Cryptic Writings on the Tubes

Handbrake is a great DVD ripper. It’s good for “ripping” a DVD to make a movie file such as “American_Psycho.avi” ;) . Handbrake 0.9.3 is the last version that has support for creating Xvid video – the kind you want for your standalone divx player such as the Philips DVP642. They developers have dropped support for Xvid in the new releases because of Xvid’s incompatibilities with the newer codecs like H264 Matroska, etc, which are actually better for HD video and can have chapters, etc. . . .

But I like encoding in Xvid because the standalone players (Philips DVP 642, DVP 5960, DVP 3140) my friends and family and I use do not support Matroska or h264, but do a great job with Xvid. We have quite a collection and it will still be in use for years to come. So since Xvid is such a favourite, and Handbrake is so ultra-cool and awesome, I am going to keep the Xvid version, Handbrake 0.9.3, running on my computers as long as I can. To that end, I’ve collected some installers and links to old versions of handbrake here.

Installers

Windows (You may need to install .NET first from Windows Update):

Handbrake 0.9.3 Windows Installer

Linux:

Ubuntu 9.10

Handbrake 0.9.3 packages installed easily on Ubuntu 9.04 (see below) but wouldn’t run on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala because of dependency problems (add error message here)

If you have Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala or Linux Mint 8 do the following:*

Install the common-files package first:

DO Install Ubuntu – common (9.10) handbrake-common_0.9.3+repack1-0md0.9.10.2_all

AND Then install this package for the handbrake program:

Ubuntu 32-bit (9.10)-handbrake-gtk_0.9.3+repack1-0md0.9.10.2_i386

OR If you are sure that you are ready to use the 64-bit version, install the common-files above and then choose the 64-bit package instead:

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala 64-bit -handbrake-gtk_0.9.3+repack1-0md0.9.10.2_amd64

Ubuntu 9.04 and earlier

Ubuntu 32-bit (9.04 or earlier) – Choose this if have ubuntu and you aren’t sure if you have 64-bit

Ubuntu 64-bit (9.04 or earlier)

PPA for Marc DesLauriers – Where I found the handbrake package and where you can simply add the source (click “Technical details about this PPA” on that page to learn how) and then

“sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk” will install Handbrake for you!

*If you are not sure which Ubuntu version you have, look in your “Software Sources” applet. There you will get some idea.