Handbrake 1.0.7 recently released, is a free open source, video transcoder tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. It is also a multi-platform application that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Before we proceed on how to install handbrake on ubuntu, lets take a quick look at handbrake’s key features.
Handbrake Key Features
- You can choose a profile that is optimised for your device, or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions
- Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection
- Can use handbrake cli convert mkv to mp4
- Even more features
- Title / chapter and range selection
- Batch Scan and Queueing of encodes
- Chapter Markers
- Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
- Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
- Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
- Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Denoise, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
- Live Static and Video Preview
Handbrake 1.0.7 Changelog
All platforms/ Video
- Fixed decoding of raw video in Matroska/MKV
- Improved handling of very small amounts of sync jitter (~1 tick)
- Fixed time stamp handling for containerless raw video
- Fixed x265 2-pass encoding where video frame rate is altered by filters
- Improved handling of AVI files with broken indices
- Fixed memory leaks in OpenCL
Audio
- Further refined fix for Libav crash encoding AAC at very high bitrates
Subtitles
- Removed fontconfig dependency on Mac and Windows; libass now uses CoreText/DirectWrite
- Improved subtitle font selection when burning in SRT/SSA subtitles
Command line interface
- Fixed preset subtitle burn defaults override
Build system
- Updated MinGW-w64 build script for improved compatibility with hardened GCC
Linux
- Fixed video preset control not updating
- Fixed application of SRT subtitles offset
- Updated translations: af, cs, ja_JP, ru, sk, sv
- Fixed audio passthru masks not updating until preset save
Windows
- Fixed When Done option not updating/resetting correctly
How to Install HandBrake 1.0.7 on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04
--------- Remove Previous Installation --------- sudo apt remove handbrake && sudo apt autoremove --------- Add the Repository, Update and Install --------- sudo apt-add-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install handbrake-cli handbrake-gtk
How to uninstall HandBrake from Ubuntu
sudo apt remove handbrake && sudo apt autoremove
Launch Handbrake via Unity Dash
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