HandBrake-SVT-AV1-Essential

August 4, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

Purpose of the project

This project contains the patches needed to replace SVT-AV1 with SVT-AV1-Essential inside HandBrake.
In addition, using GitHub Actions, nightly build of patched executables will be released.

Instructions to patch/build

  • Run patch.sh on linux. The script will patch the previously cloned HandBrake repo. If you want to also clone it you can use --clone argument.
  • Compile for the desired platform using the commands provided on the HandBrake wiki (BSD, Linux, Mac, Windows)

Downloads and Build Status

Operating SystemDownloadBuild Status *1
WindowsDownloadWindows Build
macOSDownloadmacOS build
Linux (Flatpak)DownloadFlatpak Build
UbuntuDownloadFlatpak Build
Arch LinuxDownloadFlatpak Build

*1 Please note that if a build is marked as failed, previous builds may still be available for download!

Testing

Help for testing on all platforms would be helpful.

Contributing

I'm looking for people more acquainted than I am with Handbrake's code to implement some -Essential features to the GUI like support for the --quality presets

Special thanks

A special thanks to vincejv (Docker container for HandBrake) from which I took inspiration for some patches.