HandBrake is an open-source video transcoder available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Everyone can use HandBrake to make videos for free.
HandBrake takes videos you already have and makes new ones that work on your mobile phone, tablet, TV media player, game console, computer, or web browser—nearly anything that supports modern video formats.
HandBrake works with most common video files and formats, including ones created by consumer and professional video cameras, mobile devices such as phones and tablets, game and computer screen recordings, and DVD and Blu-ray discs. HandBrake leverages tools such as FFmpeg libavcodec and libavformat libraries, x264, x265, and svt-av1 to create new MP4, MKV, or WebM video files from these
https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/introduction/about.htmlSources.
Version
1.9.0
Release Date
2024-12-01
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Official Download (Windows x64 Installer)
Alternative Download (Windows x64 Installer)
Official Download (Windows x64 64 bit)
.NET Desktop Runtime 8.0.11 – Windows x64 Installer english
Alternative Download (Windows x64 64 bit)
.NET Desktop Runtime 8.0.11 – Windows x64 Installer english
For additional platforms, please visit https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php.
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
All platforms
General
- Added Intel QSV VVC (hardware) video decoder
- Added an option to enable AV1 screen content coding(SCC) on Intel Lunar Lake QSV AV1 encoder
- Added support for lossless VP9 encoding
- Added a preference to keep duplicated Blu-ray titles
- Added support for Max Duration of Scan titles for disc based sources (#6304)
Audio
- Added ALAC encoder
- Added Vorbis passthru
- Improved scan of DTS audio profiles
Subtitles
- Improved quality of subtitles burn-in
- Fixed a rare video corruption issue that could happen when burning-in subtitles
Third-party libraries
- Updated libraries
- AMF 1.4.35 (AMD VCN video encoding)
- FFmpeg 7.1 (decoding and filters)
- FreeType 2.13.3 (subtitles)
- Fribidi 1.0.16 (subtitles)
- HarfBuzz 10.1.0 (subtitles)
- libdav1d 1.5.0 (AV1 video decoding)
- libdovi 3.3.1 (Dolby Vision dynamic metadata)
- libjpeg-turbo 3.0.4 (preview image compression)
- libvpx 1.15.0 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
- nv-codec-headers 12.2.72.0 (Nvidia NVENC encoding)
- oneVPL 2.13.0 (Intel QSV video encoding/decoding)
- SVT-AV1 2.3.0 (AV1 video encoding)
- x265 4.1 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
Linux
- Fixed the Power Save option to pause the encodes only when enabled
- Fixed the queue being stopped when removing completed items
- Fixed chapters names not being saved properly
- Fixed various issues related to presets
- Updated existing translations
Mac
- Add Range Limit controls to the “Add to Queue” selection window (#4146)
- Fixed an issue that could cause corrupted video when using VideoToolbox HEVC multi-pass
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
- Updated existing translations
- Added new translations
- Swedish (Svenska)
Windows
- Added Range Limit controls to the “Add to Queue” “Add Selection” window (#4146)
- Added support for DirectX based video decoding when using the Media Foundation encoder on ARM devices
- Added support for the AV1 Media Foundation encoder on ARM devices
- Added a “Start Later” option to the Queue Window.
- Performance Improvements in the filter pipeline for ARM devices.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
- Updated existing translations
- Added new translations
- Swedish (Svenska)