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HandBrake 1.7 Release: A Meaningful Update for This Year
The video converter tool comes with much-needed improvements. HandBrake, the popular open-source video transcoder, has received a new major release with some important upgrades. This release comes almost a year after the release of HandBrake 1.6,
Being one of the best open-source video converters for Linux, HandBrake is a neat option preferred by many for their video conversion/transcoding needs.
Let's take a look at what this release has to offer.
🆕 HandBrake 1.7: What's New?
HandBrake 1.7 features plenty of updates across the board.
Some key highlights include:
- Linux-Specific Improvements
- New AV1 Encoders
- Improved Performance
Linux-Specific Improvements
Support for bit depth and HDR information was added to the video summary, there is also a new option to pause the encoding of a video when switching to battery power or a power saving mode.
Then there's the added support for native file choosers , drag/drop support for video scanning , the ability to set automatic file naming options , the r emoval of the obsolete update checker , and more.
New AV1 Encoders
This has been the major highlight of this release , HandBrake now has support for two new AV1 encoders, AMD VCN AV1 and NVIDIA NVENC AV1.
Even existing AV1 encoding support sees a boost thanks to the implementation of multi-pass ABR mode for SVT-AV1.
Improved Performance
The performance of HandBrake sees a major boost on CPU architectures such as ARM64/AArch64 and Apple Silicon.
Now, users can take advantage of the new SVT-AV1 assembly optimizations , faster HEVC decoding with the latest FFmpeg libraries and 30% faster bwdif filtering.
🛠️ Other Changes and Improvements
As for the other refinements, here are some notable ones:
- Many third-party libraries were updated.
- The presets for Creator and Social were updated.
- New Apple VideoToolbox hardware presets were added.
- The dynamic range metadata pass through for Dolby Vision and HDR10+ were improved.
It's been some time since I last used HandBrake. But, I am glad to see that it is still receiving the care it deserves.
For complete technical details on this release, you may go through the release notes.
📥 Download HandBrake 1.7
HandBrake is available for Linux , Windows , and macOS. You can head over to the official website to grab the package of your choice.
If you are unsure how to install it; then you can go through our installation guide to learn more.
How to Upgrade?
HandBrake usually lets you know if there is a new update on Windows and macOS. The developers suggest you back up any custom presets and app preferences that you have set before performing the upgrade.
For Windows users , the devs recommend installing Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime version 6.0.x to be able to run this release properly.
However, for Linux users , they will have to update it via the Flathub store, or reinstall it with the updated Flatpak bundles provided on the official site or the GitHub repo.
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At the time of writing, the Flathub store version does not feature 1.7 release. You can expect it sooner.
💬 Will you be trying out this new release of HandBrake?
via: https://news.itsfoss.com/handbrake-1-7-release/
作者：Sourav Rudra 选题：lujun9972 译者：译者ID 校对：校对者ID