Karlston Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 Handbrake 1.2.0 is the latest version of the cross-platform open source video transcoder. The new version is available for all supported operating systems -- Windows, Linux and Mac OS X -- and as source code. We reviewed Handbrake in 2007 for the first time and have followed development ever since. Windows users can download the setup version or a portable copy of Handbrake; the new version requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 which will be downloaded and installed if not present on the system. Handbrake for Mac OS X requires OS X 10.10 or later now. Handbrake 1.2.0 Handbrake 1.2.0 features numerous changes and improvements. The development team switched the decoding library from Libav to FFmpeg in the release; Libav and other components were removed from the program package as a consequence. FFmpeg was added, and several libraries were updated. The video transcoder comes with a list of default presets to convert videos for specific devices, platforms, or screen resolutions and types. The new Handbrake version introduces support for 720p at 30 fps for Amazon Fire devices and 1080p at 60 fps for Google Chromecast devices. Other presets were updated, and some legacy ones removed. Presets are configurations that users may select, e.g. to convert a video so that it is optimized for a specific device or platform. All it takes is to select a preset, e.g. Devices > Android 480p30 or General > Super HQ 1080p30 Surround, to change the encoding parameters accordingly. Parameters can be customized after loading presets. Another new feature is support for automatic queue archiving; the queue can be recovered for seven days, useful if Handbrake crashes or is closed unexpectedly to restore the queue and continue with the transcoding process. Handbrake may be run with the parameter --recover-queue-ids=ID to recover a specific queue on start. Users on Windows devices who run Handbrake may benefit from support for AMD VCE and NVIDIA NVENC hardware-accelerated encoders to speed up the encoding process. There is more: Windows users can drag and drop SRT subtitle files to add them to videos, Mac Os X users on 10.14 or higher find support for Dark Mode and Touch Bar support, and Linux users get initial support for GTK 4. Check out the entire -- huge -- changelog on the official website for a full rundown on new and improved features in Handbrake 1.2.0. Source: Handbrake 1.2.0 video transcoder released (gHacks - Martin Brinkmann) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 25, 2018 Administrator Share Posted December 25, 2018 Quote Users on Windows devices who run Handbrake may benefit from support for AMD VCE and NVIDIA NVENC hardware-accelerated encoders to speed up the encoding process. What took them so many years when when other converters had it from years this. It's among the single most important feature and was missing from a long time I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted December 26, 2018 Author Share Posted December 26, 2018 Tried it out with NVEnc enabled, but transcoding (h.264 to h.265) time was about the same. According to the Nvidia NVEnc Encoder part of the HandBrake documentation... Quote Supported Hardware and Configurations Nvidia GeForce 10 and 20 Series graphics cards are supported. Driver “399.24” or later must be installed. Windows 7 SP1 and Later. (Linux may work but via the command line interface only) Please note, these are not hard limits and the feature may work on older series and operating systems, but this is not officially supported. I need a later driver, just need to trawl the NVidia driver forum to find a stable 399.24 or later one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted January 1, 2019 Administrator Share Posted January 1, 2019 On 12/27/2018 at 12:38 AM, Karlston said: Tried it out with NVEnc enabled, but transcoding (h.264 to h.265) time was about the same. According to the Nvidia NVEnc Encoder part of the HandBrake documentation... I need a later driver, just need to trawl the NVidia driver forum to find a stable 399.24 or later one. Have you tried converting just any file to H.264. With hardware acceleration it will take like one fourth the time it takes normally. The reason I say convert to H.264 is that not every graphics cards, at least the ones that came more than couple of years ago, have support for hardware acceleration for H.265 in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted January 1, 2019 Author Share Posted January 1, 2019 1 hour ago, DKT27 said: Have you tried converting just any file to H.264. With hardware acceleration it will take like one fourth the time it takes normally. The reason I say convert to H.264 is that not every graphics cards, at least the ones that came more than couple of years ago, have support for hardware acceleration for H.265 in them. Not to h.264, but lots of different formats including h.264 to h.265. My media player (Odroid C2) does hardware decoding of h.265, so have been converting to get lots of disk space back. IME, h.265 saves ~40% over h.264, though strangely most h.264 movies become larger. Have a GTX 1070, and from this post... https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/981372/geforce-basics/which-gpus-support-hevc-a-k-a-h-265-/post/5036767/#5036767 Quote Feature Set H are capable of hardware-accelerated decoding of 8192x8192 (8k resolution) H.265/HEVC video streamsGeForce GTX 1070, GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1060, NVIDIA TITAN XP, GeForce GTX 1050, GTX 1050 Ti BTW, looks like 416.94 is the latest stable driver. It's the one posters most often report that they've rolled back to, because they have problems with the latest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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