mac-kurzundgut: HandBrake 0.9.4 - Versatile video encoder; convert any source to MPEG-4 and more. (Free)

Mittwoch, 25. November 2009

HandBrake 0.9.4 - Versatile video encoder; convert any source to MPEG-4 and more. (Free)

HandBrake 0.9.4 - Versatile video encoder; convert any source to MPEG-4 and more. (Free): "

HandBrake 0.9.4

HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded video encoding tool.

Supported Sources:

Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files

Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

Outputs:

File format: MP4 and MKV

Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)

Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 and DTS pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Misc features:

Chapter selection

Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)

Integrated bitrate calculator

Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling

Grayscale encoding

WHAT'S NEW

Version 0.9.4:

New build system, allowing 64-bit binaries (around 10% faster)
Soft subtitles and Closed Captions:
- DVD Closed Captions
- ATSC Closed Captions
- SRT subtitle import
- Text soft subtitles in MP4 and MKV output
- Bitmap soft subtitles in MKV output
Better support for DVD inputs:
- Uses libdvdnav
- DVD angles support
- Workaround for libdvdread malloc bomb on invalid PGC entry
- DVD drive region detection support in Linux
- Handles DVD programs with more than 16 streams - No longer tries to detect and discard duplicate titles when scanning
- Libdvdnav patched to perform read error recovery
- Libdvdread patched to allow raw device access in Windows
- Handles poorly mastered DVDs that had the menus ripped out of them
Better support for non-DVD inputs:
- Preserves MP4 metadata
- TrueHD
- DTS-HD demuxing
- 8 bit audio
- Better handling of transport streams where audio starts first
- Better handling of transport streams that have been spliced together, leading to duplicate timestamps
- Better VC-1 frame detection
- Fixes bug that was causing one sec. of audio to be dropped on many ffmpeg files
- Looks harder for aspect ratio info from DV sources
- No longer truncates the last (dummy) chapter
- Allows specifying field parity for detelecine and decomb
Better AV sync
Support for sources with no audio
DTS passthrough for MKV
x264 bumped from r1169 to r1347, which means speed optimizations, new default settings (see r2742 commit comment), the magic of macroblock tree rate control (mbtree), a new CRF curve (meaning you will get different, generally lower bitrates at the same RF, with similar quality metrics), and weighted P-Frames (disabled by default for Baseline encodes and the AppleTV preset).
Better sample interleaving
Better, optional deinterlacer for decomb (EEDI2)
New mode structure for the decomb filter
Variable verbose logging levels
Fixed timing for first two frames coming out of filters
Libtheora bumped to 1.1.0
Improvements to our theora implementation (2 pass encoding + soft target rate control)
Caters to Theora's insistence on content having mod16 framing dimensions specified
Flushes LAME encoder's final packets
Fixed interjob framerate calculation
Fixed pthreads regression in cygwin
Tweaks for packaging tools