Queued jobs are cached to disk for safekeeping between sessions. When queueing up a bunch of videos to encode, you need no longer fear a crash in HandBrake's graphical interfaces. If you're on Linux, all you have to do is install a library. If you're on a Mac, and you have VLC 0.9.x installed, you won't even notice the internal capability's gone. We're not about to stop you from choosing to decrypt DVDs. Translation of the last paragraph from nerdese: HandBrake will dynamically load VLC's copy of libdvdcss if you have it in your Applications folder in Mac OS X, and if you're on Linux, and you want to live on the wild side, you can install libdvdcss on your system and get the same effect. Yeah, we know, no one reading this is going 'Oh wow, no more DVD decryption-what a great new feature!' but.deal. HandBrake now offers total control over multiple audio tracks. Picture quality has enhanced dramatically through the use of psychovisual rate distortion and adaptive quantization, and there have been significant speed optimizations. 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. It has full feature parity with the Mac interface. This is the real deal, interacting directly with HandBrake's core library instead of just putting a pretty face on a command line interface. There is now an official GTK graphical interface for Linux, available as a binary for Ubuntu. This massive enhancement was achieved by tapping into the power of libavcodec and libavformat from the FFmpeg project.

HandBrake is no longer limited to DVDs: it will now accept practically any type of video as a source. Sorry it's been so long, but we think you'll all agree this release of HandBrake was worth the wait. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.' 'The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams.

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