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The open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter from HandBrake reached version 0.9.0 in its newest version, with a number of improvements.

The developers behind HandBrake have had a busy past four months, leading to their latest product update:

• User experience is improved through a re-envisioned Mac interface and a Windows interface that’s been rebuilt from the ground up.
• Picture quality is improved through better image scaling, better deinterlacing, new filters for denoising, deblocking, inverse telecine, and new presets devoted to high quality settings.
• Speed improvements due to updated copies of x264 and ffmpeg. This includes improved multi-threaded encoding for the iPod.
• Compatibility is improved through new presets for devices like the iPhone and PSP. As well, HandBrake now supports DTS as an audio source and has limited support for .VOB and .TS file containers as input. Most excitingly, HandBrake can now output to the Matroska (MKV) file container.
• Stability has been improved due to countless bug fixes. (Including audio drop and mp2 issues). Handbrake also has optional support for MP4 files larger than 4 gigabytes.

TUAW said “you no longer have to customize your encoding settings for the iPhone, thanks to new presets that simplify the process.”

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