HandBrake

Where HandBrake keeps its logs

HandBrake logs to ~/Library/Application Support/HandBrake/logs/ on macOS.

HandBrake logs to ~/.config/ghb/encode.log on Linux.

Paths are printed exactly as HandBrake writes them. Environment variables like %LOCALAPPDATA% and $XDG_STATE_HOME are never expanded, so a path can be pasted straight into a shell. Where a path differs between installer types or shipping flavours, each one is racked as its own card below - why that happens.

Finding your way around macOS and Linux.