HandBrake Open Source video transcoder v0.10 released with hundreds of new features including H.265 and VP8 encoding
The developers of Handbrake just announced the 0.10 update to their extremely popular and useful Open Source video transcoding product. Originally focused on ripping DVDs, the product now can be used for transcribing many different types of files/codecs to almost any other. Today’s headliner updates include H.265 and VP8 encoding.
- The LibAV AAC encoder is now the default as FAAC has been removed.
- This encoder is adequate for most, but until it improves a bit further, we have enabled support for the FDK-AAC encoder also.
- This FDK option is a temporary measure until the LibAV encoder improves.
- Note that FDK-AAC is much slower and will likely bottleneck the encode process, but will produce better quality audio.
- This encoder is adequate for most, but until it improves a bit further, we have enabled support for the FDK-AAC encoder also.
- H.265 encoder
- Using x265 v1.4
- This encoder is still early in it’s development, so is missing many H.265 features and optimisations.
- Added VP8 Encoder (using libvpx)
- Available in MKV files only.
Hit the download button in Handbrake or download here. Full change list below: