De eerste bètarelease van HandBrake versie 0.10 is verschenen. Dit opensource- en multithreaded programma, dat beschikbaar is voor Windows, Linux en OS X, kan filmbestanden omzetten naar videobestanden met een h264- of mpeg4-beeldindeling en een aac-, ac3-, mp3- of Ogg Vorbis-geluidsindeling. De final van versie 0.10 moet ergens in de komende maanden beschikbaar komen en bevat een groot aantal veranderingen. De belangrijkste zijn hieronder voor je op een rijtje gezet:
CoreWindows
- Intel QuickSync Video Encode / Decode support.
- Windows only currently. We hope to bring this to Linux user in the future.
- DXVA Hardware Decode support (Experimental)
- Windows Only.
- Suitable only for slower machines so disabled in preferences by default.
- Choice of Scalers
- Lanczos
- HandBrakes? default scaler.
- Bicubic (OpenCL) (Experimental)
- Currently only available in OpenCL form so requires a AMD or Intel GPU supporting OpenCL 1.1 or later. Nvidia GPU's are not currently supported.
- When downscaling, up to 5% performance improvement can be achieved. No benefit when not down-scaling.
- Small loss in quality over the Lanczos scaler.
- Denoise
- hqdn3d filter now accepts individual settings for both chroma channels (Cr, Cb)
- New NlMeans? denoiser. This is very slow, but results are significantly better than hqdn3d.
- Presets
- Added Windows Phone 8 Preset
- Updated Libraries
- x264 r2431-ac76440
- Libav v10.1
- libbluray 0.5.0
- Libavformat is now used for muxing instead of mp4v2 and libmkv
- "Large File Size" checkbox has now bee removed for mp4, as the new muxer will transition to 64bit files automatically.
- mpeg2dec has also been replaced in favour of using libav
- The LibAV AAC encoder is now the default as FAAC has been removed.
- This encoder is adequate for most, but until it improves a bit further, we have enabled support for the FDK-AAC encoder also.
- This FDK option is a temporary measure until the LibAV encoder improves.
- Note that FDK-AAC is much slower and will likely bottleneck the encode process, but will produce better quality audio.
- H.265 encoder (Experimental - available when compiled from source with --enable-x265)
- Early build of the new x265 encoder. Enabled on Windows only currently. (Mac / Linux builds will have it enabled shortly)
- Currently still some way off being ready for prime time. Useful for testing only at this stage.
- Added VP8 Encoder (using libvpx)
- Available in MKV files only.
- Removed mcdeint deinterlace and decomb modes. This relied on the snow encoder in libav which has been was removed by upstream.
- Bug fixes and Misc Improvements
Mac
- Accessibility / Usability Improvements
- Added option to 'Use System Colors'. The app should now be usable in a High Contrast mode.
- Fixed Tab ordering to make the app more keyboard friendly.
- LibHB is now used for scanning instead of the CLI.
- Improved the layout and design of the Audio and Subtitle tabs.
- Split buttons similar to the old 0.9.8 WinForms? GUI
- Improved layout on the track listbox to make better use of the space.
- Improvements to Auto-Naming feature.
- When Done
- Added an option that will reset this to 'Do nothing' when the app is closed and restarted.
- Presets
- New 'Presets' Menu
- Presets bar can now be hidden if it's not wanted.
- Numerous bug fixes
- Fixed the Issue in the source dropdown where the drive menu items did not work when clicked.
- Numerous fixes in the Picture settings panel around resolution calculation.
- Numerous fixes around the way Presets are loaded and saved, particularly around Picture settings.
- Removed Growl for Windows support due to bugs and issues with this library that remain unfixed. Project appears abandoned.
- Many misc other fixes.
- Windows XP is no longer supported. Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 or later is now a requirement.
Linux
- Build system updates to compiled under OS X 10.9
- Automatic audio and subtitle track selection behaviours which can be stored per preset.
- Improvements to Auto-Naming feature.
- Misc UI enhancements.
- Bug fixes and Misc Improvements
Command Line Interface
- Automatic audio and subtitle track selection behaviours which can be stored per preset.
- Improvements to Auto-Naming feature.
- Batch Add to queue by list selection.
- Russian and Czech Translations
- Bug fixes and Misc Improvements
- Requires GTK3
- Basic support for return codes from the CLI. (0 = No Error, 1 = Cancelled, 2 = Invalid Input, 3 = Initialization error, 4 = Unknown Error")
- Bug fixes and Misc Improvements