed automatic cropping enabled despite using preset with cropping disabled (#5055)

Audio

• Fixed low volume level when downmixing ac3 and eac3
• Fixed left-only and right-only mono mixdowns (#3533, #5054)

Subtitles

• Fixed locale settings potentially causing incorrect decimal separator in SSA headers
• Fixed a potential issue affecting zero-duration subtitles

Build system

• Added Meson build system for the Linux GUI

Third-party libraries

• New libraries
  • libdovi 3.2.0 (Dolby Vision dynamic range metadata)
• Updated libraries
  • AMF 1.4.30 (AMD VCN video encoding)
  • FFmpeg 6.1 (decoding and filters)
  • FreeType 2.13.2 (subtitles)
  • Fribidi 1.0.13 (subtitles)
  • HarfBuzz 8.2.2 (subtitles)
  • libass 0.17.1 (subtitles)
  • libdav1d 1.3.0 (AV1 video decoding)
  • liblzma (xz) 5.4.5 (LZMA video decoding, e.g. TIFF)
  • libopus 1.4 (Opus audio encoding)
  • libjpeg-turbo 3.0.1 (preview image compression)
  • libvpx 1.13.1 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
  • libxml 2.11.5 (general)
  • oneVPL 2023.3.1 (Intel QSV video encoding/decoding)
  • SVT-AV1 1.7 (AV1 video encoding)
  • x264 164 r3107 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
  • x265 r12776 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
  • zimg 3.0.5 (color conversion)
  • zlib 1.3 (general)

Linux

• Added drag and drop support for video scanning
• Added support for native file choosers via xdg-desktop-portal
• Added Queue > Add All menu option
• Added XML chapter import and export
• Added bit depth and HDR information to video summary
• Added option to pause encoding when switching to battery power or when power save mode is activated
• Added automatic file naming options: {codec} {bit-depth} {width} {height} {modification-date} {modification-time}
• Updated Queue, Activity, and Presets windows to no longer float on top of the main window
• Updated existing translations
• Removed obsolete update checker
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Mac

• Added support for drag and drop of multiple files at once
• Added support for selecting multiple files at once in the Open Source dialog
• Added support for recursive folder scanning in the Open Source dialog
• Added support for VideoToolbox H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, ProRes, and VP9 hardware decoders on macOS 13 and later
  • Enable/disable in the Preferences > Advanced tab always or full path only
  • Using hardware decoders on modern devices may decrease CPU usage and thus speed up some filters and encoding
• Added GPU accelerated Crop & Scale, Rotate, Pad, Yadif, Bwdif, Chroma Smooth, Unsharp, Lasharp, Grayscale filters
• Added “Same as source” destination option that automatically sets the destination path to the source path
• Improved SVT-AV1 encoding performance by up to 4x on Apple Silicon Macs
• Improved automatic file naming Preferences UI and added new options: {width} {height} {quality_type} {encoder_bit_depth} {modification-time} {modification-date} {codec} {encoder} {encoder_bit_depth} {preset}
• Improved handling of security scoped bookmarks
• Fixed Chroma Smooth tune options
• Fixed Deblock Filter custom string field
• Fixed an issue that prevented the VideoToolbox “speed” preset from being used
• Fixed the file size display on the queue statistics window when file size info is not available
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
• Added new translations
  • Korean (한국어)
  • Bulgarian (Български)
• Updated existing translations

Windows

• Added support for drag and drop of multiple files at once
• Added support for selecting multiple files at once in the Open Source dialog
• Added support for recursive folder scanning in the Open Source dialog
  • Enable/disable in Preferences > Advanced
• Added support for excluding file extensions when opening files in batch mode
  • Default exclusions are common image, subtitles, and text file extensions; edit list in Preferences > Advanced
• Improved Preview window native video playback to support most containers and codecs
  • Modern codec support requires Microsoft Codec Packs from the Microsoft Store
• Improved automatic file naming Preferences UI and added new options: {width} {height} {quality_type} {encoder_bit_depth} {modification-time} {modification-date} {encoder} {encoder_bit_depth} {preset}
• Improved Queue window UI to optionally show additional status information on the left progress panel
• Improved Presets panel
  • Manage Presets button replaced with a menu of discrete options for quicker access to functionality
  • Added an option to display the description for the selected preset
  • Added the ability to clone a preset (create a new preset based on an existing one)
• Improved Add Selection window to make sorting feature more discoverable
• Improved Process Isolation reliability
• Fixed automatic file naming when using physical drive sources (#4859)
• Fixed Title Specific Scan for physical drive sources (#4921)
• Fixed an potential issue that could cause an unmodified preset to display as “modified” (#4909, #4908)
• Fixed an potential issue where changes to queue order were not retained (#4922)
• Fixed an Audio tab issue where using a non-fallback encoder could lead to duplicated tracks (#5012)
• Fixed an issue where swapping graphics cards might cause hardware presets to be incorrectly shown as disabled
• Fixed a potential crash on startup related to Windows Notifications Service failures (#5097)
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
• Added new translations
• Czech (česky) (partially complete)
• Greek (Ελληνικά) (partially complete)
• Estonian (Eesti) (partially complete)
• Basque (Euskara)
• Finnish (Suomi) (partially complete)
• Updated existing translations