Getting a movie from a DVD into iTunes isn’t nearly as simple as ripping music from a CD. Thanks to the copy protection on commercial DVDs (and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act), you can’t stick a DVD into your Mac, launch iTunes, and press a button to convert it to an iPod- and iPhone-friendly format. One easy way to solve the problem is to use, a free open-source video-conversion program. In late November, HandBrake's developers released a new version, 0.9.4. While an update from 0.9.3 to 0.9.4 doesn't sound very impressive, that tiny version-number increase belies the major updates it includes. Here's a hands-on look at some of the new and updated features.

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HandBrake for Mac is a program that lets you convert multiple types of video files into MP4 or MKV format, while specifying other output characteristics, as well. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux.

64-bit support HandBrake is now available in a 64-bit version for use with OS X 10.5 or 10.6 Macs with Core 2 Duo or better Intel processors. Unlike many 64-bit Mac programs, which contain both a 32-bit and 64-bit version within a single clickable app, HandBrake is available as two completely separate versions, one that runs in 32-bit mode and another in 64-bit mode. HandBrake's Website says that the 64-bit version encodes video about 10 percent faster than the 32-bit version, owing to the added efficiency of 64-bit math routines—and every little bit counts when you’re transcoding video. However, there’s one extra step to getting the 64-bit version of HandBrake working on your Mac.

As of 0.9.3, HandBrake's developers stopped including the code necessary to decrypt commercial DVDs on its own for legal reasons. Instead, the program uses the libdvdcss decoding program that's bundled with the free. As long as you've got VLC installed, HandBrake will sense its presence and use its copy of libdvdcss without any extra effort on your part. However, when this article was published, the current version of VLC (1.0.3) was not available as a 64-bit version due to stability concerns. To get around the problem, you. One is to download, the previous version. Another is to grab one of the, which include 64-bit support.

(Keep in mind, however, that the Website specifies that “the nightly builds are UNSTABLE and may not work at all.”) On a side note, you can install both 32- and 64-bit versions of VLC on your computer at the same time, but HandBrake only sees the app if you don’t change its name (in other words, if you call one VLC 32 and the other VLC 64, it won’t work—the one you want HandBrake to use has to be called just plain old VLC). As an alternative workflow, you can use the 32-bit version of the free application, which also uses VLC's libdvdcss to mount protected DVDs as unprotected versions. Once Fairmount has used its 32-bit prowess to mount the DVD in an unprotected form, the 64-bit version of HandBrake can convert that disc directly without any need to access VLC's libdvdcss itself.

Going the Fairmount route can take a lot longer, however, since it takes a while to decrypt the DVD. Using a 3.06GHz iMac with 4GB of RAM running OS X 10.6.2, I encoded two chapters of a movie totaling 11 minutes, 24 seconds using both the 32- and 64-bit versions of HandBrake 0.9.4—and the corresponding versions of VLC (32-bit 1.0.3 and a nightly build of 64-bit VLC 1.0.3)—to see what the difference was.

Both were encoded using the AppleTV preset. The 32-bit version took 8 minutes, 38 seconds, while the 64-bit version took 7 minutes, 18 seconds—a difference of just over 15 percent. (The resulting encoded files were the exact same size.) Soft subtitles HandBrake has long been able to include subtitle tracks from DVDs in your transcoded files. But they’ve always been burned into the movie you create with no way of turning them off. New in 0.9.4 is the ability to include subtitle tracks that you can turn on and off.