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- jbrjake, on 10/10/2007, -11/+82Sure would have been nice if you'd linked to a coral cache instead of directly to our site....
- Midnightbrewer, on 10/10/2007, -4/+57No offense, but not everybody knows how to link to a site using a coral cache; besides, linking directly is how the web is *supposed* to work. I understand the frustration of having your bandwidth sucked away all at one go, but that's the price of doing a good job and getting popular. Take it as a compliment and investigate better bandwidth management techniques in the meantime.
- jbrjake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Here are the very same files I uploaded for the official release, but on Mediafire:
Mac: http://www.mediafire.com/?5jjggzndjgt
Win: http://www.mediafire.com/?ewmlitymbtp
And for those of you who want to go hardcore:
Mac CLI: http://www.mediafire.com/?dymzdjlomls
Win CLI: http://www.mediafire.com/?3ioy5xu31tv - jbrjake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22We'd distributed around 10,000 copies when apache started struggling to just hand off connections to the mirrors :(
- vault, on 10/31/2007, -0/+18Thanks for developing it btw :-)
- burstlag, on 10/10/2007, -11/+27Excuse me, but I couldn't help but notice:
1. There's no description of handbrake in the summary
2. There's no description of handbrake in the linked page
3. There's no description of handbrake in the comments
Would someone tell me please: what the poop is handbrake? - Number17, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Site with working mirrors: http://mac.majorgeeks.com/download4674.html
- vault, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HandBrake
- jbrjake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13NP, but I'm sure some irate Digg users will complain if this hits the front page ;P Just wanted to get there before they do =)
- darkphan, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17My bad... sorry about that :(
- jbrjake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13HandBrake used to make really bare-bones h.264. Like, no b-frames, hex motion est., one ref frame. Now, it has presets with options ranging up to high profile. Also, the old scaler was ffmpeg's deprecated old default, img_resample(), whereas now HandBrake uses libswscale to perform high quality Lanczos scaling. Also, the higher-quality deinterlacing allows interlaced content to be encoded with much more detail than in the past, when HB used the old ffmpeg scaler (-vf pp=fd in mencoder).
- bobthegorilla, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13And HandBrake is the successor to MediaFork :) Circle of life!
- tablespork, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11When mediafork was released the original developer of handbrake came out of his year-long slumber, and with their powers combined, continue working on handbrake.
- saintdev, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Wait a couple of days, we weren't able to get it up this morning, and then we hit digg and......
- ModernGeek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9While I have this opportunity, I'd like to be the first to ask as to why you guys still use that silly icon instead of an alternative that shows more of what the application actually does, such as this one: http://samuraicoder.net/handbrake_replacement_icon I'm sure the creators of the alternative icon would love for you to use their work. Oh, and keep up the good work, we appreciate it.
- woodcoxcb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8poor m0k.org.
- eddyg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8For those that wanted a summary of what Handbrake is, in short it converts DVDs into files containing that movie for displaying on your computer, AppleTV, Xbox360, iPod, PSP, or PS3.
HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux.
Supported sources:
Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (even encrypted)
PAL or NTSC
AC-3, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks
Outputs:
File format: MP4, AVI, MKV, or OGM
Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer encoding)
Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)
Misc features
Chapter selection
Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
Integrated bitrate calculator
Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
Grayscale encoding - Me1000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8in short, it lets you rip your DVDs to a vast selection of video formats, and it is EASY!
- fuzzyping, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Will it rip Casino Royale yet?
- jbrjake, on 10/10/2007, -5/+13It's not bandwidth, it's load.
- bebop717, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10Netflix lowers their prices + new version of handbrake = Pirate paradise
- slashclee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6HandBrake doesn't do dynamic range compression for audio streams when ripping. That's why some scenes will be *really* quiet, and other scenes will be really loud, without you adjusting the volume.
- sr55, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6poor m0k.org indeed. Sorry guys the sites going to be down for a while. We've hit the macClients limit in apache and the dedicated server we are on can't handle any more connections so its going to be very intermittant for the next few hours or more/
- eddyg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Try using Mac The Ripper to rip the DVD to disk. Although HB can handle some copy protection, it's not it's forte, and it doesn't pretend to be able to do so reliably. In general though, if it can see the chapters then it can handle the rest of the disk.
- Terc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6try google.
Seriously, it's not his responsibility to teach you. If you don't understand something, you do research. Expecting to be spoon fed everything you need to know is absurd. - EmileVictor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Digg needs a system to change a url once it's submitted. I wonder why they haven't done anything about that and the other features we'd like to see.
- SuperCheese, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Seriously, I'm wondering that myself. If the article is only for people who should already know what it is, why bother posting it?
- dansmeek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5love handbreak. my only gripe is i wish it could automatically come up with a preset that worked with both appletv and iphone/ipod. sometimes i convert a movie and want to watch it on an iphone, or maybe the appletv. *occasionally* it will work (if it has perhaps the oldschool 640x480 resolution as source), but for newer stuff I will usually have to convert to AppleTV (for quality) and then convert that to iPhone (via ffmpeg) and thus have duplicate files.
New Interface looks awesome though. Good job. Handbreak is a lifesaver. - jbrjake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Sorta. I threw in something at the last minute that might've helped. Basically, the framerate detection used to kind of suck, and I was trying to change how much it sucked. I might have made it suck more, I might have made it suck less. I'm not really sure. But if you use "Same as source" and deinterlace ("Fast" is the one you're used to, but if you've got time, the new "Slow" is way better), then the jerkiness might be gone. It used to think all NTSC stuff was 23.976, now it thinks more stuff is 29.97. Generally stuff needing deinterlacing is 29.97, so it would have been jerky before. It might work. Try it out.
- BWhaler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4This program is so good it hurts. Thanks to the devs. They are an example of how a group of people working together can both achieve anything and take down the forces of evil.
- pinion, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Oh please will you reconsider and go to Google for it. I don't know what we'd do without your support... No one cares why you are burying the story or that you're not going to make an effort to find out "WTH this is" Stop being a moron and get over yourself.
- mavsman78, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I've used Handbrake on Windows for about six months and it works great! If you want to back up your commercial DVDs (which is what I think most people are looking for) on Windows you'll need another program to remove the copy protection. An ok freeware program is DVD43, but the best is anydvd. I've used it and have been able to copy all of my DVDs. Both of these work in XP and Vista.
- turquoisefish, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Number17's comment is under a buried one earlier but this download link works http://www.mediafire.com/?5cjxymnjlbm
- KublaKhan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Macupdate worked...
- eddyg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Because it makes that format more useful so that it does become more widely used, as it is technically a better container format than any of the others.
- knugen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4If you could change the URL after submission, you could get something to the front page (with an article about iPhone or whatever) and then change it to some spamsite...
- AaronD12, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The Versiontracker link doesn't work either. Anyone have a working mirror?
- GlenLeafJr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Why not put that link right here.
- superkendall, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Turn on the auto-expand in your profile. I agree how it works now is really annoying though, as I'd like to see all +4 or better comments from the start regardless of how deep they are.
- miniboss, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4The ONLY problem I have with Handbrake is that the volume is nearly 50% lower on everything it creates. Does anyone know if this is fixed here (or why they do it in the first place)? It's really annoying to have files of varying volume (depending on what app you ripped with) on the AppleTV or have your iPod video ripped files be almost unlistenable.
- cvk_b, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Actually, you shouldn't drive.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3shut up - how lazy are you that you couldn't have done a search yourself. You obviously had the time to write your stupid rant.
Clue - first result in google. - antdude, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4http://handbrake.m0k.org.nyud.net:8080/?p=53
- ArthurSucks, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Right, no Linux binary?
- jbrjake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Uh, the source is always available. It's on the svn.
- S4MF1SHER, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Handbrake is suhweet. Without it, I wouldn't have Ghostbusters with me where ever I go.
- Number17, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3http://www.mediafire.com/?5cjxymnjlbm
- cvk_b, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The first major release will be 1.0.0 -HandBrake is following the .. pattern.
- theonewho, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I was just about to ask about the linux binaries too. I'll be patient I guess lol.
- aliguana, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5there WAS a description on the site, until it got Dugg to death. Now there are just links to the programs.
Surely everyone knows what Handbrake is? 99% of Mac users do, anyhow (Windows binary available too) -
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