1.6.1

[sr55]

Upgrade Notice

Before updating HandBrake, please make sure there are no pending encodes in the queue, and be sure to make a backup of any custom presets and app preferences you have, as they may not be compatible with newer versions.

Windows users, please make sure to install Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime version 6.0.x. Read carefully: you need the DESKTOP runtime. You must install .NET 6 even if you have installed .NET 7.

HandBrake 1.6.1

All platforms

Video

• Fixed a potential decoder issue that could cause desync with audio (HB CLI 1.6.0: audio not in sync with video #4788, HB CLI 1.6.0: Artefacts at beginning of video #4789)

Command line interface

• Fixed inability to name external subtitles tracks using --subname

Mac

• Fixed behavior of quality slider when changing encoders

Linux

• Fixed translations missing updates as part of 1.6.0 ([LinuxGUI] Update some locales #4790)
  • Bulgarian (Български)
  • Corsican (Corsu)
  • Dutch (Nederlands)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • Spanish (Español)
• Fixed (partially) Intel QSV hardware detection (Cannot use QSV on v1.6 #4768)
• Fixed a potential crash when canceling an Intel QSV encode (handbrake crashes when a running job cancelled #4341)
• Fixed building with -Werror=format-security by adding missing format strings where needed

Windows

• Fixed quality slider not allowing negative values for encoders supporting them
• Fixed issues upgrading presets from older versions (Presets w/ Custom/No cropping setting revert to Automatic cropping on update #4820)
• Fixed a potential graphical interface hang when stopping the queue (Soft Crash on Queue Stop in 1.6 #4782)
• Fixed optical disc drives on the source selection pane not scanning correctly (DVD's scan fail in 1.6.0 and nightly builds, Blu-rays are in Ok in nightly build #4771)
• Fixed erroneous display of 2-pass check box for Intel QSV AV1 encoder (not yet supported) (Intel QSV AV1 not working - 2 pass showing incorrectly #4777)
• Fixed a build configuration issue that broke version 1.6.0 for Windows on arm64
• Fixed an issue that prevented NVDEC from being available
• Fixed passthru audio erroneously falling back to encoding (HB Win 1.6.0 - preset loads AC3 instead of AC3 Passthrough #4795)
• Fixed the Save New Preset button incorrectly overwriting recently added presets (Save New Preset: saves duplicate #4804)

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This discussion was created from the release 1.6.1.

[jimmythetrumpet]

I am interested in mking use of the MSI for deployment of Handbrake, but I am struggling to find it in the repository for download? Would omeone be able to point me in the right direction?

[sr55]

There isn't an MSI provided for the 1.6 series.

the MSI installer was put on hold until the due to problems with the upstream framework it was based on.

For now, for deployments, I'd recommend maybe taking the zip package, or running the .exe in silent mode. (/S if I remember correctly)

We may eventually go MSIX instead.

WinGet is an option but note that this is managed by a 3rd party at the present time.

[jimmythetrumpet]

OK, thanks for the update. For now I guess I will make my own custom MSI for deployment through Group Policy, basing it on the actions taken by the NSIS installer script as a reference point for capture.

Hopefuly an MSI installer can be reintroduced in the future, I know those of us who maintain large networks would find it useful!