Download HandBrake 0.9.9

Version 0.9.9 of HandBrake has been released. Available for Windows, Linux and OS X, this open source and multithreaded program can convert movie files into video files in h264 or mpeg4 image format and aac, ac3, mp3 or Ogg Vorbis sound format. In this release, support for blu-ray, ac3 encoding, and audio downmixing has been added, among other things, and many components have been updated to new versions. In addition to version 0.9.9, betas have also appeared that make use of Intel’s Quick Sync Video and OpenCL. The changelog for version 0.9.9 looks like this:

General

• Improved HandBrake pineapple icon by Matt Johnson
• Improved Retina resolution icons within the application, by Nik Pawlak

core

• Blu-ray (PGS) subtitle support
  • works with Foreign Audio Search
  • can be Burned-In
  • can be passed through to MKV (but not MP4)
• Additional video frame rates
  • 30, 50, 59.94, 60 fps
• Double framerate (“bob”) mode for the deinterlace and decomb filters
• Better audio remix support
  • additional mixdowns: 6.1, 7.1, 7.1 (5F/2R/LFE). CLI users should note 6ch becomes 5point1
  • better-than-Stereo sources can be upmixed to 5.1
  • discard one channel from Stereo sources. Mono (Left Only), Mono (Right Only)
• Allow the selection of higher audio bitrates where appropriate
• Allow the selection of lower audio samplerates where appropriate
  • 8, 11,025, 12, 16 kHz
• Audio dithering (TPDF) when converting to 16-bit FLAC
• Use libavcodec for DTS audio decoding (instead of libdca)
  • DTS-ES 6.1 Discreet Support
• All graphical interfaces: support for x264’s preset, tune and profile options
  • alternative to the Advanced panel (which is still available)
  • HandBrake-specific option to ensure compliance with a specific H.264 level
• Updated built-in presets
  • take advantage of x264 preset/tune/profile support
  • removed increasingly suboptimal and irrelevant Legacy presets
• Assorted bug fixes and improvements to the core library (libhb)
• Updated libraries
  • x264 r2273-b3065e6
  • Libav v9.6
  • libbluray 0.2.3

Windows

• User Interface has been rewritten in WPF
  • Includes many small UI enhancements
• Switched to .NET 4 Client Profile
  • smaller download for those who don’t have .NET 4 Full installed

mac

• Assorted bug fixes
  • including better support for Retina displays
• Prevent sleep during encoding and scanning for Mountain Lion
• Drag & Drop files onto the Main window or application icon to scan
• Nicer progress indication on the dock icon
• Preview window improvements and bug fixes
• Updated Growl to 2.0.1
  • Notification Center support (when Growl is not installed)

Linux

• Assorted bug fixes and improvements
• Use some system libraries rather than bundling
  • fontconfig, freetype, libxml2, libass, libogg, libvorbis, libtheora and libsamplerate

Command Line Interface

• Audio option (-a) will ignore invalid input tracks and encode with only the valid ones
• Allow use of hh:mm:ss format when specifying p-to-p start/stop time
• Advanced audio options
  • enable level normalization when downmixing (disabled by default)
  • disable audio dithering or select a specific algorithm