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HandBrake 0.9.2 released; includes full support for Apple TV 2.0, iPhone, iPod touch

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 · 4:26 pm · 25 Comments

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. HandBrake 0.9.2 incorporates many major and exciting changes, including full support for the Apple TV 2.0 and the latest iPhone/iPod Touch firmware. Mac users take note: this release is only compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

Features include:
• 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

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25 Comments

poo

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 5:28 pm · Reply

No cutting off the ends of films is a “Feature”?
nekogami13

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 5:34 pm · Reply

You don’t think not missing the end of a film isn’t a feature or selling point?
Wandering joe

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 5:35 pm · Reply

Sounds like a good feature to me!
The Dude

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 5:50 pm · Reply

I am glad that they have AC3 support in the MP4 container personally. No more workaround needed to play in iTunes. Was making AVI files and save a reference of the AVI as a .MOV file so iTunes would accept it. Makes my life a little easier now.

And, uh, yeah… not clipping the end of the movie off is a MAJOR plus too! lol

The Dude abides.
The Dude

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 5:52 pm · Reply

ohh, and movies like “Pearl Harbor”… the clipping should begin at the start of the movie. Save the hard drive space.

The Dude abides.
Ampar

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 5:52 pm · Reply

“Recovery when streams have signal loss”

That could be real handy if you frequently black out while urinating.
chanM

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 6:45 pm · Reply

“That could be real handy if you frequently black out while urinating.”

That’s hilarious!
BC

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 6:47 pm · Reply

Even though this program can encode in 5.1 I cannot get Apple TV to use it. Am I missing a step in the procedure. I thought the new version 2.0 software might be able to decode the encoded files but its not. Besides this I think the video output from this program is excellent.
amended

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 7:19 pm · Reply

from extended article list of features
• Snappier
@BC

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 7:34 pm · Reply

I had luck sending the audio through the toslink.
Jubei

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 7:52 pm · Reply

@BC

Are you using HDMI to your receiver? You still need a receiver to decode the DD tracks, just like DD encoded DVDs. Toslink or HDMI to Receiver capable of decoding DD. Otherwise if you don’t have such a setup, then do AC3 + AAC for you encodes.
Synthmeister

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 8:00 pm · Reply

“Recovery when streams have signal loss”

I don’t black out but dang it, I wish I had the pressure of my four-year-old.
bildad

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 8:56 pm · Reply

@Ampar
You made me spew coke all over my display and keyboard. SOL.
LordRobin

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 9:16 pm · Reply

0.9.1? This thing has been around for years, and it’s still at version 0? What the hell is it with shareware developers and their irrational fear of v1.0? If you can’t trust your software enough, after YEARS of development, to take it out of beta, then I want nothing to do with it.

——RM
BC

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 10:54 pm · Reply

@Jubei
Thanks for your response. Yes I’m running an HDMI to my receiver that can decode a variety of surround sound coding. I encode using AC3 and 6 channel discrete. I’ve also encoded using the AC3 and dolby pro logic II setting to see if that made a difference but it doesn’t seem to make a difference. One final note will LFE not be encoded.
peach picker

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 11:24 pm · Reply

But does it support the elgato H.264 Turbo hardware accellerator?
Ampar

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 11:27 pm · Reply

To chanM, bildad, Synthmeister: Don’t change, you crazy kids.

“I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.”
- Jack Handey
marcus aurelius

Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 12:17 am · Reply

Is anybody else having the problem of movies previously ripped from 0.9.1 no longer working on iPhone? Once I upgraded to 1.1.3 and tried to put some more movies on my phone, I get an error saying that it can’t be played on iPhone or something. What’s the deal?
Psycho

Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 2:40 am · Reply

Still only converting dvd’s? No sale.
I can download DVD’s faster from usenet than that I handbreak them. This handbreak tool needs to be expanded so it can convert more than just DVD’s. How about xvid/divx? How about telestreams?
Andy

Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 8:27 am · Reply

There’s already a program like that. VisualHub.
Handbrake should stick to DVDs in my opinion, and possibly Blu-Ray in the future. I have yet to see any application that can so effortlessly rip a DVD yet deliver the same quality results.

Converting existing xvids/divx/wmv files or other already conpressed files will greatly reduce the quality, and that can already be done with visualhub.
Cubert

Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 10:38 am · Reply

“More flexible, “loose” anamorphic video”

Lindsay Lohan?

After a hard night of coke and booze?
OpJ

Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 10:40 am · Reply

Psycho: No sale? Dumbfsck–it is a free program. How retarded are you?

For video file conversion there’s visualhub, and also isquint which is a free version with fewer options.

Guess isquint is no sale for you either.
Cubert

Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 10:58 am · Reply

@peach picker,

“But does it support the elgato H.264 Turbo hardware accellerator?”

I don’t know but I think my girlfriend just bought one of those things last night to replace her silver bullet that died.
Cubert

Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 11:01 am · Reply

“[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "The Dude" for the heads up.]“

The Dude abides.
Tom V

Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 11:06 am · Reply

I heard if I get the TK-421 chip installed it can bump it up another 3-4 quads per channel… But thats technical talk.