HandBrake 1.2.0 released. How to install HandBrake in Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives. HandBrake 1.2.0 is an open source video transcoder.
HandBrake 1.2.0
HandBrake 1.2.0 release includes improved support for opening sources previously unreadable; new official presets for Amazon Fire and Google Chromecast devices; AMD VCE, Nvidia NVENC, and Apple VideoToolbox hardware-accelerated video encoding; Touch Bar support on macOS; Dark Mode support on macOS 10.14 Mojave; initial localization support on Mac and Windows including German translation; and much more.
Linux specific changes in HandBrake 1.2.0
– Fixed Blu-ray title name being set to device name (e.g. sr0) when scanning raw devices
– Fixed Blu-ray default destination file names to no longer include MPLS number
– Fixed an issue with queue state not being updated properly on reload
– Fixed various issues importing presets
– Updated most translations
– Added initial support for GTK 4
– Added ability to customize activity window font size and increased default from 7 to 8
– Added destination overwrite protection (append number to file name on conflict)
– Added {source-path} to automatic path setting
– Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
All platforms
General
– Switched core decoding library from Libav to FFmpeg
– Fixes numerous sources previously unreadable or otherwise broken
– Facilitates a number of the improvements and features in this release and planned for the future
– Removed deprecated Legacy presets
– Updated official presets to use stereo instead of DPL2 mixdown
– Avoids potential spatial positioning issues with the current DPL2 algorithm and wide pans in source material
– Limited in impact since DPL2 decoding has not been in widespread use for years
– Updated official presets descriptions to revise compatibility and mention recently released devices
– Updated official presets to rename Fire TV to Amazon Fire
– Added Amazon Fire 720p30 and Chromecast 1080p60 presets
– Added {creation-date} and {creation-time} to automatic file naming
Video
– Fixed an issue decoding Blu-ray titles where the aspect ratio is unknown (assume 16:9)
– Fixed an issue encoding video with very short frame durations (less than 0.00285s or greater than 350 FPS)
– Improved extradata handling to accommodate all codecs
– Added support for decoding TIFF/LZMA video
Audio
– Fixed potential decoding issue for audio lacking an explicit channel layout (intelligently guess the layout)
– Fixed a potential crash during audio probe
– Improved resampling to allow dithering for all codecs (only where necessary)
– Improved quality of the default AAC encoder on non-Mac platforms (FFmpeg AAC), no longer experimental
– Improved bit rate constraints to allow Opus as low as 6 kbit/s per channel
– Added support for up to 7.1 channel AAC encoding (note that FDK AAC/HE-AAC do not support 6.1)
– Added support for E-AC3 audio in MP4 container
– Added Speex audio decoder
Subtitles
– Fixed a potential crash where an SRT file cannot be opened
– Added support for SRT files using periods instead of commas to delineate fractions
Command Line Interface
– Fixed inability to override preset subtitles burn setting (native and none are now valid values for –subtitle-burned)
– Fixed inability to override preset subtitles burn setting (native and none are now valid values for –subtitle-burned)
Install Handbrake in Ubuntu
For Linux Ubuntu systems, Handbrake can be installed in CLI ( Command
Line Interface) and GUI (Graphical User Interface) variants. Open
Terminal and run the following commands in Terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install handbrake
Run the following commands to install Handbrake GUI:
sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk
Run the following commands to install HandBrake CLI:
sudo apt-get install handbrake-cli
Once installed, open the Handbrake application from Ubuntu dash or menu.