Filed under: Video, Windows, Macintosh, Linux
Handbrake 0.94 transcodes DVDs even faster
by Jay Hathaway Nov 25th 2009 at 6:30PM
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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Viewtiful Jason2 said 10:30PM on 11-25-2009
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?
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Me said 12:41AM on 11-26-2009
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.
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Xeno said 3:27AM on 11-26-2009
After using 0.94 I went back to 0.93
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Xeno said 3:44AM on 11-26-2009
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.
William said 12:37PM on 11-27-2009
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...
motang said 10:00AM on 11-26-2009
I was extremely thankful for this release as it works with Ubuntu 9.10. :D
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Xeno said 2:40PM on 11-27-2009
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'.
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BugMeNot said 2:23PM on 12-01-2009
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?)
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Jeebus said 11:23PM on 12-04-2009
> "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.
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