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We are now moving into the final push to fix as many issues as possible before the 0.10 release. We think the app is getting close, so please give it a shot and let us know if you discover any issues. Barring any serious issues, this will be our final RC before 0.10 final. You can see all the changes for the upcoming 0.10 Final on our roadmap.

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Changelog

Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.10

  Core
    - Intel QuickSync Video Encode / Decode support. (Beta)
        Windows only currently. We hope to bring this to Linux user in the future.
    - DXVA Hardware Decode support (Experimental)
        Windows Only.
        Suitable only for slower machines so disabled in preferences by default.
    - Choice of Scalers
        Lanczos
            HandBrakes? default scaler.
        Bicubic (OpenCL) (Experimental)
            Available on the Command Line (All Platforms) and Windows GUI. (Mac / Linux GUI's will come in a later release)
            Currently only available in OpenCL form so requires a AMD or Intel GPU supporting OpenCL 1.1 or later. Nvidia GPU's are not currently supported.
            When downscaling, up to 5% performance improvement can be achieved. No benefit when not downscaling.
            Small loss in quality over the Lanczos scaler.
    -   Denoise
        hqdn3d filter now accepts individual settings for both chroma channels (Cr, Cb)
        New NlMeans? denoiser. This is very slow, but results are significantly better than hqdn3d.
    - Presets
        Added Windows Phone 8 Preset
    - Updated Libraries
        x264 r2479-dd79a61
        Libav v10.1
        libbluray 0.5.0
    - Libavformat is now used for muxing instead of mp4v2 and libmkv
        "Large File Size" checkbox has now bee removed for mp4, as the new muxer will transition to 64bit files automatically.
        mpeg2dec has also been replaced in favour of using libav
    - The LibAV AAC encoder is now the default as FAAC has been removed.
        This encoder is adequate for most, but until it improves a bit further, we have enabled support for the FDK-AAC encoder also.
            This FDK option is a temporary measure until the LibAV encoder improves.
            Note that FDK-AAC is much slower and will likely bottleneck the encode process, but will produce better quality audio.
    - H.265 encoder
        Using x265 v1.4
        This encoder is still early in it's development, so is missing many H.265 features and optimisations.
    - Added VP8 Encoder (using libvpx)
        Available in MKV files only.
    - Removed mcdeint deinterlace and decomb modes. This relied on the snow encoder in libav which has been was removed by upstream.
    - Bug fixes and Misc Improvements

  Windows
    - Accessibility / Usability Improvements
        Added option to 'Use System Colors'. The app should now be usable in a High Contrast mode.
        Fixed Tab ordering to make the app more keyboard friendly.
    - LibHB is now used for scanning instead of the CLI.
        Experiential Preview window is now available as a result. (Can be enabled via preferences)
    - Improved the layout and design of the Audio and Subtitle tabs.
        Split buttons similar to the old 0.9.8 WinForms? GUI
        Improved layout on the track listbox to make better use of the space.
    - Improvements to Auto-Naming feature.
    - When Done
        Added an option that will reset this to 'Do nothing' when the app is closed and restarted.
    - Presets
        New 'Presets' Menu
        Presets bar can now be hidden if it's not wanted.
    - Numerous bug fixes
        Fixed the Issue in the source dropdown where the drive menu items did not work when clicked.
        Numerous fixes in the Picture settings panel around resolution calculation.
        Numerous fixes around the way Presets are loaded and saved, particularly around Picture settings.
        Removed Growl for Windows support due to bugs and issues with this library that remain unfixed. Project appears abandoned.
        Many misc other fixes.
    - Windows XP is no longer supported. Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 or later is now a requirement.
    - The 32bit build of the application is now considered deprecated. This is due to 32bit process memory limitations.

  Mac
    - Build system updates to compiled under OS X 10.9 / 10.10
    - Automatic audio and subtitle track selection behaviours which can be stored per preset.
    - Improvements to Auto-Naming feature.
    - Misc UI enhancements.
    - Bug fixes and Misc Improvements
   
  Linux
    - Automatic audio and subtitle track selection behaviours which can be stored per preset.
    - Improvements to Auto-Naming feature.
    - Batch Add to queue by list selection.
    - Russian and Czech Translations
    - Bug fixes and Misc Improvements
    - Requires GTK3

  Command Line Interface
    - Basic support for return codes from the CLI. (0 = No Error, 1 = Cancelled, 2 = Invalid Input, 3 = Initialization error, 4 = Unknown Error")
    - Bug fixes and Misc Improvements

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THandBrake is a simple application that you can use to batch encode videos using the Handbrake encoder engine. The software provides support for the common video formats and high conversion speed. Deinterlacing, denoising, deblocking and grayscale options are available.

License : GPL

Whats new:>>

-Added: Users can now drag and drop folders
-Added: Option to specify default audio language selection (en,eng,english etc)
-Updated: HandBrake to 0.10

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0.10.1 beta 1 contains a number of bug fixes for common problems that have been raised since the 0.10.0 release.
The full list is available here.

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Changelog

+ New HandBrake CLI v6960
 + New YouTube-dl 2015.03.02
 + MediaInfo DLL v0.7.72
 + SystemInfo 5.0.2
 + Redesigned user interface
 + Better processor identifier
 + Added Hardware Acceleration support (DXVA, OpenCL, IntelQSV)
 + Added Secondary Audio language
 + Add output box to the video settings (it was not clear the icon to many people)
 + Support 394+ online video site
 + Support 16+ online audio site
 + Listed more parameters in the MediaInfo
 + Updated japanese language file
 + Added persian language file
 + Add abort possibility to the online downloads
 - Remove update section
 x Fixed online download path
 x Fixed subtitles error
 x Fixed online download error on some sites
 x Fixed massive slowdown because the Intel QSV is enabled by default and we used the OpenCL or DXVA at the same time.

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Release Highlights

- Various bug fixes for all platforms and the core engine.
- Updated x265 to 1.5 which brings numerous bug fixes and some performance improvements.

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Whats new:>>

- Assorted bug fixes and performance improvements.

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Whats new:>>

- Various bug fixes for all platforms and the core engine.
- Updated x265 to 1.8 which brings numerous bug fixes and some performance improvements.

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Whats new:>>

- Removal of FDK AAC from our binary releases. --enable-fdk is required for "non-free" builds if compiling from source.
- Updated x265 to 1.9 which brings bug fixes and performance improvements.
- Few minor bug fixes since the 0.10.3 release. This includes improvements in large AVI file handling.

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Changelog

General:

New online documentation at https://handbrake.fr/docs
Completely overhauled the official presets
New general use presets for broad compatibility
New device presets, now more up-to-date for common devices
New web presets
New Matroska (MKV) presets, including VP9 video with Opus audio
Official presets from HandBrake 0.10.x are still available under "Legacy"
New JSON-based preset system including command line support
New JSON-based API for interacting with libhb
Improvements to audio/video sync engine to better handle difficult sources
Many miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements (over 1700 code commits!)

Video:

VP9 video encoding via libvpx
Intel QuickSync Video H.265/HEVC encoder
Requires Intel Skylake or newer CPU
Ultra HD / 4K color pass through (support for BT.2020)
Additional standard frame rate selections in the graphical interfaces
New Auto anamorphic mode maximizes storage resolution, replaces Strict anamorphic mode
New Pad filter (command line only for now)
New Decomb/Deinterlace filter settings and improved defaults
Rotate filter now available in all graphical interfaces
New NLMeans filter tunes Tape and Sprite for analog tape recordings and vintage video games, respectively
Assembly optimizations NLMeans filter improve performance up to 10%
Assembly optimizations in x264 encoder improve performance for faster presets by 5-10%
x265 encoder quality improvements, especially when using tune grain
High bit depth encoding support via external shared libraries (video pipeline is still 8-bit 4:2:0)
x264 10-bit
x265 10-bit and 12-bit

Audio:

Opus audio encoding/decoding via libopus
Passthru now supports E-AC-3, FLAC, and TrueHD audio formats

Subtitles:

Improved subtitles rendering for some languages via HarfBuzz
Miscellaneous subtitles improvements

Command line interface:

Presets can now be imported and exported from the command line and are compatible with the graphical interfaces
Queue exported from the graphical interfaces can now be imported by the command line interface (Linux and Windows only for now)

Build system:

Add scripts to manually build and install Mac and MinGW-w64 (compile for Windows on Linux) toolchains
Add support for multiple source URLs for third-party downloads
Add SHA256 hash verification for third-party downloads
Add configure parameter to disable or filter allowed third-party downloads (see configure --help)
Use HTTPS everywhere; the few cases where a third-party does not provide packages over https, handbrake.fr does
New targets on Mac to install and uninstall after building
Add flatpak packaging support (experimental)

Third-party libraries:

Updated libraries
FreeType 2.6.5 (subtitles)
Fontconfig 2.12.1 (subtitles)
FriBidi 0.19.7 (subtitles)
Libav 12 (encoding/decoding/muxing)
libass 0.13.2 (subtitles)
libbluray 0.9.3 (Blu-ray decoding)
libmfx v6.0.0 (Intel QuickSync Video encoding/decoding)
libvpx 1.5.0 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
x264 148 r2708 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
x265 2.1 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
New libraries
HarfBuzz 1.3.0 (subtitles)
libopus 1.1.3 (Opus audio encoding)

Windows:

Graphical interface now uses libhb directly, instead of sending commands to the command line interface
Encoding can now be paused and resumed
Stopping encoding will finalize the partial file to be playable
Reduced installer and install size
The command line interface is no longer included in the graphical interface installer
Update checker now verifies the signature of the update file for improved security
Added support for quality-based audio encoding
Added ability to import tab-separated (.tsv), XML (.xml), and plain text (.txt) chapter markers
Improved the "configure default" options for audio and subtitles
Default audio track behavior is now configurable
Subtitles burn-in behavior is now configurable
Removed DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) hardware-accelerated video decoding
Was causing many issues without providing sufficient improvement to decoding efficiency
May be added again at a later date if performance and stability improves
Usability improvements
Miscellaneous bug fixes

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Changelog

All platforms
Video

    Fixed a potential crash when using the VP8 or VP9 video encoders
    Fixed a potential crash when using 2-pass ABR

Command line interface

    Fixed importing chapter names from a file

Linux

    Fixed Keep Aspect Ratio control (disabled) when anamorphic mode is Auto
    Widened presets list to accommodate longer preset names
    Miscellaneous bug fixes

Mac

    Fixed a potential crash when using the subtitles burn feature on macOS versions earlier than 10.12 Sierra
    Fixed certain controls not updating when saving or loading a preset
    Miscellaneous bug fixes

Windows

    Fixed certain controls not updating when saving or loading a preset
    Disabled QSV decoding by default when non-QSV encoder selected (configurable)
    Miscellaneous bug fixes

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Changelog

Fixed video encoder options not reset when changing encoders
Fixed subtitles defaults behaviors to improve how tracks are added
Fixed issues related to source maximum and custom picture setting modes
Fixed point to point settings when editing a queued job
Fixed When Done controls not updating correctly on various screens
Fixed split buttons not working correctly on audio and subtitles tabs
Fixed destination path and file name error checking
Fixed potential crash by disabling OpenCL detection when the scaler is not set to OpenCL Bicubic (workaround for broken system drivers)
Fixed a potential crash when QSV is supported but disabled at the BIOS level
Fixed memory leaks in the QSV encoder
Added QSV detection for Intel Kaby Lake CPUs
Miscellaneous bug fixes

Video:

Fixed point to point encoding end point when using frames as the unit
Improve error handling for libdvdread and libavcodec decoders

Audio:

Fixed an issue where fallback encoder bitrate was not set properly

Subtitles:

Fixed incorrect duration for UTF-8 subtitles
Fixed an issue causing extra blank lines for UTF-8 subtitles in MKV

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Changelog

All platforms
Video

    Fixed H.264 decoding using Libav where the initial GOP was dropped
    Fixed 2-pass x265 encoding where the source header incorrectly specifies frame rate
    Fixed 2-pass encoding with bob deinterlace and constant frame rate
    Fixed a seek issue in Libav while reading MKV sources with embedded subtitles
    Fixed multiple issues preventing Libav from opening WMV sources properly
    Fixed miscellaneous issues in Libav
    Fixed memory leaks in OpenCL
    Improved sync for streams delayed by a large amount

Audio

    Fixed a Libav crash encoding AAC at very high bitrates
    Fixed a potential hang in Libav while decoding AAC
    Improved Libav audio sync with MP4 sources containing edit lists
    Improved mapping of single channel layouts to single channel layouts

Linux

    Fixed a potential crash when selecting video encoders
    Fixed various controls not applying values properly

Mac

    Fixed a crash when attempting to edit a queued job
    Improved audio start point to use edit lists when encoding using CoreAudio AAC

Windows

    Fixed Title Specific Scan for DVD/Blu-ray
    Fixed broken/missing NLMeans denoise tunes
    Fixed an issue that could cause error -17 when encoding using Intel QuickSync Video
    Fixed an issue where the SRT language code was not being set correctly

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Changelog

Fixed When Done option not updating/resetting correctly

Video:

Fixed decoding of raw video in Matroska/MKV
Fixed time stamp handling for containerless raw video
Fixed memory leaks in OpenCL
Fixed x265 2-pass encoding where video frame rate is altered by filters
Improved handling of very small amounts of sync jitter (~1 tick)
Improved handling of AVI files with broken indices

Audio:

Further refined fix for Libav crash encoding AAC at very high bitrates

Subtitles:

Removed fontconfig dependency on Mac and Windows; libass now uses CoreText/DirectWrite
Improved subtitle font selection when burning in SRT/SSA subtitles

Command line interface:

Fixed preset subtitle burn defaults override

Build system:

Updated MinGW-w64 build script for improved compatibility with hardened GCC

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Release Notes

All platforms
General
- Improved user interface
  - Redesigned main window for consistency and usability; overall flow is top to bottom, left to right
  - Added new preset controls directly in main workflow
  - Added new summary tab for overview of settings at a glance
  - Updated interface icons to support high resolution displays
- New and improved official presets
  - Added new presets for Vimeo and YouTube
  - Added new 2160p/4K device presets for Apple TV, Chromecast, Fire TV, and Roku
  - Added new Production presets for post-production video editing workflows
  - Added additional 2160p/4K Matroska presets
- Improved AppleTV 4K support
- Improved Intel QuickSync Video support
  - Added Linux support (experimental)
  - Added 10-bit H.265/HEVC encoding support for Kaby Lake and newer CPUs
  - Added support for multiple GPUs via D3D11 encode path
- Many bug fixes and improvements
Video
- Added new Unsharp and kernel-based Laplacian LapSharp sharpening filters
- Added CSM prefilter option to NLMeans filter
- Added support for mobile device orientation via auto-rotation container flag
- x265 10- and 12-bit encoders are now included by default; additional dll files are no longer required
Command line interface
- Added support for adaptive streaming (SPS and PPS before IDR frames) via the --inline-parameter-sets parameter
- Added --json parameter to output scan/status information in JSON format, useful for scripting
- Audio sample rate parameter --arate now accepts "auto" as a valid value
Build system
- Added support for FreeBSD 11.1 (must compile from source)
- Added support for compiling on Windows under MSYS (experimental, slow)
- Updated to mingw-w64-build 3.1.1 with support for mingw-w64 5.0.3 and gcc 7.2.0
- Update mac-toolchain-build to add NASM 2.13.2 (now required for x264)
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
Third-party libraries
- Updated libraries
  - FDK AAC 0.1.5 (AAC audio encoding, must compile from source)
  - FreeType 2.8.1 (subtitles)
  - HarfBuzz 1.7.2 (subtitles)
  - Jansson 2.10 (JSON architecture)
  - LAME 3.100 (MP3 audio encoding)
  - Libav 12.3 (decoding and filters)
  - libass 0.14.0 (subtitles)
  - libbluray 1.0.2 (Blu-ray decoding)
  - libdvdnav 5.0.3 (DVD decoding)
  - libdvdread 5.0.3 (DVD decoding)
  - libiconv 1.15 (character encoding support)
  - libmfx (upstream API 1.23)
  - libogg 1.3.2 (Xiph codecs support)
  - libopus 1.2.1 (Opus audio encoding)
  - libsamplerate 0.1.9-35-g02ebb9f (audio resampling)
  - libtheora 1.1.1 (Theora video encoding)
  - libvorbis 1.3.5 (Vorbis audio encoding)
  - libvpx 1.6.1 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
  - libxml2 2.9.4 (general)
  - x264 155 r2893 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
  - x265 2.6 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
  - zlib 1.2.11 (general)
Linux
- Added option to configure low disk space warning level
- Added Intel QuickSync Video encoder (experimental, requires specific Intel driver)
- Added support for Ubuntu 18.04 and 17.10; Ubuntu 15.04 support is removed
- Many other bug fixes and improvements
Mac
- Added option to configure low disk space warning level
- Improved support for VoiceOver navigation
- Many other bug fixes and improvements
Windows
- Added option to configure low disk space warning level
- Added option to play a sound (MP3/WAV) when encode or queue is finished
- Added option to show progress, pass, passcount in the application title or task tray icon tooltip
- Added more granular progress reporting during search for start of file and muxing
- Added support for per-display resolution awareness
- Added support for running HandBrake in a portable mode (see included portable.ini.template)
- Added custom anamorphic to dimensions tab, it's back!
- Improved static preview window still previews rendering
- Improved audio selection behavior controls; dropdowns are now context aware and range limited with better defaults
- Improved UI constency throughout
- Many other bug fixes and improvements

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