You may know that HandBrake has been one of the best, and free, tools for ripping DVD's into either XviD or H.264 files. However, the developer pretty much stopped working on it around a year ago. Some new blood came along and was re-started efforts to move it forward, they used the name of the new application MediaFork since they weren't able to get in touch with the HandBrake developer for permission to use the name. They were able to use the HandBrake code as it was open source.

After MediaFork came out, the group received permission to use the HandBrake name. Soon MediaFork will disappear, and only the trusty, familiar old name HandBrake will remain.

The website is now showing the merger of these two variants of HandBrake, and there is a new 0.9 version of HandBrake due out any day now. Until that is released you can still use the 0.8 version of MediaFork.

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