Portable HandBrake 1.8.1 (x64) Multilingual
After more than 13 years of development, the HandBrake Team is delighted to present HandBrake v1. Thank you to all of our many contributors over the years for making HandBrake what it is today. HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. HandBrake portable is a multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder. Supported sources: Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD, and some .VOB and .TS files, Blu-ray source,
Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode. Outputs: File format: MP4, MKV, Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding), Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks), Switchable or burned in subtitles and much more!
The interface of the application is standard and both beginners and experienced individuals can easily get accustomed to this program.
You can import a DVD folder or video file by using the file browser or the “drag and drop” method. Then, you can select the title and chapters, preset, output format destination, as well as configure settings before initiating the encoding process. I recommend using the included Presets if you lack the needed advanced knowledge.
You can apply many video filters (grayscale, detelecine, decomb, deinterlace, denoise, deblock), as well as set the video codec (H.264, H.265, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, VP8, Theora) framerate and quality, audio codec (AAC, HE-AAC, MP3, AC3, OGG), mixdown, sample frequency rate and bitrate.
Also, you can add, remove or import subtitles (SRT format only) and enable the “Forced Only”, “Burned In” and “Default” options, create chapter markers and import/export a CSV file.
When it comes to advanced options, you can select the encoding method (e.g. reference frames), psychovisual, analysis (e.g. “Adaptive Direct Mode”), partition type, deblocking, and others.
Additionally, you can preview results, create a task list (i.e. batch conversions), import and export presets, configure program settings, and more.
The program uses a moderate amount of system resources, takes a long time to complete a task but manages to keep very good image and sound quality. There’s also an online user guide available.
Built-in Device Presets:
Get started with HandBrake in seconds by choosing a profile optimised for your device, or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions. Simple, easy, fast. For those that want more choice, tweak many basic and advanced options to improve your encodes.
Supported Input Sources:
Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.
Outputs:
- File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV
- Video Encoders: H.265 (x265 and QuickSync), H.264(x264 and QuickSync), H.265 MPEG-4 and MPEG-2, VP8 and Theora
- Audio Encoders: AAC / HE-AAC, MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis
- Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, E-AC3, DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD, AAC and MP3 tracks
Even more features:
- Title / chapter and range selection
- Batch Scan and Queueing of encodes
- Chapter Markers
- Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
- Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
- Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
- Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Denoise, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
- Live Video Preview
HandBrake Portable v7 New:
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
- Updated NVENC to not use multi-pass by default; user configurable advanced option
- Renamed 2-pass encode option to multi-pass
- Fixed Intel QSV encoder outputting green video in some cases
- Fixed pixel format conversion slightly altering colors when using a 10-bit hardware encoder
- 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
- Fixed automatic cropping enabled despite using preset with cropping disabled
Audio:
- Fixed low volume level when downmixing ac3 and eac3
- Fixed left-only and right-only mono mixdowns
Subtitles:
- Fixed locale settings potentially causing incorrect decimal separator in SSA headers
- Fixed a potential issue affecting zero-duration subtitles
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)
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
- Fixed Title Specific Scan for physical drive sources
- Fixed an potential issue that could cause an unmodified preset to display as “modified”
- Fixed an potential issue where changes to queue order were not retained
- Fixed an Audio tab issue where using a non-fallback encoder could lead to duplicated tracks
- 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
- 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
Release Notes:
All platforms
Video
- Fixed a warning / misconfiguration when repeat-headers is used with the x265 encoder.
- Fixed an issue where the NVEnc encoder ignored the level option
Subtitles
- Fixed an issue where dvd subtitles could be corrupted during rendering.
Filters
- Fixed an issue that caused video artefacts to occur when using the eedi2 filter
Third-party libraries
- Updated libraries
- FFmpeg 7.0.1 (decoding and filters)
- libdav1d 1.4.3 (AV1 video decoding)
Windows
- Hardware decoding is now defaulted to off for new installations. Users can opt-in whilst making sure they are running up-to-date drivers
- Fixed an issue where hardware decoding could erroneously be used for previews
- Fixed an issue where auto name was triggering too aggressively
- Removed an erroneous error message when dragging files onto the main window that include a subtitle file.
