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Handbrake reaches maturity and leaves beta state

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Surely many of our readers know the HandBrake application or have heard about it, it is a very popular open source video encoding tool that is used to convert video files to other formats and also to evaluate the power of processors at be able to take full advantage of all its capabilities.

HandBrake 1.0.0 is the first final version after 13 years

HandBrake was born in 2003 and since then many builds have been released but none of them had left the beta state, finally after 13 years HandBrake has reached maturity in its final version 1.0.0. The application is very complete for video and audio encoding tasks in different formats, it allows us to create new audio files with levels of quality and custom size from various original sources such as DVD or Blu Ray. Among its output formats we find some as popular as Apple TV, iPod, PSP and many more.

HandBrake is characterized by being able to take advantage of the multi-thread capabilities of the processors to offer great performance, which is why it was one of the tests used by AMD at the New Horizon event to show the capabilities of its new Ryzen processor. Its new final version promises to be even better by adding some new features such as VP9 encoding through the libvpx library, improvements to x264 and x265, library and interface updates.

Source: 5to9mac

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