HandBrake 1.6 Adds AV1 Video Encoding, Quick Look Support, More
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Posted December 30, 2022 at 3:52pm by iClarified · 4554 views
The popular HandBrake open-source video transcoder for Linux, Mac, and Windows has been updated to version 1.6.
HandBrake 1.6 brings numerous new features and improvements including support for AV1 video encoding, VP9 10-bit encoding, improved video scaling performance on Apple Silicon, Quick Look support, and much more.
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 support for the NVDEC decoder. ● 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
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 (Български) ○ Finnish (Suomi) ○ Georgian (ქართული)
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 (Български) ○ Dutch (Nederlands) ○ Polish (Polski)
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