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.

The great team at HandBrake, the open-source, glp licensed, dvd to mpeg converter, has release verion 0.9.1. The purpose behind this latest update is all about stability. 0.9.0 wasn't the perfected application they had hoped, and 0.9.1 rectifies these stability issues and brings us a few more options.

We think the new 'prettier' interface suites the application well. It is very intuitive, even for the newbs out there. The advanced options such as reference frames, motion estimation, and de-blocking give the most advanced videophile a grin on their face. If you fancy yourself as an amateur videophile like myself, I would stick with the basics, and slowly start playing with the advances stuff.

Additional improvements in this release include performance enhancements, color subtitles, subtitle support, case senstive naming, larger buffers, and fixing the target size. For a complete list of changes you can check the trac log.

We personally love the improvement to the close captioning and we also encourage application to improve their performance. Especially when tit comes to something like compressing and converting movies. The download is available now at a whopping 5.5MB for OS-X.

Handbrake has released 0.9.0 their latest in their DVD-Ripping software. The first thing to notice in this release is an improved interface. But once you start ripping you'll start to notice the hidden changes.



Picture quality has been dramatically improved through "image scaling, deinterlacing, and several filters for denoising, deblocking, inverse telecine, and new presets devoted to high quality settings." x264 and ffmpeg have also been updated which should improve speeds.

Moving on, you will also see new presets for the iPhone and PSP. DTS is also now supported as an audio source, and introduced some limited support for .VOB and .TS files. Also satisfying a popular request, HandBrake can now export to MKV files.

Other features, as if this wasn't enough, include supporting MP4 files larger then 4GB, countless bug fixes, audio drop and mp2 stability improvement.

0.9.0 weight in at 5.9MB for 10.4 and can be downloaded from their site.