How to install Handbrake 1.0.7 Video Transcoder on Linux

Handbrake 1.0.7 recently released, is a free open source, video transcoder tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. It is also a multi-platform application that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Before we proceed on how to install handbrake on ubuntu, lets take a quick look at handbrake’s key features.

Handbrake Key Features

• You can choose a profile that is optimised for your device, or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions
• Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection
• Can use handbrake cli convert mkv to mp4
• Even more features
  • Title / chapter and range selection
  • Batch Scan and Queueing of encodes
  • Chapter Markers
  • Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
  • Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
  • Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
  • Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Denoise, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
  • Live Static and Video Preview

Handbrake 1.0.7 Changelog

All platforms/ Video

• Fixed decoding of raw video in Matroska/MKV
• Improved handling of very small amounts of sync jitter (~1 tick)
• Fixed time stamp handling for containerless raw video
• Fixed x265 2-pass encoding where video frame rate is altered by filters
• Improved handling of AVI files with broken indices
• Fixed memory leaks in OpenCL

Audio

• Further refined fix for Libav crash encoding AAC at very high bitrates

Subtitles

• Removed fontconfig dependency on Mac and Windows; libass now uses CoreText/DirectWrite
• Improved subtitle font selection when burning in SRT/SSA subtitles

Command line interface

• Fixed preset subtitle burn defaults override

Build system

• Updated MinGW-w64 build script for improved compatibility with hardened GCC

Linux

• Fixed video preset control not updating
• Fixed application of SRT subtitles offset
• Updated translations: af, cs, ja_JP, ru, sk, sv
• Fixed audio passthru masks not updating until preset save

Windows

• Fixed When Done option not updating/resetting correctly

How to Install HandBrake 1.0.7 on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04

--------- Remove Previous Installation ---------
sudo apt remove handbrake && sudo apt autoremove

--------- Add the Repository, Update and Install ---------
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install handbrake-cli handbrake-gtk

How to uninstall HandBrake from Ubuntu

sudo apt remove handbrake && sudo apt autoremove

Launch Handbrake via Unity Dash