HandBrake 0.9.1: Released!

"Mistakes? We don't make mistakes."

We're chagrined to announce the public release of HandBrake 0.9.1. Why chagrined? Because 0.9.0 wasn't as stable as it should have been, something 0.9.1 rectifies.

Download it now.

This minor update squashes a number of glaring bugs. Most notably, HandBrake will no longer hang at the end of encoding MKV files with chapter markers. This means the Animation, Bedlam, Constant Quality Rate, Deux Six Quatre, Film, and Television presets are now usable.

Additional improvements:

• Impressive performance enhancements
• Significant interface prettification (Mac more than Win)
• Color subtitles now show up in color
• Changing dimensions in Picture Settings no longer causes a crash (Mac)
• Forced subtitle support
• More robust exception handling (Win)
• Closing the main window no longer causes HandBrake to crash (Mac)
• Using "Slow" deinterlacing no longer doubles the chapter count.
• MPEG Stream support is now case-insensitive (.VOB as well as .vob, etc) and more compatible
• No more error messages sent to standard out instead of standard error
• Bigger buffer for the activity log (Mac)
• Proper display of fading subtitles
• On-completion options to shutdown, suspend, etc (Win)
• "Same as source FPS" now works correctly when the end-credits of a progressive film are interlaced.
• Add-to-queue fixed (Win)
• Target size fixed for the umpteenth time (Mac)

...and assorted other changes.

As always, for the complete list of changes, see the Trac.

Another day, another facelift

NOTE: A problem with the Trac RSS feed URL was identified and fixed shortly after this theme was applied.

Thanks to the tremendous work by an anonymous contributor, the HandBrake blog got a facelift for hlscript! The site is now leaner (with a 30% reduction in HTML), prettier, and better than ever!

New (old?) look

For about a year now, the HandBrake blog/front page/RSS feed have been provided via WordPress, an open-source blog tool that provides amazing ease-of-use and fresh appearance at the expense of very high RAM and CPU requirements on busy sites.

As a result of this, many of you have noticed that especially during release periods, the site gets painfully slow (and occasionally goes down altogether).

In an attempt to combat this, we have redesigned the news portion of the site using an infrastructure called hlscript that provides much of the same functionality with far less resource requirements.

We hope that you like the new look - it is something of a blend of the "classic" HandBrake blog look (from over a year ago) and the WordPress K2 theme that was graciously provided to us by Hawkman.

The most critical elements of the old site - the Downloads page, the Documentation page, and the RSS feeds - have had redirects set up so that the old links should still work on the new site. If you discover anything broken or any often-used links that still need to be redirected, please let us know on the General discussion forum.

Thank you for your continued support and interest in HandBrake!