Install HandBrake 1.1.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 16.04

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.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• liba52 (AC3 decoding)
• libavcodec (picture cropping, scaling and deinterlacing, MPEG-4 encoding)
• libdvdcss (CSS decryption)
• libdvdread (DVD navigation)
• libfaac (AAC encoding)
• libmp3lame (MP3 encoding)
• libmp4v2 (MP4 muxing)
• libmpeg2 (MPEG-2 decoding)
• libogg (OGM muxing)
• libsamplerate (audio resampling)
• libvorbis (Vorbis encoding)
• libx264 (H264 encoding)
• libxvidcore (MPEG-4 encoding)

What's new in HandBrake 1.1.1 :

All platforms:
General:
- Fixed a potential crash in the comb detection filter
- Fixed a potential crash in the padding filter
Video:
- Fixed decoding certain very high bit rate ultra-high definition sources with extra large packets
- Fixed last frame in source video missing in output
Audio:
- Fixed crash when decoding an empty audio track
Build system:
- Updated mac-toolchain-build script Nasm url and improved curl parameters for robustness
Third-party libraries:
- Updated libraries (necessary to pull in needed bug fixes)
- libvpx 1.7.0 (VP8/VP9 video encoding)
- x264 155 r2901 (H.264/AVC video encoding)
Linux:
- Fixed Ubuntu PPA build date
- Fixed a display issue with the quality slider control
- Fixed issues occurring when running multiple HandBrake instances simultaneously
- Updated Russian translation
- Updated support for creating Flatpak bundles (experimental)
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
Mac:
- Fixed corrupted output with VP8 and VP9 encoders
- Fixed building x264 using Clang and -march=native/-mavx (thanks H. Gramner for the upstream patch)
Windows:
- Fixed issues with queue recovery when running multiple HandBrake instances simultaneously
- Fixed an issue with a When Done action potentially causing the last queue item to be marked as a warning instead of success
- Fixed burn-in behavior with MP4 files; after the first burn-in track, no additional tracks that require burn-in will be added
- Improved window resize behavior for Add Selection to Queue dialog and allowed space bar to toggle checkbox for selected row
- Improved tabbing behavior in various circumstances
- Improved adding a new preset with the same name as an existing user preset; the existing preset will now be updated properly
- Improved privacy by adding an option to disable the Summary tab preview image
- Updated installer to block installation on 32-bit systems to avoid confusion (unsupported since 1.1.0)
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Install HandBrake 1.1.1 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint :

To install HandBrake 1.1.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 'Bionic Beaver' and Ubuntu 16.04 'Xenial Xerus' with PPA launchpad, open terminal and follow this command :

The following instructions are for Ubuntu. They may also work on other deb-compatible distributions. For other Linux, please compile from the official source code.

From the command line, add the official releases PPA to your system.

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

sudo apt-get update

If you prefer HandBrake’s nightly builds, add the official git-snapshots PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-git-snapshots

sudo apt-get update

Install HandBrake.

sudo apt-get install handbrake-cli handbrake-gtk

Run HandBrakeCLI to use HandBrake on the command line.

Run ghb to launch HandBrake’s graphical user interface. You may wish to right-click on the icon and select “Lock to Launcher” for easy access in the future.