Hand Brake 1.9.0

HandBrake — is an open source video transcoder available for Linux, Windows and macOS, including ARM platforms.

• Main innovations of version 1.9.0:
  • added hardware video decoder Intel QSV VVC;
  • Added option to enable AV1 Screen Content Coding (SCC) on Intel Lunar Lake QSV AV1 encoder;
  • Added support for lossless VP9 encoding;
  • Added a setting to save duplicate Blu-ray titles;
  • Added support for Max Duration and Header Scan for disc-based sources.

• Audio:

  • added ALAC encoder;
  • added pass-through Vorbis;
  • Improved scanning of DTS audio profiles.

• Subtitles:

  • improved subtitle burning quality;
  • Fixed a rare video corruption issue that could occur when burning subtitles.

• Third party libraries:

  • The following libraries have been updated:
    • 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 encoding);
    • 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).

• Platform-specific changes:

  • Linux:

    • Fixed power saving option to pause encoding when enabled;
    • Fixed queue stop when deleting completed items;
    • Fixed saving of chapter titles;
    • fixes for various problems related to presets.

  • Windows:

    • added range limit controls to the Add to Queue -> Add Selection window;
    • Added support for DirectX-based video decoding when using the Media Foundation encoder on ARM devices;
    • Added support for Media Foundation AV1 encoder on ARM devices;
    • added "Start later" option to the queue window;
    • performance improvements in the filter pipeline on ARM devices
    • various bug fixes and performance improvements;
    • existing translations updated;
    • Added translation into Swedish.

  • macOS:

    • added range limit controls to the Add to Queue -> Add Selection window;
    • Fixed an issue that could cause video corruption when using VideoToolbox multipass;
    • various bug fixes and performance improvements;
    • existing translations updated;
    • Added translation into Swedish.

The program is written in C, C# and Objective-C, most of the project is distributed under the GPLv2 license (some files are under other open licenses)

Source: linux.org.ru