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                                 HandBrake 1.8

   Agen Schmitz

   The HandBrake Team has issued version 1.8 of its open-source video
   conversion program [1]HandBrake with macOS-specific improvements. The
   release adds a Dolby Vision and HDR10+ dynamic metadata pass-through
   for VideoToolbox H.265 10-bit, introduces Metal-accelerated Comb Detect
   and Framerate Shaper filters, enables you to drop SRT and ASS subtitle
   files directly onto the main window, adds a preference to pause encodes
   when switching to battery, and reworks notification options to allow
   per-encode or per-queue control. HandBrake 1.8 also removes timestamp
   jitters when using a constant NTSC frame rate in the MP4 container,
   improves Decomb speed by removing unneeded frame copies, and fixes
   burn-in of SSA/ASS subtitles inside MKV files. (Free, 41.4 MB,
   [2]release notes, macOS 10.13+)

References

   1. https://handbrake.fr/
   2. https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/releases

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