The popular HandBrake, specialized in video transcoding and available on almost all platforms, arrived yesterday in version 1.9.
There is an Intel QSV VVC decoder, support for lossless VP9 coding, an ALAC audio encoder, Vorbis pass-through support, better analysis of DTS audio profiles as well as a general update of the integrated libraries , notably Ffmpeg 7.1.
HandBrake 1.9 also includes platform-specific enhancements. For Windows, the software introduces a significant improvement, with support for video decoding by DirectX and AV1 encoding when using Media Foundation and on Arm machines. Also worth noting is a “Start Later” option in the queue window and better performance in the filter pipeline on Arm machines.
On macOS, the new version brings range limit controls to the “Add to Queue” selection window, a Swedish translation, as well as fixing a video corruption bug when multi -pass HEVC from VideoToolbox was enabled. Finally on Linux, HandBrake 1.9 brings some general corrections.
The list of new features and downloads are available from the project's GitHub page.
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