Picture quality has enhanced dramatically through the use of psychovisual rate distortion and adaptive quantization, and there have been significant speed optimizations.

The x264 project has really come into its own this year, and HandBrake 0.9.3 integrates the latest improvements to the H.264 encoding library. It has full feature parity with the Mac interface. This is the real deal, interacting directly with HandBrake's core library instead of just putting a pretty face on a command line interface. There is now an official GTK graphical interface for Linux, available as a binary for Ubuntu. This massive enhancement was achieved by tapping into the power of libavcodec and libavformat from the FFmpeg project. HandBrake is no longer limited to DVDs: it will now accept practically any type of video as a source. Sorry it's been so long, but we think you'll all agree this release of HandBrake was worth the wait. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.' 'The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams.

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