In addition to outputting various video and audio formats, which include MP4, MKV, AVI and OGM, the program boasts chapter selection abilities, has basic subtitle support (burned into the picture), an integrated bitrate calculator, picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling, as well as grayscale encoding. Available immediately for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows, the new release boasts BluRay disc structure support, SSA subtitle support, compatibility with MP3 audio in MP4 files, and more.
HandBrake, an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, has reached version 0.9.5.
