Summary
HandBrake, everyone’s favorite free and open-source video converter, just got a big update. In its first update in seven months, the latest Handbrake v1.10 for Windows, Mac, and Linux gets even better presets for Discord users, Linux-specific improvements, and a load of bug fixes.
The new update improved Handbrake’s already excellent sharing presets, which makes it easy to preset a specific file size or type for encoding and sharing online. With the latest update to version 1.10, there’s a new “Social 10MB” preset built with Discord users in mind.
The idea here is to allow for small, short, sharable videos that work with Discord’s 10MB free user size limit. Handbrake says this is similar to the 25MB presets released in 2024. For example, you may easily convert clips of up to 30 seconds, 1 minute, and 2 minutes into a shareable 10MB file size limit. Here’s what Handbrake had to say: “The slow x264 encoder preset helps squeeze a bit more quality out of these lower bit rates, making a small but noticeable improvement in edge artifacts, especially for complex objects surrounded by flat areas, e.g., a plane in the sky.”
Handbrake 1.10 also adds an option to let users choose the encoder color range, the ability to disable Dolby Vision and HDR10+ passthru in CLI, and an easier way to disable subtitle track and audio track name passthru. Then, as expected, the update has a whole host of bug fixes, performance improvements, and quality-of-life tweaks.
According to the changelog, Handbrake users will also notice improved framerate shaper metrics during high-res frames, EAC3 + Atmos being properly signaled in MP4, and a big fix where burning bitmap subtitles caused Handbrake to crash. Then, here are a few other upgrades according to the team:
If you’re a Linux user, this latest version addresses a few issues. The update fixes a well-known queue removal crash, proper Opus and Vorbis passthru validation in WebM, and presets for unavailable hardware encoders being hidden by default.
Last year, Handbrakeadded support for lossless VP9 encodingand Intel’s Quick Sync video hardware decoder, among other things, and this new version 1.10 builds on that with even more goodies.
As usual, you candownload HandBrakefor Windows, Mac, and Linux from the official websites. There are instructions on installing Handbrake v1.10 on Ubuntu, which isn’t as easy as on other platforms. As a reminder, it’s always a good idea to clear your encoding queue and save any custom presets before updating, as some of those could be lost or may not be compatible with newer versions of the software.
