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Handbrake 0.94 transcodes DVDs even faster
Handbrake, the insanely great multi-platform video transcoder - or "dvd ripper," if you're really being honest - just got its first update in almost a year. The biggest new change is 64-bit support, which means a 10% jump in encoding speed. According to our sister site, TUAW, Mac users don't even need to be running Snow Leopard to get the 64-bit advantage: it also works on OS X 10.5 on 64-bit capable machines.
If you're a fan of the AVI or xVid formats, you're out of luck with this release of Handbrake. These formats have been dropped in favor of pushing H.264. The good news is that you should now be able to rip DVDs in real time, or darn close. There's also a time-saving Live Preview option, so you can check the quality of your rips without waiting until they finish.
[via TUAW]
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Subscribe to commentsViewtiful Jason2Nov 25th 2009 10:30PM
There's only one version of Windows available and it's not denoted as 32 or 64-bit. Does that mean Windows users got shafted by only getting 32-bit?
MeNov 26th 2009 12:41AM
Damn it. Does the Mac have ANY decent video converters left? First Visualhub died and was replaced by two mediocre programs that don't do avi files, and now Handbrake is equally useless.
XenoNov 26th 2009 3:27AM
After using 0.94 I went back to 0.93
XenoNov 26th 2009 3:44AM
I don't have a problem with the new mp4 & mkv exclusive mandate (because I only use mp4 anyway).
My only issue with this new update is that, I usually encode my files with no compression (100%) which worked fine on 0.93, and don't get me wrong it'll work on 0.94 but it won't work on your PS3. I try 99.51% the file comes out with 'high compression' "what!?".
If you don't intend encode at 100% and porting it to a PS3 get 94 otherwise stick with 93.
WilliamNov 27th 2009 12:37PM
Same here; for me the .AVI file format is important, since many of the friends and family I share videos with don't know about codec packs, or haven't upgraded to Windows 7, etc...
motangNov 26th 2009 10:00AM
I was extremely thankful for this release as it works with Ubuntu 9.10. :D
XenoNov 27th 2009 2:40PM
0.94 is faster though, it just doesn't do what I need it to do. Just like 'William' mentioned--.avi is one of the most popular formats out there; by cutting it loose they're making Hand Brake very restrictive.
Oh well, I guess I can continue using 0.93 until 0.95 comes out 'a year from now'.
BugMeNotDec 1st 2009 2:23PM
My set-top player DVD player only supports DIVX/XVID, not H.264, so this new release is USELESS to me (are you listening, devs?)
JeebusDec 4th 2009 11:23PM
> "dvd ripper," if you're really being honest
Well, yeah, except it's useless because it won't copy commercial copy protected DVDs. What's left then? My own home burned videos? Yeah, that's useful.