Install Handbrake Video Transcoder on Linux Ubuntu – Ubuntu handbrake cli or learn how to use handbrake in Ubuntu. HandBrake is an open-source video transcoder available for Linux, Mac, and Windows, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2.
HandBrake takes videos you already have and makes new ones that work on your mobile phone, tablet, TV media player, game console, computer, or web browser—nearly anything that supports modern video formats.
HandBrake works with most common video files and formats, including ones created by consumer and professional video cameras, mobile devices such as phones and tablets, game and computer screen recordings, and DVD and Blu-ray discs. HandBrake leverages tools such as FFmpeg, x264, and x265 to create new MP4 or MKV video files from these Sources.
Handbrake 1.2.2 – Linux specific Changes
- Fixed Flatpak icon validation by reducing resolution to pass new restrictions
- Fixed Flatpak accessing gvfs mounted filesystems by adding an additional access permission
- Fixed display of special characters in preset names
- Fixed exporting presets to sanitize system reserved characters
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
Handbrake 1.2.2 – Changes for all platforms
General
- Fixed potential crashes due to use of uninitialized variables
- Improved minimum duration to only apply to DVD and BD sources
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
Video
- Fixed incorrect video rotation where rotation is explicitly flagged as none
- Fixed yadif deinterlace filter not properly deinterlacing all frames
- Fixed missing frame at the end of encodes from m2ts sources
- Fixed detection of MPEG-1 video in program streams by improving probing of unknown streams
- Fixed decoding of MPEG-1 video in DVD sources
- Fixed Apple VideoToolbox encoding issues related to pyramidal B-frames
- Fixed lapsharp filter corrupting frame edges
- Improved NLMeans performance by reducing number of threads used with CPUs with high logical core counts
- Improved AMD VCE encoding to enable placing key frames at chapter markers
- Improved calculation of final frame duration
- Improved support for BT.2020 color space
Audio
- Fixed channel mapping for AAC 5.1 encoding (signal 5.1 Back instead of 5.1 Side which is less compatible)
Command line interface
- Fixed selection of encoders applied to tracks selected with –all audio
- Fixed audio settings where more are specified than exist in the preset
- Fixed overriding audio bit rate set by the preset
Build system
- Fixed libvpx cross compilation with GCC 8 by disabling AVX-512
- Fixed x265 cross compilation with GCC 8
- Updated to mingw-w64-build 4.1.1 with improvements to error reporting and support for sha256sum on systems without shasum
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
Download Handbrake 1.2.2
Handbrake 1.2.2 Source code (zip)
Handbrake 1.2.2 Source code (tar.gz)
Install Handbrake 1.2.2
To install Handbrake Video Transcoder from Ubuntu Linux Systems, run the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install handbrake-gtk handbrake-cli
To uninstall and remove Handbrake Video Transcoder from Ubuntu Linux Systems, run the following commands:
sudo apt remove --autoremove handbrake-gtk handbrke-cli
sudo apt-get update