HandBrake 1.9.1 Released

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Upgrade Notice

Before updating HandBrake, please make sure there are no pending encodes in the queue, and be sure to make a backup of any custom presets and app preferences you have, as they may not be compatible with newer versions.

Windows users, please make sure to install Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime version 8.0
Download available from Microsoft:

• For x64 (AMD or Intel CPUs)
• For Arm64 (Qualcomm or other)

HandBrake 1.9.1

All platforms

General

• Fixed FFV1 pixel format selection when an hardware decoder is used (Handbrake 1.9.0 converts all files to 16bit when using FFV1 #6565)
• Fixed an issue that could happen when chapters titles are not UTF-8 (HandBrake doesn't scanning a source correctly even it's supported #6489)
• Fixed gcc14 aarch64 build failures (build: fix gcc14 aarch64 build failure #6463)

Subtitles

• Improved support for SRT files with overlapping subtitles (Subtitle Mutilated During Re-encode (Coversion to ASS) #6155)

Audio

• Fixed AC3 and EAC3 extradata in MKV (Audio AAC 5.1 to AC3 5.1 plex firstick not readable #6582)

Third-party libraries

• nv-codec-headers: Harden DLL loading so that it only uses system32 for the search path on Windows (nv-codec-headers: Harden DLL loading #6548)

• Updated libraries

  • libdav1d 1.5.1 (AV1 video decoding)
  • HarfBuzz 10.2.0 (subtitles)
  • libjpeg-turbo 3.1.0 (preview image compression)

Windows

• Fix an issue with the autoname function not updating when title is the only option (Output filename does not update when selecting title if {source} is not included in template #6517)
• Fix an issue where the audio encoder may not display correctly after a queue has been imported and queue item edited. This may exhibit in other scenarios as well (Names of all audio codecs disappear when you edit a job from the queue #6524)
• Fix an issue with titlebar / taskbar progress erroneously showing with multi-instance encodes (Batch progress bar missing in system taskbar after upgrading to 1.9.0 #6477)
• Fix a crash when importing chapters where there is a chapter count mis-match (Error when importing more chapters than are in the original file #6514)
• Fixed an issue with autoname pre/postfix option where it would apply regardless of file path collision.
• Fixed an issue where the crop controls would not enable correctly when editing jobs (minor HB 182 UI problem: Dimensions tab, Top/Bottom/Left/Right crop values remain greyed out when using Edit on HB-queue entry with "custom" crop setting #6614)

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This discussion was created from the release 1.9.1.