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HandBrake 0.9.4 Released
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 11:57 PM EST
Posted by: Glenn
The HandBrake team has announced the release of HandBrake 0.9.4, an update to their popular video converter. The big news with this release is a new build system that allows 64-bit binaries. According to the developers, 64-bit builds tend to perform approximately 10% better than their 32-bit brethren. It also includes a new feature called Live Preview, which enables you to encode a small sequence of video, so that you can check out how it will look after processing. Other improvements in this release include the following:
Soft subtitles and Closed Captions
 DVD Closed Captions
ATSC Closed Captions
SRT subtitle import
Text soft subtitles in MP4 and MKV output
Bitmap soft subtitles in MKV output
Better support for DVD inputs
Uses libdvdnav
DVD angles support
Workaround for libdvdread malloc bomb on invalid PGC entry
DVD drive region detection support in Linux
Handles DVD programs with more than 16 streams
No longer tries to detect and discard duplicate titles when scanning
Libdvdnav patched to perform read error recovery
Libdvdread patched to allow raw device access in Windows
Handles poorly mastered DVDs that had the menus ripped out of them
Better support for non-DVD inputs
Preserves MP4 metadata
TrueHD
DTS-HD demuxing
8 bit audio
Better handling of transport streams where audio starts first
Better handling of transport streams that have been spliced together, leading to duplicate timestamps
Better VC-1 frame detection
Fixes bug that was causing one sec. of audio to be dropped on many ffmpeg files
Looks harder for aspect ratio info from DV sources
No longer truncates the last (dummy) chapter
Allows specifying field parity for detelecine and decomb
Miscellaneous
Better AV sync
Support for sources with no audio
DTS passthrough for MKV
x264 bumped from r1169 to r1347, which means speed optimizations, new default settings (see r2742 commit comment), the magic of macroblock tree rate control (mbtree), a new CRF curve (meaning you will get different, generally lower bitrates at the same RF, with similar quality metrics), and weighted P-Frames (disabled by default for Baseline encodes and the AppleTV preset.
Better sample interleaving
Better, optional deinterlacer for decomb (EEDI2)
New mode structure for the decomb filter
Variable verbose logging levels
Fixed timing for first two frames coming out of filters
Libtheora bumped to 1.1.0
Improvements to our theora implementation (2 pass encoding + soft target rate control)
Caters to Theora's insistence on content having mod16 framing dimensions specified
Flushes LAME encoder's final packets
Fixed interjob framerate calculation
Fixed pthreads regression in cygwin
Tweaks for packaging tools
New subtitle tab
New filters and picture settings inspector
Custom anamorphic mode
Updated Sparkle
Custom number of preview images
Quality slider now works off actual rate factor/quantizer values instead of percentages
Partially updated advanced x264 tab
New built-in presets
Use libdvdnav by default on DVD sources
Removed Constant QP encoding option for x264 (use CRF)
Various bug fixes and UI tweaks
x264 turbo 1st pass mode now uses subme=2 not subme=1
Core Audio AAC encoding
H.264 video source decoding crash fixed
Queue displays varying row heights based on encode settings
Fixed EyeTV package scanning
64bit / 32 bit VLC detection
Preset import/export
HandBrake 0.9.4 weighs in at 5.5MB and requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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