New, better organized presets (Be sure to run 'Update Built-In Presets' from the Presets menu!) The presets are now 'nested' in folders and have evolved.Queued jobs are cached to disk for safekeeping between sessions. Persistent queues When queueing up a bunch of videos to encode, you need no longer fear a crash in HandBrake's graphical interfaces.If you're on a Mac, and you have VLC 0.9.x installed, you won't even notice the internal capability's gone. We're not about to stop you from choosing to decrypt DVDs. HandBrake will dynamically load VLC's copy of libdvdcss if you have it in your Applications folder in Mac OS X. No more internal DVD decryption Yeah, we know, no one reading this is going 'Oh wow, no more DVD decryption-what a great new feature!' but.deal.Audio flexibility HandBrake now offers total control over multiple audio tracks.Picture quality has enhanced dramatically through the use of psychovisual rate distortion and adaptive quantization, and there have been significant speed optimizations. Video quality The x264 project has really come into its own this year, and HandBrake 0.9.3 integrates the latest improvements to the H.264 encoding library.
This massive enhancement was achieved by tapping into the power of libavcodec and libavformat from the FFmpeg project. Universal input HandBrake is no longer limited to DVDs: it will now accept practically any type of video as a source.