HandBrake Now Exports iPhone Compatible Video!

HandBrake 0.9.2 incorporates many major and exciting changes—including full support for the AppleTV Take 2 and the latest iPhone/iPod Touch firmware. Mac users take note: this release is only compatible with Mac OS X Leopard, 10.5.

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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