HandBrake 0.9.2 Adds iPhone Anamorphic Video

Everyone owning an iPhone, iPod or Apple TV, will probably want to extract DVDs into those respective formats one day and HandBrake is the tool to use in these circumstances. The Leopard-only app has been updated to 0.9.2 adding iPhone Anamorphic video, multi-track audio on Apple devices, Elgato .eyetv file support and Sparkle updating among dozens of other changes.

Leopart users should also note that HandBrake 0.9.2 incorporates full support for the AppleTV Take 2 and the latest iPhone/iPod Touch firmware. Thus, you'll be able to enjoy a true HD experience thanks to the Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3) sound in MP4 files (AppleTV and in Peria), benefit from multi-track audio support for Apple devices and view iPhone-compatible anamorphic video at its full size.

With this release, you also have MP4 optimization for progressive web downloads and dynamic range compression for encoding from AC3 audio just to name a few more changes.

Since everyone wants a stable application 0.9.2 handles audio discontinuities a bit better now, as well as DVD read errors, with work-arounds for missing end-of-cell markers and recovery when streams have signal loss also being added as new features.

Other improvememts:
- Better synced chapter markers
- Better handling of B-Frames
- No more cutting off the very ends of films
- No more lost subtitles or chapter markers
- No more crashes in 2-pass encoding

There are some limitations too, of course. For instance, HandBrake 0.9.2 does not handle DTS audio tracks and single VOB files or any other file format.

Here's the changelog in full, if you want to have a look, and HERE's where you can download the latest version of HandBrake. And again, Mac users should note that this release is only compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).