Whats new in version 0.9.9:
- General:
- Choice of Scalers:
- Lanczos
- This is currently Handbrake\'s default scaler and will remain so.
- Bicubic (OpenCL) (Experimental)
- Available on the Command Line (All Platforms) and Windows GUI. (Mac / Linux GUI\'s will come in a later release)
- Currently only available in OpenCL form so requires a AMD or Intel GPU supporting OpenCL 1.1 or later. Nvidia GPU\'s are not currently supported.
- When downscaling, up to 5% performance improvement can be achieved. No benefit when not down-scaling.
- Small loss in quality over the Lanczos scaler.
- Denoise:
- hqdn3d filter now accepts individual settings for both chroma channels (Cr, Cb)
- New NlMeans? denoiser. This is very slow, but results are significantly better than hqdn3d.
- Presets:
- Added Windows Phone 8 Preset
- Updated Libraries:
- x264 r2431-ac76440
- Libav v10.1
- libbluray 0.5.0
- Libavformat is now used for muxing instead of mp4v2 and libmkv
- "Large File Size" checkbox has now bee removed for mp4, as the new muxer will transition to 64bit fil...
Publisher review:HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder.
The software allows you to convert from many common multimedia file formats, including unprotected DVD or BluRay sources to a handful of modern output file formats.
Operating system:Mac OS X 10.6 or later
HandBrake 0.9.9 details 
