HandBrake 1.0.0 Released After 13 Years Of Development (fossbytes.com)

HandBrake, popular open source video transcoder, has finally hit version 1.0.0 affter spending roughly more than 13 years in development. HandBrake 1.0.0 brings tons of new presets and support for more devices and file types. From a report: HandBrake 1.0.0 comes with new web and MKV presets. The official presets from HandBrake 0.10.x can be found under 'Legacy.' New Jason-based preset system, including command line support, has been added. The additional features of HandBrake are title/chapter selection, queuing up multiple encodes, chapter markers, subtitles, different video filters, and video preview. Just in case you have a compatible Skylake or later CPU, Intel QuickSync Video H.265/HEVC encoder support brings performance improvements. HandBrake 1.0.0 also brings along new online documentation beta. It's written in a simple and easy-to-understand language.You can download it here.

Comments

Beta versioning

[Dutch Gun]

Is there some obscure point of pride for remaining in "beta" versioning for that long? What's the point of that? It's been quite functional and stable for many years now. Understating your version number is no better than Chrome and Firefox's ridiculous version number race, IMO. Not a huge deal, of course. I just wonder why this is a thing.

Love Handbrake, but don't use it as often these days as I'm no longer buying and ripping my own DVDs or BluRays to my media server. Streaming is just too convenient.

Re: Beta versioning

[Anonymous Coward]

There's something ironic about the fact that it got out of beta long after the media it originally supported went extinct - it's a little late. For the rest of us we weren't really looking at the fact that it's V0.9 as being remotely significant and we've been using it anyway. Alpha, Beta, Early Access, these terms are all pretty useless now. V1.0 used to mean it's out of beta, QAed and ready for release as a working product. We see game titles that need patches on day 0. These labels don't work anymore.

A version number is a monotonically increasing number. The only thing significant is that it goes up and only up. There's nothing significant about V1.0.

We should just use Linux epoch time for version numbers.

Re:Beta versioning

[thegarbz]

but don't use it as often these days as I'm no longer buying and ripping my own DVDs or BluRays to my media server.

I use it more now than an ever. The switch to H.265 can save a lot of disk space so I use it to transcode some old under compressed stuff.

Then there's Skype for business. In MS's infinite wisdom the current version of Skype saves HUGE files even at the lowest quality when recording meetings, and yet the defaults for Sharepoint limit files to 50MB (the company I work for is too big to get something like this changed). None the less you can easily get a 1 hour meeting with powerpoint down to below 50MB in H.264 with the right massaging in Handbrake.

Re: Beta versioning

[TheRaven64]

There's something ironic about the fact that it got out of beta long after the media it originally supported went extinct

I'm still buying (and renting) DVDs. There's still no good replacement that works well across different platforms and isn't laden with DRM (DVDs technically have DRM, but it's so thoroughly broken that it may as well not exist).

Re:Still optimized for Intel

[BLKMGK]

Ryzen is also not the first AMD CPU that has claimed it's going to compete clock for clock with Intel too. As much as I'd like to see AMD actually do it I'm reserving my opinion until it's actually produced and in consumer's hands for testing. That said, I'm holding off a little bit on my planned SkyLake build to see if they've managed to pull it off. If they have it'll be good for everyone!

Re:Breaking

[Existential Wombat]

Update. News at 11.1.

Re:Still optimized for Intel

[Billly Gates]

OpenSource program gets paid by Intel to cripple AMD performance? This is your guess based upon poor performance of your CPU? Good grief....

Oh really?

Yes it is not a vast conspiracy that intel cheats with some popular benchmarks.

Re:Still optimized for Intel

[Raxxon]

Intel's had an 8core Desktop for a while now.... and there's the shiny new 10core that you're thinking of at that $1700+ price point. And those are actual cores before "HyperThreading" or whatever they're wanting to call it now gets taken into count... so 16 and 20 thread execution respectively. And yes, Desktop product, not Xeon product in desktop boards with wonky support.

Re:Still optimized for Intel

[thegarbz]

Oh really [intel.com]?

Maybe you should read that article. And then maybe you should look into what Intel contributed.

It's kind of hard to "cripple" AMD hardware that AMD doesn't have. Intel contributed a QSV capable codec to Handbrake. AMD are more than welcome to do so too, the source is open and I'm willing to bet Handbrake people wouldn't complain if AMD finally gave people a hardware encoder + code that worked for it.

re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released After 13 Years Of Dev

[rickyslashdot]

THANK YOU - - - Eric Petit (aka "titer" from his SVN repository username), Laurent Aimar (fenrir), Van Jacobson (van), John Allen (johnallen), Joe Crain (dynaflash), Damiano Galassi (ritsuka), Edward Groenendaal (eddyg), David Foster (davidfstr), Rodney Hester (rhester), Andrew Kimpton (awk), Chris Lee (clee), Chris Long (chrislong), Brian Mario (brianmario)Maurj (maurj), Mirkwood (mirkwood), Nyx (Nyx), Philippe Rigaux (prigaux), Jonathon Rubin (jbrjake), Scott (s55), John Stebbins (j45), Chris Thoman (huevos_rancheros), Mark Krenek (travistex), Kona "Mike" Blend (KonaBlend), David Rickard (RandomEngy), Tim Walker (Rodeo), Bradley Sepos (BradleyS), Maxym Dm (maxim_d33), and all the others that have assisted in this project ! ! ! ! !

https://github.com/HandBrake/H...

HANDBRAKE has been 'my friend' for many years, even as a beta, and has allowed me to view many videos without having to know anything (or very little) about the inner workings of transcoders / video-packages / 'container' details, etc.

Cheers to you and those like you that provide help for the semi-educated masses that need help converting videos from one format to another !

I cannot adequately express the level of admiration and respect I have for those of you that are providing services for the people, free of charge, and solely for your own gratification.

Best and Sincere Regards - - - and Happy Holidays
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Re:Still optimized for Intel

[Anonymous Coward]

There is no source. HandBrake has never accepted money from Intel. Period. We don't get paid for the work we do.

All our source code is public on GitHub. If there was anything malicious like this in there, it would be spotted pretty easily. It's not a huge code base.

AMD VCE is hopefully going to be added some day. We did have initial patches from AMD, but they've changed directions with their libraries and the GPUOpen project so someone needs to find the time to re-do all that work.

NVENC is also an option if it can be added in a GPL friendly way.