HandBrake, The open source video transcoder, releases v1.0.0

Handbrake is one of those Linux gems that, in my experience, provides a certain quality equivalent to VLC. And after 13 years, they have reached version 1.0.0. Here is whats new...

Features

This new release boosts several new features and bugfixes, this is just a limited one, to see the full changelog, see here: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

• General
• New online documentation at https://handbrake.fr/docs
• Completely overhauled the official presets
  • New general use presets for broad compatibility
  • New device presets, now more up-to-date for common devices
  • New web presets
  • New Matroska (MKV) presets, including VP9 video with Opus audio
  • Official presets from HandBrake 0.10.x are still available under "Legacy"
• New JSON-based preset system including command line support
• New JSON-based API for interacting with libhb
• Improvements to audio/video sync engine to better handle difficult sources
• Many miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements (over 1700 code commits!)
• Video
• VP9 video encoding via libvpx
• Intel QuickSync Video H.265/HEVC encoder
  • Requires Intel Skylake or newer CPU
• Ultra HD / 4K color pass through (support for BT.2020)
• Additional standard frame rate selections in the graphical interfaces
• New Auto anamorphic mode maximizes storage resolution, replaces Strict anamorphic mode
• New Pad filter (command line only for now)
• New Decomb/Deinterlace filter settings and improved defaults
• Rotate filter now available in all graphical interfaces
• New NLMeans filter tunes Tape and Sprite for analog tape recordings and vintage video games, respectively
• Assembly optimizations NLMeans filter improve performance up to 10%
• Assembly optimizations in x264 encoder improve performance for faster presets by 5-10%
• x265 encoder quality improvements, especially when using tune grain
• High bit depth encoding support via external shared libraries (video pipeline is still 8-bit 4:2:0)
  • x264 10-bit
  • x265 10-bit and 12-bit
• Audio
• Opus audio encoding/decoding via libopus
• Passthru now supports E-AC-3, FLAC, and TrueHD audio formats
• Linux
• Add options for saving and loading queue files
• Removed system tray icon due to performance issues on Ubuntu
• Usability improvements
• Miscellaneous bug fixes

Install

The easiest way to download and stay up to date with the latest HandBrake release is via PPA.

The handbrake supports the following Ubuntu distros: Yakkety (16.10), Xenial (16.04), Trusty (14.04), Precise (12.04), but you can also Download the Windows, Mac, And othe builds from HandBrake Downloads page. Thats is, have fun!

(If you wish to compile it from source you can try it via the following article: How to compile handbrake from source)