Video Converter 'Handbrake 1.0' Released for Mac After 13 Years in Beta

Still that terrible icon huh?

It's iconic.

Wow, I didn't even realize it was a beta product. 13 years, that must be some sort of record.

Wow, I didn't even realize it was a beta product. 13 years, that must be some sort of record.

13 years in beta. Dayum. Handbrake... the cicada ('https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=cicada%20life%20cycle') of video converters. :p:D

I used the Beta all the time until it stopped working on Mac because it wasn't compatible with Sierra (or maybe it was El Capitan when the compatibility issues began.) I ripped my entire DVD library with it so I have them all in my iTunes now and I can play them on my Apple TV.
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The way this worked in Beta pre-El Capitan was so long as you had a libdvdcss.dll file on your Mac it would decode the copy protection (which is what is needed to playback DVDs on any platform) and allow Handbrake to rip it.

The old location for libdvdcss got protected by SIP in 10.11. There is a different folder that is sanctioned that it can be manually moved to that works just fine. Search Google for specifics.

It's iconic.

"Put down that cocktail."

Wow, I didn't even realize it was a beta product. 13 years, that must be some sort of record.

Siri will break that.

So what did they finally do that made them comfortable that this is no longer a beta app?

My issue is I could never figure out how to rip movies with subtitles...not always on subtitles, but movies like Avatar. I used MakeMKV to rip it, then handbrake to convert it. I end up with an amazing quality rip, but I can't understand portions of the movie because there are no subtitles for when the na'vi are speaking. I've reached out to people online, but no one seems to be able to help

There's a setting within handbrake for subtitles that only appear during certain foreign language parts i.e. Avatar, and they are called "Forced Subtitles" i.e. where they will appear even if you have subtitles turned off. There is actually an option to burn in Forced Subtitles, and Handbrake will automatically identify them and encode them into the output video.

I wonder if I can use this to rip dvds again? I got some good ones over Christmas and want to have them on my hard drive. (No, seriously. I'm telling the truth. I'm on the internet.)

0.9.9, 0.10.0 etc were not beta's. They are final public releases. Beta releases were tagged as such when we released them.

We've simply switched to a more natural version number scheme now.

Seems everyone has taken the comment completely out of context. :(

The project has merly been around for over a decade now.

To be clear, it's not been 13 years since 0.9.9. There have been many major releases over this time. Atleast one every year.

Starting with the latest release, going back in time, So read from the bottom up.

1.0.0 Dec 24, 2016
-- Switch to a mostly SemVer approach. Major, Minor, Path
0.10.5 Feb 11, 2016
0.10.3 Jan 22, 2016
0.10.2 June 9, 2015
0.10.1 Mar 8, 2015
0.10.1 Beta 2 Feb 22, 2015
0.10.1 Beta 1 Feb 08, 2015
0.10.0 Nov 22, 2014
0.10.0 RC2 Nov 9, 2014
0.10.0 RC1 Sep 25, 2014
0.10.0 Beta 4 Sep 13, 2014
0.10.0 Beta 3 Sep 5, 2014
0.10.0 Beta 2 Aug 25, 2014
0.10.0 Beta 1 Aug 18, 2014
-- From this point forward, following a more SemVer style approach. x.y.z where z becomes minor bug fix releases. y is major.
-- Change in project version to add patch releases during the year. 0.10 was a major release with 5 patch releases. No Minor feature updates.
0.9.9 May 18, 2013
0.9.9 RC2 May 13, 2013
0.9.9 Beta May 6, 2013
0.9.8 July 18 2012
0.9.7 Skipped Release
0.9.6 Feb 28, 2012
0.9.5 Jan 3, 2011
0.9.4 Nov 23, 2009
0.9.3 Nov 23, 2008
0.9.2 Feb 19, 2008
0.9.1 Oct 8, 2007
0.9.0 Aug 19, 2007
- x.y.z where z is a major release. The project did not do "patch" Releases at this point.