HandBrake / HandBrake/HandBrake
Preserve Dimensions/Picture Settings when Changing Preset
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Enhancement
- Dominant language
- C
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Description
Description of the feature or enhancement you'd like to see in HandBrake
Allow to override any Dimension Settings from changing presets by preserving what is currently set.
Perhaps a checkbox nearby the crop to "Lock between presets".
What Operating System are you running?
Windows 10 22H2
What version of HandBrake are you running?
Nightly 20251103181644-34bfb83ec-master (2025111001)
Where did you download HandBrake from?
Github
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the behavior in HandBrake's desktop application on Windows 10: change dimension or picture settings, then select another preset and record which values are overwritten. Identify the preset-change handling and picture-settings UI, then define the desired lock behavior and verify that locked settings persist while unlocked settings continue to follow presets.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100