HandBrake 0.9.3 är precis släppt och det innehåller en hel del förändringar, större än vad versionnumret antyder. Sedan 0.9.2 har dom gjort över 600 förändringar varav flera hundra buggfixar.
Framförallt så hanterar nu HandBrake all video, inte bara från DVD. På så sätt kan HandBrake delvis ta över där VisualHub lämnat ett tomrum.
Universal input
HandBrake is no longer limited to DVDs: it will now accept practically any type of video as a source. This massive enhancement was achieved by tapping into the power of libavcodec and libavformat from the FFmpeg project.
Video quality
The x264 project has really come into its own this year, and HandBrake 0.9.3 integrates the latest improvements to the H.264 encoding library. Picture quality has enhanced dramatically through the use of psychovisual rate distortion and adaptive quantization, and there have been significant speed optimizations.
Audio flexibility
HandBrake now offers total control over multiple audio tracks.
Audio-video synchronization
HandBrake should now keep lip-synch as well as a DVD player can.
Decomb filter
HandBrake now offers a decomb filter, in the style of AviSynth's. It is a deinterlacer that can be left on all the time without degrading picture quality, because it only deinterlaces video when it visibly needs to be.
Multi-threaded deinterlacing
The "Slow" and "Slower" filters, as well as the new decomb filter, will now take advantage of as many processors as you can throw at them.
"Same as source framerate" really is the same as the source framerate
HandBrake now, by default, passes through the exact video framerate of the source instead of smoothing to a constant rate, which could lead to frames being duplicated or dropped.
