HandBrake 0.9.9

Handbrake - (Open Source)

Creating mp4 files or MKV DVD content is a very easy task with HandBrake.

HandBrake is mainly intended to generate MKV format from a DVD, or mp4 files. It allows to easily compress the DVD video from the hard disk including destination devices like iPod , iPhone, the PSP or AppleTV to standard MPEG-4 and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) format. After detecting the source, the software interface has several tabs to adjust video parameters (codec, resolution, bitrate, approximate size of the video), audio ( track use, mixing), chapters in case of creation of a file that manages also advanced options for x264 files.

The software can use a choice of ffmpeg or XviD to encode the DVD. If the movie is on DVD, HandBrake will take care of the copy from the hard drive, but it may very well accept compress DVD already extracted to a folder. The video output format can be of MP4, AVI or OGM.

The application also allows to select one or two audio tracks. The encoding of these tracks can be made to AAC, MP3 or OGG format. It is possible to deinterlace the source, crop the image and of course resize or superimpose subtitles on the image.

HandBrake software has a clean and simple interface, being pretty easy to handle, but it can also be used for more advanced manipulation.

Title:: HandBrake 0.9.9
File Size:: 13.2 MB
Requirements:: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / Windows7 / Windows8
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 02 Jun 2013
Publisher:: Handbrake
Homepage:: http://www.handbrake.fr
MD5 Checksum:: 863C73B8DDCB04AE2DF66F59A4354519

# General
* Improved HandBrake pineapple icon by Matt Johnson
* Improved Retina-resolution icons within the application
# Core
* Blu-ray (PGS) subtitle support
- works with Foreign Audio Search
- can be Burned-In
- can be passed through to MKV (but not MP4)
* Additional video framerates
- 30, 50, 59.94, 60 fps
* Double framerate ("bob") mode for the deinterlace and decomb filters
* Better audio remix support
- additional mixdowns: 6.1, 7.1, 7.1 (5F/2R/LFE)
> CLI users should note 6ch becomes 5point1
- better-than-Stereo sources can be upmixed to 5.1
- discard one channel from Stereo sources
> Mono (Left Only), Mono (Right Only)
* Allow the selection of higher audio bitrates where appropriate
* Allow the selection of lower audio samplerates where appropriate
- 8, 11.025, 12, 16 kHz
* Audio dithering (TPDF) when converting to 16-bit FLAC
* Use libavcodec for DTS audio decoding (instead of libdca)
- DTS-ES 6.1 Discrete support
* All graphical interfaces: support for x264's preset, tune and profile options
- alternative to the Advanced panel (which is still available)
- HandBrake-specific option to ensure compliance with a specific H.264 level
* Updated built-in presets
- take advantage of x264 preset/tune/profile support
- removed increasingly suboptimal and irrelevant Legacy presets
* Assorted bug fixes and improvements to the core library (libhb)
* Updated libraries
- x264 r2273-b3065e6
- Libav v9.6
- libbluray 0.2.3
# Windows
* User Interface has been re-written in WPF
- Includes many small UI enhancements
* Switched to .NET 4 Client Profile
- smaller download for those who don't have .NET 4 Full installed