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HandBrake 0.9.3


HandBrake Open source, free, multi-platform, and multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter

System Requirememts
Mac OS X 10.5.0 or later
Download Details
Company Eric Petit
Version 0.9.3
Post Date October 06, 2009
License Freeware
File Size 6.1 MB
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HandBrake 0.9.3


Open source, free, multi-platform, and multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter
HandBrake has been originally available on the BeOS platform, but now has been ported over to Mac OS X and to GNU/Linux.


Main features of HandBrake:

Supported sources:
  • Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software), and some .VOB and .TS files
  • PAL or NTSC
  • AC-3, DTS, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks

    Outputs:
  • File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
  • Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
  • Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

    Misc features:
  • Chapter selection
  • Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
  • Integrated bitrate calculator
  • Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
  • Grayscale encoding


    Limitations of HandBrake:

  • Does not handle DTS audio tracks
  • Does not handle single VOB files or any other file format

    What's New in This Release:

  • Better PMT processing
  • Basic underlying support for live previews (encode from a seek point for a set number of frames)
  • Better searching for IDR frames in H.264 streams
  • Preset changes (iPhone goes CRF, some old Apple presets resurrected as Legacy)
  • Assorted bug fixes