HandBrake: 0.9.2 with more stuff!
February 19, 2008
HandBrake everyones favorite DVD ripping utility has introduced version
0.9.2. The most important upgrade to this version is the full support of AppleTV Take Two, and iPhone/iPodTouch upgrades. Handbrake is as always free and available for
download.
Here's a round up of features:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3) sound in MP4 files, for a true DVD experience on the AppleTV and in Perian.
- Multi-track audio support for Apple devices
- iPhone-compatible anamorphic video at its full size
- Variable frame rate encoding with detelecine filtering
- More flexible, "loose" anamorphic video
- MP4 optimization for progressive web downloads
- Dynamic range compression for encoding from AC3 audio
- Robust program and transport stream support
- A fresher, faster version of x264
- Tuning of FIFO sizes by processor count
- Better handling of audio discontinuities
- Better handling of DVD read errors
- Work-arounds for missing end-of-cell markers
- Recovery when streams have signal loss
- Better synced chapter markers
- Better handling of B-Frames
- No more cutting off the very ends of films
- No more lost subtitles or chapter markers
- No more crashes in 2-pass encoding
The complete list of change are available through HandBrake's
Trac.
As always, the complete list of changes is available on the Trac, as well as a complete timeline of 0.9.2's development.
Labels: HandBrake, Software
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