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Filed under: Video, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware

HandBrake now encodes any video file, not just DVDs

HandBrake
HandBrake is a cross-platform utility for ripping and encoding DVDs in high quality, compressed video formats including XviD and H.264. And the latest version of HandBrake lets you use the powerful application to encode any video file, no DVD required.

There are a handful of other changes as well, including a GUI for the Linux version, improved video quality, and more control over audio tracks. Queued jobs are also saved to your disk so that if Handbrake crashes, you'll be able to recover the list of queued jobs without starting from scratch.

HandBrake 0.9.3 is available for Windows, Linux, and OS X with Intel and PPC versions available for OS X 10.5.

[via TUAW]

Filed under: Audio, Video

CodecInstaller: free program for installing A/V codecs

CodecInstaller
CodecInstaller does exactly what you would think. It installs codecs. Audio codecs, video codecs. All the usual suspects, DivX, XviD, Windows Media, AAC, you name it.

Of course, if you've got a good media player like VLC or ZoomPlayer, you probably don't need a separate program to install these codecs. But CodecInstaller can still come in handy if you want a lightweight program for analyzing audio and video files.

Just click the analyze button at point CodecInstaller at your mystery file. It's not perfect. For example, when we tried to analyze several DivX recordings made using BeyondTV, it could only find info for the audio codec, not the video codec. But if you want to know the bitrate, framerate, codec, or dimensions of that file you downloaded from the interwebs, you might want to give CodecInstaller a try.

[via Lifehacker]

Filed under: Utilities, Video, Macintosh, Freeware

Perian: Play (almost) every video file in QuickTime

PerianHere's one for the Mac folks: Perian is a free download for OS X that allows QuickTime to play video files in almost any format known to man. It uses the fantastic open source ffmpeg library to enable DivX, XviD, AVI, and even Flash Video files in a variety of configurations. According to the Perian web site, it will also be bundled with the next version of Democracy Player. Very cool.

[Via Anarchaia]

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