HandBrake

HandBrake is no longer limited to DVDs: it will now accept practically any type of video as a source. There is now an official GTK+ graphical interface for Linux. The latest improvements to the H.264 encoding library were integrated. Picture quality was enhanced dramatically through the use of psychovisual rate distortion and adaptive quantization, and there have been significant speed optimizations. HandBrake now offers total control over multiple audio tracks. libdvdcss is used for DVD decryption instead of internal code. Queued jobs are cached to disk for safekeeping between sessions. The presets are now organized in folders and have evolved. HandBrake should now keep audio and video synchronized as well as a DVD player can. A deinterlacer that can be left on all the time without degrading picture quality was added. HandBrake now can encode video using the Theora codec.

Bugfixes were made for missing subtitles, audio glitches with LPCM tracks, and more. Multithreaded H.264 encoding with x264 was added. The option for H.264 Baseline (suitable for iPods) was added. (Very) experimental queue support was added. Fixes were made for some DVD titles that HandBrake would not recognize. Chapter selection, custom framerate, subtitle support, custom aspect ratio, audio samplerate selection, mp4/H.264 output, proper NTSC support, AC3 pass-through, 2-pass H.264 encoding, constant quality encoding, and grayscale encoding were implemented.

Support for DVDs with MPEG audio tracks was added.
The DVD navigation code was rewritten. A high
quality resampler has been included. AVI
compliance was improved. The encoders were
updated. Internal improvements and bugfixes were
made.