HandBrake 1.0.7

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.
Linux:
Fixed video preset control not updating.
Fixed audio passthru masks not updating until preset save.
Fixed application of SRT subtitles offset.
Updated translations: af, cs, ja_JP, ru, sk, sv.
Windows:
Fixed When Done option not updating/resetting correctly.

# All platforms
* 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)
# Linux
- Add options for saving and loading queue files
- Removed system tray icon due to performance issues on Ubuntu
- Usability improvements
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
# Mac
- Updated all tooltips
- Added undo/redo support to the graphical interface
- Improved drag and drop support
- Added Open Recent to the File menu
- Added Add Titles to Queue... to the File menu (batch queueing)
- Preview prompts to open in an external application when the internal player does not support the format
- Preview now displays volume and audio/subtitles language selection during playback
- Picture and Filters settings are now part of the main window
- Settings are preserved when selecting a new title (instead of reloading the last selected preset)
- Improved support for importing/exporting comma-separated (.csv) chapter markers
- Queue is now automatically paused when available disk space is low
- When Done action can now be changed directly from the Queue window
- When Done notification is now interactive (reveals the encoded file in Finder)
- Activity Log window is now searchable (press "?"+"f" to activate)
- XQuartz is no longer required for subtitle burn-in
- Updated Sparkle software update library : Enabled DSA signature checking for improved security
- Usability improvements
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
# 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

- 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.

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

- A number of bug fixes and performance improvements.

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

# General
* Core
- Intel QuickSync Video Encode / Decode support.
> Windows only currently. We hope to bring this to Linux in the future but not for 0.10.
- Hardware Decode support via DXVA (Experimental - Windows Only)
> Decoding of some H.264, VC1 and WMV content via the GPU.
> Can provide a small improvement on slower hardware. Not suitable for fast CPU's
- Choice of Scalers
> Lanczos
^ This is currently Handbrake's default scaler and will remain so.
> 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 more 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.

# General
* Improved HandBrake pineapple icon by Matt Johnson
* Improved Retina-resolution icons within the application
# Core
* Blu-ray (PGS) subtitle support
- works with Foreign Audio Search
- can be Burned-In
- can be passed through to MKV (but not MP4)
* Additional video framerates
- 30, 50, 59.94, 60 fps
* Double framerate ("bob") mode for the deinterlace and decomb filters
* Better audio remix support
- additional mixdowns: 6.1, 7.1, 7.1 (5F/2R/LFE)
> CLI users should note 6ch becomes 5point1
- better-than-Stereo sources can be upmixed to 5.1
- discard one channel from Stereo sources
> Mono (Left Only), Mono (Right Only)
* Allow the selection of higher audio bitrates where appropriate
* Allow the selection of lower audio samplerates where appropriate
- 8, 11.025, 12, 16 kHz
* Audio dithering (TPDF) when converting to 16-bit FLAC
* Use libavcodec for DTS audio decoding (instead of libdca)
- DTS-ES 6.1 Discrete support
* All graphical interfaces: support for x264's preset, tune and profile options
- alternative to the Advanced panel (which is still available)
- HandBrake-specific option to ensure compliance with a specific H.264 level
* Updated built-in presets
- take advantage of x264 preset/tune/profile support
- removed increasingly suboptimal and irrelevant Legacy presets
* Assorted bug fixes and improvements to the core library (libhb)
* Updated libraries
- x264 r2273-b3065e6
- Libav v9.6
- libbluray 0.2.3
# Windows
* User Interface has been re-written in WPF
- Includes many small UI enhancements
* Switched to .NET 4 Client Profile
- smaller download for those who don't have .NET 4 Full installed

- Fix some bugs that cropped up with 0.9.7.

- Adds a new preset for the AppleTV 3.
- Tweaks the existing iPad preset to support up to 720P.
- Fixes a couple of common issues.

# Encoders:
* Video:
- updated libx264 (revision 2146)
- MPEG-2 encoder (from libavcodec)
- advanced options support for libavcodec encoders format: option1=value1:option2=value2 -bf 2 -trellis 2 becomes bf=2:trellis=2
* Audio:
- audio gain control (increase/decrease audio volume)
- updated libogg (1.3.0) and libvorbis (aoTuV b6.03)
- new AAC encoder (from libavcodec) (considered experimental) (supported mixdowns: Mono/Stereo/Dolby?, 5.1 will come later) (should be on par with faac in terms of quality, sometimes better)
- FLAC encoder (16-bit, MKV container only)
- Mac OS X: HE-AAC encoding support, via Core Audio
- quality-based variable bitrate encoding support works with: Lame MP3, Vorbis, Core Audio AAC only implemented in CLI and Linux GUI
- AC3 encoder: set Dolby Surround flag in stream parameters when mixdown is Dolby Surround or Pro Logic II
* Audio Passthru:
- DTS Passthru to MP4 container (in addition to MKV) (supported by e.g. VLC, MPlayer)
- DTS-HD Passthru (MP4, MKV containers)
- MP3 Passthru (MP4, MKV containers)
- AAC Passthru (MP4, MKV containers) (known issue: Magic Cookie not passed through from MPEG Program/Transport? streams,which will break playback in e.g. QuickTime Player)
- Auto Passthru: one encoder, multiple codecs lets you define allowed codecs (from supported passthru codecs) lets you pick a fallback encoder if passthru is not possible
* Muxers:
- start MKV clusters with a video keyframe whenever possible should improve seeking and DLNA streaming
- bug fix: use ISO 639-2 bibliographic form for MKV language codes
- bug fix: fix crash due to division by zero in MP4 muxer
- bug fix: fix muxing of Closed Captions. Improper interleaving broke playback on some players
# Decoders:
* Video:
- updated libav* libraries from Libav ( http://libav.org/) (v0.7-1696-gcae4f4b, late October 2011) frame-based multithreading for H.264, VP8 10-bit decoding support for H.264, DNxHD Apple ProRes? decoding support
- improved average framerate detection
- duplicate frame detection for improved frame drop decision (CFR/PFR)
- new Same as source, Constant Framerate option for devices that don't support variable framerate automatically picks a constant framerate closest to the detected average framerate
- bug fix: fix problem when resolution changes in the middle of a video stream
* Audio:
- Blu-ray: make TrueHD, DTS-HD and E-AC3 Secondary Audio streams available for decoding and/or passthrough
- bug fix: libavcodec-decoded streams can now be decoded multiple times previously, multiple decodes of the same source tracks weren't possible and audio output tracks had to be dropped
- bug fix: fix audio screech at beginning of some audio tracks when decoding AC3
- bug fix: fix DTS decoder audio volume (was too low)
- bug fix: garbled audio when decoding DTS-HD audio from MKV containers
- bug fix: fix support for DTS-HD High Resolution Audio in MPEG Transport streams
* Subtitles:
- updated libass (0.10.0)
- improved handling of subtitles with overlapping timestamps
- improved handling of DVD subtitles without Stop Display commands
- SSA subtitles are now passed through to MKV without conversion to SRT/UTF-8
- bug fix: fix rendering problem with SSA subtitles when no font is embedded in the source video
# Demuxers:
- improved MPEG Program/Transport? stream support support for MPEG-1 Program streams support for HD-DVD EVOB streams improved handling of Transport streams that have no PCR
- WTV container support (via libavformat)
- bug fix: files with more than 20 tracks (video, audio, subtitles etc.) are now supported
- bug fix: some QuickTime MOV files were misdirected as MPEG Transport streams
- bug fix: fix detection of TrueType? font attachments that don't have the correct MIME type
# Filters:
* new, much improved decomb filter (but slower) new settings are default old settings become decomb "Fast"
# Presets:
* improved "Normal" preset (much faster, similar file size and quality)
* removed obsolete legacy presets
* added new device presets for Android phones/tablets recent and/or powerful devices recommended
# Mac OS X:
* DVD decryption:
- VLC 2.x or later will not work for DVD decryption and is therefore unsupported as of HandBrake 0.9.6
- libdvdcss is now the preferred method for DVD decryption already works with HandBrake 0.9.5 a .pkg installer is available from Videolan: http://download.videolan.org/libdvdcss/last/macosx/
* Build system:
- support for Xcode 4 and Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion"
- Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" no longer supported
# Mac OS X GUI:
* OS X 10.7 Lion support:
- bug fix: Live Preview window widgets updated to work under Lion
- bug fix: fixed positioning of widgets in the Audio panel under Lion
* Other:
- wider main window providing more room for various widgets
# Windows GUI:
* Preview window:
- complete redesign
- support for VLC or the system default video player
- dropped built-in QuickTime playback support
* Other:
- much improved control over the default audio and subtitle tracks selected (see Options)
- ability to set the minimal title length that will show up during a scan (see Options)
- several other usability improvements
- installer now has a silent option for easier network installs (launch the installer with /S)
# Linux GUI:
* Audio panel:
- new advanced audio options section for gain and audio track names
- dynamic range compression and samplerate moved to advanced audio options
* Other:
- minor UI tweaks and usability enhancements
# Miscellaneous:
* Target Size is gone, and isn't coming back Don't bother complaining on the forums
* CLI: support for x264 presets, tunes and profiles new --x264-preset, --x264-tune and --x264-profile options
* DVD: fix issues with some discs
* DVD: improved main feature detection
* updated libbluray (0.0.1-pre-213-ga869da8, late May 2011)