HandBrake 0.9.4

What's new in this version:

Core:
- New build system, allowing 64-bit binaries (around 10% faster)

Soft subtitles and Closed Captions:
- DVD Closed Captions
- ATSC Closed Captions
- SRT subtitle import
- Text soft subtitles in MP4 and MKV output
- Bitmap soft subtitles in MKV output

Better support for DVD inputs:
- Uses libdvdnav
- DVD angles support
- Workaround for libdvdread malloc bomb on invalid PGC entry
- DVD drive region detection support in Linux
- Handles DVD programs with more than 16 streams
- No longer tries to detect and discard duplicate titles when scanning
- Libdvdnav patched to perform read error recovery
- Libdvdread patched to allow raw device access in Windows
- Handles poorly mastered DVDs that had the menus ripped out of them

Better support for non-DVD inputs:
- Preserves MP4 metadata
- TrueHD
- DTS-HD demuxing
- 8 bit audio
- Better handling of transport streams where audio starts first
- Better handling of transport streams that have been spliced together, leading to duplicate timestamps
- Better VC-1 frame detection
- Fixes bug that was causing one sec. of audio to be dropped on many ffmpeg files
- Looks harder for aspect ratio info from DV sources
- No longer truncates the last (dummy) chapter
- Allows specifying field parity for detelecine and decomb
- Better AV sync
- Support for sources with no audio
- DTS passthrough for MKV
- x264 bumped from r1169 to r1347, which means speed optimizations, new default settings (see r2742 commit comment), the magic of macroblock tree rate control (mbtree), a new CRF curve (meaning you will get different, generally lower bitrates at the same RF, with similar quality metrics), and weighted P-Frames (disabled by default for Baseline encodes and the AppleTV preset).
- Better sample interleaving
- Better, optional deinterlacer for decomb (EEDI2)
- New mode structure for the decomb filter
- Variable verbose logging levels
- Fixed timing for first two frames coming out of filters
- Libtheora bumped to 1.1.0
- Improvements to our theora implementation (2 pass encoding + soft target rate control)
- Caters to Theora's insistence on content having mod16 framing dimensions specified
- Flushes LAME encoder's final packets
- Fixed interjob framerate calculation
- Fixed pthreads regression in cygwin
- Tweaks for packaging tools
- Solaris 10 build support

All interfaces:
- Live video preview
- New subtitle tab
- New filters and picture settings inspector
- Custom anamorphic mode
- Updated Sparkle
- Custom number of preview images
- Quality slider now works off actual rate factor/quantizer values instead of percentages
- Partially updated advanced x264 tab
- New built-in presets
- Use libdvdnav by default on DVD sources
- Removed Constant QP encoding option for x264 (use CRF)
- Various bug fixes and UI tweaks
- x264 turbo 1st pass mode now uses subme=2 not subme=1

Windows:
- New audio tab
- AAC audio source decoding bug fixed
- Tray minimization is now optional
- Queue can now be started from main window
- Growl for Windows notification support
- General UI improvements
- Preset import
- Preferred language control for audio dubs and subtitles
- Fixed file extensions resetting to m4v when enabling chapter markers in mkv
- Faster updating of GUI elements from CLI data
- Cleanup / Improved some of the programs options. (Growl, use m4v, drive detection)
- Numerous fixes in the Picture Settings Panel and CLI Query Handling code
- Bug Fixes and Usability improvements

CLI:
- Options to handle new subtitle, anamorphic, and preview features
- --srt-file, --srt-codeset, --srt-offset, --srt-lang, --srt-default
- --native-dub option lets users request dubbing instead of subs when the audio isn't in their native language
- Allow encoding sources with no audio without explicitly stating -a none
- Update checker on MinGW built exe should now work correctly
- Matches GUIs' default verbosity level of 1