Filed under: Software, Video, iPhone
Handbrake 0.9 released with speed, quality enhancements and more
Handbrake, the reigning king of effortless DVD conversion software, has received a major update to v0.9.0. New in this version is a "re-envisioned" interface for the Mac OS X version (as well as a completely rebuilt UI for Windows), and picture quality has been improved quite a bit through new effects, filters and deinterlacing techniques. Overall speed has also been boosted, and you no longer have to customize your encoding settings for the iPhone, thanks to new presets that simplify the process.Altogether, nearly 300 changes were made for this new version, so head on over and give it a spin.
Thanks Jim
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
dinesh said 6:25PM on 8-19-2007
Awesome! keep up the great work!
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Chip said 6:33PM on 8-19-2007
The HandBrake Devs are GODS!
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Will Croft said 6:35PM on 8-19-2007
Anyone having trouble downloading this in Safari should note Safari sees the MIME type wrongly and so adds a .bz2 archive extension to the file name. When downloaded, remove the .bz2 and mount the .dmg.
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Matt said 6:46PM on 8-19-2007
Woo the server is down. Does anyone have a link to a mirror that hosts the file?
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Hawkman said 6:49PM on 8-19-2007
Please don't post links to the mirrors - you'll just take those down, too, and then the people who've donated their bandwidth for this won't do it again!
I know it's painful, but maybe try to come back to it later when the initial rush has died down.
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lhasapso said 6:51PM on 8-19-2007
Does anyone know what's the difference between this and MacTheRipper, and which one is better?
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Matt said 6:53PM on 8-19-2007
Mactheripper just de-encrypts the dvd and copies it to your hdd in the raw mpg format whereas handbrake de-encrypts and compresses the dvd to a file that is compatible with a range of devices and is small enough to keep on your HDD for awhile
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Mikw said 6:58PM on 8-19-2007
I don't think this site can be brought down, since it's purpose is to handle a high amount of visitors on a daily basis. http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/12987/handbrake
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lhasapso said 7:03PM on 8-19-2007
Thanks, I think I'll use Handbrake.
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Hawkman said 7:04PM on 8-19-2007
@Mikw: Unfortunately, all the Download link from MacUpdate etc does is direct you to m0k.org - which is having issues with Apache's connections being maxed out. So same issue. The only real answer is to be patient :)
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Adriel Kloppenburg said 7:34PM on 8-19-2007
I have a 2TB cap on my bandwidth for each month so you can share around this link as it is on my own host.
And I never even get close to 2TB :)
Share around...
www.adriels.com/files/HandBrake-0.9.0-MacOSX.4_GUI_UB.dmg
Adriel
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andrew harrison said 7:44PM on 8-19-2007
@Hawkman: not true at all. Just downloaded from MacUpdate via their own mirror.
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andrew harrison said 7:51PM on 8-19-2007
WOW the UI is much improved over whatever version I was using previously.
too bad they are still using that horrible icon. thank goodness for the replacement icon, which is much much nicer. [http://dl.qj.net/index.php?pg=12&fid=8616&catid=36, original site is down for maintenance]
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JkEw said 8:07PM on 8-19-2007
Thanks Adriel :-)
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michas_pi said 8:15PM on 8-19-2007
300 changes?
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SPAAAAAAAAARTAAAAA!
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anonymous said 8:18PM on 8-19-2007
Still waiting for adaptive deinterlacing to be implemented into Handbrake (or in any Mac DVD player/encoder app for that matter...)
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Hawkman said 8:18PM on 8-19-2007
@ andrew harrison: It was true when I wrote it. Not any more. :)
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Hawkman said 8:20PM on 8-19-2007
@16: yadif and mcdeint not good enough for ya?
Sorry about the double post, missed this the first time.
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Adriel Kloppenburg said 8:59PM on 8-19-2007
@ JkEw, no problem, always happy to help out.
Also I got a snap shot of there new site before it went down, well it is different from what it was a week ago.
http://www.adriel.co.nz/files/Download-at-HandBrake-1.png
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Joe Angrisano said 9:08PM on 8-19-2007
Very nice, though I still wish they'd replace that ugly pineapple icon with Model Concept's Icon:
http://samuraicoder.net/handbrake_replacement_icon
It's so much nicer than the built in icon and its a pain to keep replacing it on my own every time they do an update.
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