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HandBrake gets some major press
When your open-source project is the focus of a New York Times article, that's a big news day for you (at least it would be if not for those meddling kids in line to buy iPhones). Thursday's NYT article discussing the technical hurdles, legal haziness and other challenges to ripping DVDs for personal use leads off with the example of HandBrake dev lead Eric Petit ('titer') using his very own tool to convert a movie so it'll play on his PSP. The article goes on to mention VisualHub and VideoLan, and quickly dives into an acronym soup of MP4, OGG, AVI and more.What I found most interesting about the story was what it failed to say about the software it featured so prominently: neither HandBrake nor VisualHub were described as Macintosh apps. VisualHub is of course Mac-only, and HandBrake has been historically a Mac tool (after beginning life on BeOS) before forking and unforking as MediaFork with a Windows version in the mix. It's pleasantly surprising to me that this sort of article can be platform-agnostic.
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Matt Croydon said 10:55AM on 6-29-2007
What I find most interesting about this entry is that there was no mention that Handbrake has been a Linux app almost as long as it has been a Mac app (since 0.4 back in 2003).
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Eleventeen said 11:37AM on 6-29-2007
Does Handbrake still use ffmpeg in the background as the main converter?
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Jamus said 2:32PM on 6-29-2007
Given the nature of Handbrake is to allow rips that other apps do not, I am not sure if I like the idea of it getting more press...
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