HandBrake 1.3.3 arrives with improvements and bug fixes

The new version of HandBrake 1.3.3 has already been released and is available for public download. In this new version, the developers emphasize that include various bug fixes and improvements to the app, in addition to highlighting that support for compilation in Flatpak has been greatly improved.

For those who do not know about this application, they should know that it is geared for multithreaded transcoding of audio and video files, this is a multiplatform application so it can be used in OS X, GNU / Linux and Windows..

HandBrake uses third-party libraries, such as FFmpeg and FAAC. Handbrake it can process most common multimedia files and any source. The program can transcode BluRay / DVD video, copies of the VIDEO_TS directory and any file whose format is compatible with the libavformat and libavcodec libraries of FFmpeg / LibAV. The output can be generated containerized files such as WebM, MP4 and MKV, AV1, H.265, H.264, MPEG-2, VP8, VP9 and Theora codecs can be used for video encoding, for audio - AAC, MP3, AC-3, Flac, Vorbis and Opus.

What's New in HandBrake 1.3.3

This new version of HandBrake 1.3.3, stands out for including several bug fixes, of which among the improvements one of them is for the compatibility with MKV files, Besides that a problem has been fixed that caused the ISO 639-2 / B language codes will not be set correctly, affecting the Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, and Yiddish languages, as well as improving Intel QSV memory space and H.265 memory buffer size, as required by the latest Intel Media SDK.

Another change that stands out in this new version is that support for Flatpak has also been vastly improved, since in this new version the build efficiency of the Intel QSV Flatpak plugin is specially mentioned

Of the other changes that stand out of this version:

• Improved support for sources where the pixel format cannot be quickly identified, for example due to delayed start of the video track
• Added log to identify where hardware support is disabled
• Improved Intel QSV memory footprint when deleting a buffer pool
• Enhanced Intel QSV H.265 memory buffer size as required by new Intel Media SDK
• Fixed and improved Intel QSV in various situations, especially hardware decoding
• Fixed handling of overlapping SSA import subtitles
• Improved support for out-of-service SSA captions as allowed by the specification
• Added a patch to fix libdav1d cross-compilation using GCC 10.x (quality of life improvement)
• Updated libraries: FFmpeg 4.2.3 (decoding and filters)
• Fixed missing E-AC-3 encoder option

Finally, if you want to know more about it, you can check the complete changelog by going to to the following link.

How to install Handbrake on Ubuntu and derivatives from PPA?

For those who are interested in being able to install this new version, they can do so from the application's PPA where we can obtain the application updates in a faster way, than compared to the previous method.

For this we are going to open a terminal and we are going to execute the following commands.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases

We update our list of repositories with:

sudo apt-get update

And finally we install the application with:

sudo apt-get install handbrake

How to install Handbrake from snap?

Now if you don't want to add repositories to your system and you have the support to install applications in snap format, you can install HandBrake with the help of this technology, you just have to open a terminal and execute the following command:

sudo snap install handbrake-jz

If they want to install a release candidate version of the program, they do so using this command:

sudo snap install handbrake-jz --candidate

To install the beta version of the program, use this command:

sudo snap install handbrake-jz --beta

Now if you already have the application installed by this method, to update it just execute this command:

sudo snap refresh handbrake-jz