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Changelog

All platforms

General

    Added AV1 video encoding
    Added high bit depth and color depth support to various encoders and filters
    Added 4K AV1 General, QSV (Hardware), and MKV (Matroska) presets
    Added 4K HEVC General presets and updated related presets to use similar encoder settings
    Revised Web presets and renamed to Creator, Email, and Social
    Removed VP8 presets
        The VP8 video encoder is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release
        Related, the Theora encoder is long deprecated and will be removed in a future release
    Miscellaneous other preset revisions

Video

    Added SVT-AV1 (software) and Intel QSV AV1 (hardware) video encoders
    Added VP9 10-bit encoder
    Added NVENC HEVC 10-bit encoder
    Added VCN HEVC 10-bit encoder
    Added H.264 levels 6, 6.1, and 6.2 for the x264 encoder
    Added H.264/H.265 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 profiles for the x264 and x265 encoders
    Added H.265 4:2:2 profile for VideoToolbox encoder on Apple Silicon
    Added support for Intel Deep Link Hyper Encode (leverage multiple QSV media engines to increase performance)
    Fixed longstanding issue where slowest NVENC encoder preset caused encoding failures
    Removed support for Intel CPUs older than 6th generation (Skylake) when using Intel Quick Sync Video

Filters

    Added Bwdif deinterlace filter
    Improved Autocrop filter algorithm
        Higher accuracy on mixed aspect ratio content, e.g. both letterbox and full frame pictures
    Improved video scaling performance on Apple Silicon and ARM-based systems
        Use zscale (zimg) by default, falling back to swscale where necessary
    Improved multithread performance (slightly) for the following filters on high core count systems
        Comb Detect
        Decomb
        Denoise
            NLMeans
    Updated the following filters to support higher than 8-bit content and 4:2:2/4:4:4 chroma subsampling
        Detelecine
        Comb Detect
        Decomb
        Grayscale
        Denoise
            NLMeans
            HQDN3D
        Chroma Smooth
        Sharpen
            UnSharp
            LapSharp

Build system

    Added support for building for OpenBSD
    Added --cpu configure parameter to enable building for native CPU architecture
    Added --lto configure parameter to enable link time optimization
    Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Third-party libraries

    Updated libraries
        AMF 1.4.24 (AMD VCN encoding)
        FFmpeg 5.1.2 (decoding and filters)
        FreeType 2.12.1 (subtitles)
        Fribidi 1.0.12 (subtitles)
        HarfBuzz 4.4.1 (subtitles)
        libass 0.16.0 (subtitles)
        libbluray 1.3.4 (Blu-ray decoding)
        libdav1d 1.0.0 (AV1 decoding)
        libdvdread 6.1.3 (DVD decoding)
        liblzma (xz) 5.2.6 (LZMA video decoding, e.g. TIFF)
        libjpeg-turbo 2.1.4 (preview image compression)
        libspeex 1.2.1 (Speex audio decoding)
        libvpx 1.12.0 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
        libxml 2.10.3 (general)
        oneVPL 2023.1.0 (Intel QSV encoding/decoding)
        x264 164 r3100 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
        x265 r12747 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
        zimg 3.0.4 (color conversion)
    New libraries
        SVT-AV1 1.4.1 (AV1 encoding)

Linux

    Added many quality of life improvements contributed by community members
    Improved parity with the Mac and Windows graphical interfaces
    Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
    Updated translations
    Added new translations
        Bulgarian
        Finnish (Finland)
        Georgian

Mac

    Added Quick Look support to the queue
    Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
    Updated translations
    Added Japanese translation

Windows

    Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
    Updated all translations
    Added new translations
        Bulgarian
        Dutch (Dutch)
        Polish

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Changelog

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
        Corsican
        Dutch (Dutch)
        German German)
        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 )

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Changelog

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)
        opus 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
        Bulgarian
    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 (partially complete)
    Greek (partially complete)
    Estonian (Eesti) (partially complete)
    Basque (Basque)
    Finnish (Partially complete)
    Updated existing translations

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    Video:

    Fixed Decomb filter producing corrupted frames with 10-bit depth or higher source (#5518)
    Fixed a potential crash when using the Comb Detect filter on an RGB source
    Fixed Intel QSV devices enumeration where devices from other vendors are present (#5317, #5177)

    Mac:

    Fixed an issue opening EyeTV sources (#5514)

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Changelog

All platforms

General

    Allowed muxing VP9 and FLAC in the MP4 container
    Removed timestamp jitters when using a constant NTSC frame rate in the MP4 container
    Removed support for importing legacy plist based presets from much older versions of HandBrake
    Updated iso639 language codes list

Video

    Added support for the FFV1 encoder, including a new preset "Preservation FFV1" under the Professional category
    Added support for multi-pass CQ with VP9
    Added support for VP9 tunes
    Added Dolby Vision dynamic metadata pass through for SVT-AV1
    Improved Decomb speed by removing unneeded frame copies
    Improved Framerate Shaper metrics for high depth frames

Command line interface

    Fixed subtitle "scan" when not first in --subtitle list
    Fixed override of subtitle settings
    Fixed processing audio overrides to preset

Audio

    Added TrueHD encoder
    Added 88.2/96/176.4/192 kHz sample rates for TrueHD and FLAC encoders
    Improved audio tracks selection by tracking "linked" audio tracks
    Fixed incorrect channel layout when encoding a 6.1 track to Opus

Subtitles

    Fixed passthru of VobSub tracks that contains empty of fully transparent subtitles samples
    Fixed an issue that prevented decoding VobSub tracks stored inside MP4
    Fixed burn-in of SSA/ASS subtitles inside MKV that have duplicated Read Orders

Build system

    Reviewed and improved compiler optimization options for the third-party libraries
    Improved libdovi package to make it possible to ship it in Flathub flatpak version

Third-party libraries

    Updated libraries
        AMF 1.4.33 (AMD VCN video encoding)
        FFmpeg 7.0 (decoding and filters)
        HarfBuzz 8.4.0 (subtitles)
        libass 0.17.2 (subtitles)
        libdav1d 1.4.1 (AV1 video decoding)
        libdovi 3.3.0 (Dolby Vision dynamic metadata)
        opus 1.5.2 (Opus audio encoding)
        libjpeg-turbo 3.0.3 (preview image compression)
        libvpx 1.14.0 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
        oneVPL 2.10.1 (Intel QSV video encoding/decoding)
        SVT-AV1 2.1.0 (AV1 video encoding)
        x264 164 r3186 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
        x265 3.6 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
        zlib 1.3.1 (general)
    Removed libraries
        libxml2

Linux

    Migrated the UI to GTK 4
    Added support for resursive file scan
    Added support for drag/drop/multi-file scanning. (Including subtitle files)
    Added --clear-queue and --auto-start-queue flags to the linux ui app.
    Update the "Open Source" button to make the folder/batch mode more discoverable.
    Refreshed app icons
    Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
    Updated existing translations

Mac

    Added Dolby Vision and HDR10+ dynamic metadata pass through for VideoToolbox H.265 10-bit
    Added Metal accelerated Comb Detect and Framerate Shaper filters
    Added ability to drag and drop SRT and ASS subtitles files onto the main window
    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
    Added new preference to pause encodes when switching to battery
    Added new preference to clear completed jobs at launch option
    Reworked notification options to allow per encode or per queue control
    Reworked toolbar to follow macOS UI style
    Improved performance of the Activity Log window
    Improved UI performances by avoiding uneeded window resizes and slow AppKit controls
    Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
    Updated existing translations
    Added new translations
        Ukrainian

Windows

    Requires Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime 8.0.x
    Added Invert Queue option to the Add to Queue Window ( #5741 )
    Drag/Drop now supports resursive folder scan mode.
    Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
    Updated existing translations
    Added new translations
        Catalan (Catalan)

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