Install HandBrake 1.0.3 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA

HandBrake 1.0.3 is Available PPA For Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 18.1, Linux Mint 18 Sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca

HandBrake is an open source, free, portable and reliable software project that allows you to convert DVD-Video discs or any other video file from one format to another in an easy and straighforward way. It was originally built for the BeOS operating system, but now runs on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

Features at a glance

Key features include the ability to queue up multiple encoding jobs, support for VFR and CFR, support for chapter and title selection, live video preview, chapter markers, as well as support for average bitrate or constant quality video encoding.

Supports subtitles and video filters

In addition, HandBrake comes with support for various subtitle streams, including SSA, SRT, VobSub and Closed Captions CEA-608, as well as support for video filters, such as deinterlacing, cropping, decomb, scaling, detelecine, grayscale and deblock.

Supports a wide range of video file formats

The application has been designed with usability in mind, which means that it comes with support for a wide range of video file formats, including any DVD-like source (VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or VOB file), encrypted DVDs, MKV, MPG, MP4, MOV, AVI, OGG, FLV and WMV.

Coming a little over a month after the previous point release, HandBrake 1.0.3 is the third in the stable series, bringing a bunch of bug fixes to improve the video and audio performance, but also to address some platform-specific issues and implement a few enhancements that'll make HandBrake the best free video converter utility.

On the video front, the HandBrake 1.0.3 update addresses various issues and memory leaks for libav and OpenCL, improves sync for video streams that usually have a big delay, makes H.264 decoding work even in those cases where the initial GOP was dropped, and improves the 2-pass encoding, including for x265.

Thanks to this new update, the libav library should now be able to open WMV sources, as well as to seek in MKV files that contain embedded subtitles. On the audio front, HandBrake 1.0.3 improves mapping of single channel layouts and libav audio sync with MP4 files that contain edit lists.

A crash that occurred when attempting to encode AAC audio files at very high bitrates with the libav library was also fixed, along with a potential hang in libav during decoding of AAC files. Taking about AAC, HandBrake 1.0.3 makes the audio start point to use edit lists when encoding audio files using the CoreAudio AAC codec.

"Platform-specific changes in HandBrake 1.0.3"

As mentioned before, HandBrake 1.0.3 includes various platform-specific changes, such as a crash on macOS that occurred when attempting to edit a queued job, a crash on GNU/Linux platforms that could occur when attempting to select a video encoder, and improves certain controls to correctly apply values.

For Windows users, the update fixes "Title Specific Scan" for DVD and Blu-ray discs, repairs NLMeans denoise tunes or adds missing ones, and addresses two issues, one that could give an error when attempting to encode files using Intel QuickSync Video and another one where the SRT language code was incorrectly configured.

Install HandBrake 1.0.3 on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10 (PPA) ;

To Install/Update HandBrake 1.0.3 on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 18.1, Linux Mint 18 Sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases

sudo apt-get update

After adding this PPA to your list of repositories (see "Adding this PPA to your system" below), you can install the HandBrake gtk gui with the command:

sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk

And you can install the HandBrake CLI with the command:

sudo apt-get install handbrake-cli

After installation is completed, search handbrake on ubuntu dashboard :