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This is another news item, I like news keeps you up to date. Anyway this item is about Handbrake. It is the open-source DVD to Mpeg-4 video ripper. It is one of the best and quickest applications around for converting video files. It has been updated from version 0.91 to 0.92. I don’t no why people just don’t start at one. Among the features set this update boasts:

• 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
• 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
• 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

A number of great little updates to a great program. I haven’t yet managed to use the app, but from an initial launch it seems stable. Best all of it is free. Head over to the handbrake website to find all the information plus the new download.

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