Handbrake 0.7.0
You know you're a geek when the release of a new version of your favorite software is an event you've been anxiously awaiting. For those of us who consider Handbrake their favorite app, we're in luck.
Handbrake is the currently the best way to make MPEG4 files for use on the DigitalBicycle. While there are a number of different ways to compress video we've yet to find any that match the quality and flexibility of Handbrake'd files. This is of course something we are eager to do though as the Handbrake solution is not perfect for those without a fast Mac or Linux machine or who would not be putting their content to DVD anyway. So please contact us with alternate options.
We were so anxious to see an update to Handbrake be released that we went ahead and wrote a detailed guide to using version 0.6.2. Lo and behold, shortly thereafter the first beta for version 0.7.0 was released. We're now on the second beta and while it fixes most of the significant problems of the first beta, I'm still getting a strange audio glitch when compressing a DVD made by the one of the youth organizations here in Lowell. But those are beta issues and judging by the stability of version 0.6.2, I expect that these bugs will be ironed out by the time we see an official release of 0.7.0.
And as for our guide to using Handbrake 0.6.2, we'll leave it as is until 0.7.0 is released and we've figured out exactly how to use it best for our purposes. In the meantime you can use this excellent tutorial for 0.7.0 at FreeSMUG (Free Open Source Software Mac Users Group).
Handbrake is the currently the best way to make MPEG4 files for use on the DigitalBicycle. While there are a number of different ways to compress video we've yet to find any that match the quality and flexibility of Handbrake'd files. This is of course something we are eager to do though as the Handbrake solution is not perfect for those without a fast Mac or Linux machine or who would not be putting their content to DVD anyway. So please contact us with alternate options.
We were so anxious to see an update to Handbrake be released that we went ahead and wrote a detailed guide to using version 0.6.2. Lo and behold, shortly thereafter the first beta for version 0.7.0 was released. We're now on the second beta and while it fixes most of the significant problems of the first beta, I'm still getting a strange audio glitch when compressing a DVD made by the one of the youth organizations here in Lowell. But those are beta issues and judging by the stability of version 0.6.2, I expect that these bugs will be ironed out by the time we see an official release of 0.7.0.
And as for our guide to using Handbrake 0.6.2, we'll leave it as is until 0.7.0 is released and we've figured out exactly how to use it best for our purposes. In the meantime you can use this excellent tutorial for 0.7.0 at FreeSMUG (Free Open Source Software Mac Users Group).
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