Apple Thoughts: Handbrake 0.9.3 Released

"Handbrake, the popular multi-platform transcoding tool, has officially released version 0.9.3 to the public today. New in this version is the ability to transcode other sources of video besides DVDs. On the flip side, there is no longer any more built-in DVD decryption. While this may seem like bad news to users on the surface, it isn't really that bad. If you're a Mac user, and you install VLC in your applications folder, it will transparently use VLC's decrypting engine. Cool, huh?"

In the absence of Visual Hub, the idea that Handbrake could be my one stop shop for converting video and ripping DVD's is very comforting. Handbrake has always been a good piece of software and this seems like a worthy release. It's important to note for you bi-platformular people that the Windows version still won't decrypt a DVD even if you have VLC installed, but I imagine that can't be too far off now that they've got it working for OSX.