Download HandBrake 1.4.1

Version 1.4.1 of HandBrake has been released. Available for Windows, Linux, and macOS, this open source program can convert footage into files that include h.264, h265, or mpeg4 image formats, and aac, ac3, mp3, or Ogg Vorbis sound formats. Presets are available for commonly used equipment, such as an iPad, AppleTV or Android tablet, and things like chapter layout and subtitles can also be taken into account. Since version 1.4.0 there is support for hdr10 and 10 and 12bit encoding, and requires .Net 5.0 under Windows. In version 1.4.1 the following changes and improvements have also been made:

General

• Fixed a crash when using “Align AV” on Intel based systems. (#3683)
• Fixed a crash when reading certain DVD’s with missing VOB files

Hardware Encoding

• Fixed an issue with QuickSync accelerated Crop/Scale generating incorrect aspect ratios (#3236)
• Fixed a crash after a subtitle scan when using the QuickSync encoder. (#3741)

subtitles

• Backport some libass patches which should correct some issues with font and font-weight selections. (#3736)
• Fixed an issue that could prevent 3rd party software handling HandBrake files with dvb subtitles.

Command line interface

• Fixed a regression that prevented upscaling when using -w and -h (#3746)

Linux

• Added: flatpak permission to show bookmarks in file dialogs (#3748)

mac

• Fix an issue where the Quality Slider was being ignored when using the VideoToolbox encoder. (#3751)
• Fixed an issue where incompatible hardware presets could be selected.

Windows

• Windows UI builds are now available for ARM64 devices. (Named arm64 or aarch64 in the download section)
• Added upgrade notices to the installer welcome page advising of .NET Desktop Runtime 5 requirements and to complete existing queue. (#3693)
• Added support for software rendering which can be enabled to workaround issues with Variable Refresh Rate and 3rd party software causing rendering corruption (#3755)
• Added a new preference to define how the preset toolbar button renders the preset list. (#3697)
• Fixed a crash which would prevent all user settings from loading in some circumstances.
• Fixed “Reset Settings” button in preferences. Certain settings were not reset correctly. (#3726)
• Fixed issues with the built-in updater that may cause it to fail to run the installer if the app was not running as admin.
• Fixed an issue that required and app restart to apply changes to the max simultaneous encodes setting.
• Fixed an issue with Audio Defaults fallback encoder quality/bitrate/mixdown settings would not display correct values ​​(#3739)
• Fixed an with QSV multi-instance support where multiple Intel GPUs are used.