HandBrake found me a defective RAM module on my PC: it freezed in the middle of video conversion - every single time on exactly the same video position. After further investigation I found the "bug" in my RAM...
HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
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Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
#42It is amazing to see software that is about 10 years old just hitting 1.0. Never really quite understood that. Is the developer just not confident in it that it is in beta for a while? or is it just a style of versioning? Anyways glad to see development on handbreak.Great software!
Lots of open source takes 10 years to hit 1.0. Though 1.0 usually has a different meaning in both world's. 1.0 usually includes a set of features the project had in mind at the beginning in open source. Whereas in closed source it usually means the first version that works to a minimal extent. Closed source 1.0 equals open source 0 point something.
I generally take version numbers near 1 to be market communication about stability/fitness. Above that, I take version numbers as a loose grouping of significant change sets.
Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
#43I love this software. I rip my kids' DVDs using it and play them on a Raspberry Pi with Kodi. This way I don't have to wade through menus, language selection (never defaults to mine), commercials, and ridiculous piracy warnings (I paid for it! Don't treat me like a criminal).
Yes, the absurd of piracy warnings is ridiculous Really makes me think twice about giving them my money
Nothing makes me want to go out and pirate something purely as an act of defiance than unskippable piracy warnings.
Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
#44HandBrake found me a defective RAM module on my PC: it freezed in the middle of video conversion - every single time on exactly the same video position. After further investigation I found the "bug" in my RAM...
That's actually super interesting! I honestly wish I knew more about RAM to understand how that one process exposed the bug. :(
Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
#45I just downloaded it for the first time in a while 3 days ago and noticed that H.265 exists and compresses twice as well at the same quality level... how in the hell did I miss that? (VLC will play them). I did a test on a full-rez MKV and worked great
Most hardware video players (like Raspberry pi etc) can't decode H.265 using hardware acceleration, a RPi 2 (haven't testen RPi3) does not have enough computational power to play a FHD H.265 at 24FPS.
Until hardware H.265 decoding is introduced to the popular media center hardware, H.264 will remain the codec of choice for most people.
Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, the absurd of piracy warnings is ridiculous Really makes me think twice about giving them my money
Nothing makes me want to go out and pirate something purely as an act of defiance than unskippable piracy warnings.
For me, it's definitely the un-skippable advertisements. Like, as a software developer and user, I despise when an API is exposed that allows an application or website to suspend expected behavior in favor of custom hijinks, but to me, that's exactly what ignoring my menu and main-menu buttons is.
Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
#47I'm a huge fan of HandBrake and excited to see them still improving the application. The last time I used a DVD ripper was >5 years ago but it was an essential tool for me earlier in life. I'm happy to see I will still have it available should I need to use it.
I haven't ripped a DVD in ages, but I still use HandBrake all the time for user-friendly h.264 encoding for crushing files to fit on my phone or on the web. It works with any input that ffmpeg supports.
Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
#48HandBrake found me a defective RAM module on my PC: it freezed in the middle of video conversion - every single time on exactly the same video position. After further investigation I found the "bug" in my RAM...
Amazing. These are like Bill Brasky stories or Schneier facts.
If Handbrake fails, it's only because your hardware is broken.
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#49I ask as someone who uses ffmpeg regularly, what does Handbrake offer over ffmpeg?
How good is the ffmpeg AAC encoder these days? Ages ago when I started using HandBrake, it using Apple's CoreAudio codec on Macs for the AAC encoding was a big plus on the audio side.
Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
#50It is amazing to see software that is about 10 years old just hitting 1.0. Never really quite understood that. Is the developer just not confident in it that it is in beta for a while? or is it just a style of versioning? Anyways glad to see development on handbreak.Great software!
Versioning is generally arbitrary. I actually don't know why people pay so much attention to it. 1.0 for some people, is 0.1 for others. 1.0 might mean it's stable, or it could meant that it's feature complete. As you say it could also be used to convey the confidence the developers have in the software. The thing I find most important myself is conveying compatibility, i.e. semver. To me that tells me it will be eas…
I can generally agree with this save for two cases. One, I've found that major bumps in a programming language are significant, especially in the case of something like python 2 vs 3. Second, a lot of major javascript players have been using major bumps mainly in the case of breaking APIs, removing functionality, etc (ex: Lodash, ExpressJS, and - soon - React).
Contrarily, I've noticed in Rails that A LOT of major refactoring and functionality has been added via minor bumps that, while still backwards compatible for Rails itself, often breaks custom implementations, usually related to javascript modules and configs.
Overall, though, I agree with you.