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1.10.0
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HandBrake 1.10.0
General
- Added new "Social 10MB" presets
- Improved metadata passthru, preserving additional metadata including:
- Creation date
- Cover art
- Location
- Fixed an excessive memory usage during the indepth scan (#6963)
Command line interface
- Added an option to disable Dolby Vision and HDR10+ passthru
Video
- Added an option to choose the encoder color range
- Improved Framerate Shaper metrics performance for high resolution frames
- Fixed VCN encoder presets (#6974)
- Updated NVEnc CQ range (#6418)
Audio
- Addded an option to disable track names passthru and autonaming
- Fixed selection behaviour fallback when no audio track is found (#6666)
- EAC3 + Atmos is now properly signaled in MP4
Subtitles
- Addded an option to disable track names passthru
- SubRip/UTF-8 subtitles are now passed through to MKV without conversion to SSA
- Fixed a crash that could happen when burning bitmap subtitles
Filters
- Fixed a crash that could happen when using the Chroma Smooth filter (#7033)
Third-party libraries
- Updated libraries
- AMF 1.4.36 (AMD VCN video encoding)
- FFmpeg 7.1.1 (decoding and filters)
- HarfBuzz 11.3.3 (subtitles)
- libass 0.17.4 (subtitles)
- libdovi 3.3.2 (Dolby Vision dynamic metadata)
- libiconv 1.18 (character encoding support)
- libjpeg-turbo 3.1.1 (preview image compression)
- liblzma (xz) 5.8.1 (LZMA video decoding, e.g. TIFF)
- libogg 1.3.6 (Xiph codecs support)
- libtheora 1.2.0 (Theora video encoding)
- libvpx 1.15.2 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
- nv-codec-headers 13.0.19.0 (Nvidia NVENC encoding)
- oneVPL 2.15.0 (Intel QSV video encoding/decoding)
- SVT-AV1 3.1.0 (AV1 video encoding)
- x264 165 r3222 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
- x265 r13276 (H.265/HEVC video encoding)
Linux
- Fixed Opus and Vorbis passthru validation in Webm
- Fixed a crash that could happen when removing items from queue
- Fixed audio bitrates list validation (#6997)
- Built-in presets for unavailable hardware encoders are now hidden
- Removed orphaned, no longer maintained locales or locales without active translators (af, cs, da, he, hr, ka, no, pl, pt, ro, ru, si, sk, th, tr, uk_UA, zh_TW). Removed locales are welcome back as soon as the locales are updated.
- Updated existing and maintained locales.
Mac
- Added support for the VideoToolbox AV1 hardware decoder
- Added a Metal accelerated Render Sub filter
- Added a contextual menu to the presets popover
- Updated Auto Naming Preferences to add "{angle}" as a filename generation option (#6086)
- Reduced CPU usage when using VideoToolbox decoders and encoders
- Encoded files are now excluded from Time Machine until they are completed
- Fixed queue jobs not being reloaded properly when the source is a .iso file
- Fixed "Same as source" destination option, it didn't work properly in some case
- Updated existing and maintained locales
Windows
- Added a new preference "Default Range Mode for titles". See Preferences -> Advanced (#6385)
- Added a new preference to run a custom action when the queue completes. See Preferences -> When Done (#4851)
- Added "{destination_folder}" as option on the "Encode Completed" "Send File To" option.
- Added support for DirectX based AV1 video decoding when using the Media Foundation encoder on ARM devices
- Updated Auto Naming Preferences to add "{angle}" as a filename generation option (#6086)
- Performance Optimisations for ARM64 devices running Windows
- Minor miscellaneous UI improvements.
- Various bug fixes and improvements (#6524, #6517, #6514, #6477, #6473, #6086, #6984, #6892, #6999, #7003)
- Added new translations
- Galician (Galego)
- Hungarian (Magyar)
- Removed orphaned, no longer maintained locales or locales without active translators (cs-CZ). Removed locales are welcome back as soon as the locales are updated.
- Updated existing and maintained locales.