Release 1.6.0 · HandBrake/HandBrakeGeneral
Added AV1 video encoding
Added high bit depth and color depth support to various encoders and filters
Added 4K AV1 General, QSV (Hardware), and MKV (Matroska) presets
Added 4K HEVC General presets and updated related presets to use similar encoder settings
Revised Web presets and renamed to Creator, Email, and Social
Removed VP8 presets
The VP8 video encoder is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release
Related, the Theora encoder is long deprecated and will be removed in a future release
Miscellaneous other preset revisions
Video
Added SVT-AV1 (software) and Intel QSV AV1 (hardware) video encoders
Added VP9 10-bit encoder
Added NVENC HEVC 10-bit encoder
Added VCN HEVC 10-bit encoder
Added H.264 levels 6, 6.1, and 6.2 for the x264 encoder
Added H.264/H.265 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 profiles for the x264 and x265 encoders
Added H.265 4:2:2 profile for VideoToolbox encoder on Apple Silicon
Added support for Intel Deep Link Hyper Encode (leverage multiple QSV media engines to increase performance)
Fixed longstanding issue where slowest NVENC encoder preset caused encoding failures
Removed support for Intel CPUs older than 6th generation (Skylake) when using Intel Quick Sync Video
Link: github.com Ein sehr großer release! Wer sich bis jetzt noch nicht an AV1 herangetraut hat, ist jetzt in Handbrake implementiert.
Diesen Sommer hat mich bei ein paar von meinen Aufnahmen das banding so sehr gestört, dass man ab jetzt, mit allen relevanten codecs 10-bit encoden kann.