Multimedia-PCs » handbrake http://www.multimedia-pcs.com HTPC, Gadgets, Technology Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:10:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Handbrake Updated for 64-bit Support http://www.multimedia-pcs.com/handbrake-updated-for-64-bit-support/ http://www.multimedia-pcs.com/handbrake-updated-for-64-bit-support/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:43:42 +0000 Jeremy Jones http://www.multimedia-pcs.com/?p=1548 Handbrake, the popular video transcoder, has been updated for 64-bit support. They claim 10% increase in performance. I’m seeing a little over that on my MacBook Pro (early 2008). I still haven’t tried it on my Mac Pro but I think it will get even better with 12GB of memory and 8 cores. They also trimmed the fat of the application to speed things up. Most are still probably going to see performance in the 22 to 30 fps but that’s close to real time so a 2 hour movie will take 2 hours to transcode. They offer a live preview so you don’t have to do the entire movie to see what it will look like. You can find out more about it here.

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I have been using HandBrake for as long as I can remember to convert my legally purchased DVDs to AVI for my Windows Media Center. Today they released 0.9.2 which has a lot of additions. The one fix I know people have been waiting for is Dolby Digital 5.1 sound in MP4 files. My appleTV friends will like that. Below is a partial list of the updates. Visit the site for complete details.

Apple fans will be delighted over:

* Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3) sound in MP4 files, for a true DVD experience on the AppleTV and in Perian.
* Multi-track audio support for Apple devices
* iPhone-compatible anamorphic video at its full size

Power users will find:

* Variable frame rate encoding with detelecine filtering
* More flexible, “loose” anamorphic video
* MP4 optimization for progressive web downloads
* Dynamic range compression for encoding from AC3 audio
* Robust program and transport stream support

Speed freaks will squee at:

* A fresher, faster version of x264
* Tuning of FIFO sizes by processor count

And everyone should enjoy the increased stability brought by:

* Better handling of audio discontinuities
* Better handling of DVD read errors
* Work-arounds for missing end-of-cell markers
* Recovery when streams have signal loss
* Better synced chapter markers
* Better handling of B-Frames
* No more cutting off the very ends of films
* No more lost subtitles or chapter markers
* No more crashes in 2-pass encoding

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I talked about MediaFork for Mac. Now there is a beta for Windows. I haven’t tried it yet, I’ll try to rip a movie this weekend. If it works like it does on the Mac then it will be a great program to add to your Windows computer. I talked about mediafork before here.

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