Friday, August 24, 2007

Handbrake 0.9.0 - Convert DVD to Compressed Format

Handbrake 0.9.0 (Windows, Open Source, 3.98MB) [download via FileForum] is a utility that can convert standard DVD's into a compressed format of your choice. mp4 with AAC audio or AVC with h264 video and AAC audio. It also lets you crop the image to get rid of the black bars to bring down the size even more and lets you choose options as to how you want it encoded.

Also available for Linux and Mac OS X.

Changes:

  • User experience is improved through a re-envisioned Mac interface and a Windows interface that's been rebuilt from the ground up
  • Picture quality is improved through better image scaling, better deinterlacing, new filters for denoising, deblocking, inverse telecine, and new presets devoted to high quality settings
  • Speed improvements due to updated copies of x264 and ffmpeg. This includes improved multi-threaded encoding for the iPod
  • Compatibility is improved through new presets for devices like the iPhone and PSP. As well, HandBrake now supports DTS as an audio source and has limited support for .VOB and .TS file containers as input. Most excitingly, HandBrake can now output to the M
  • Stability has been improved due to countless bug fixes

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