HandBrake

Oh, and I agree with benlake that the current queue systems feels like bolted-on. (That's because it is. HB did not have a queue at all in early versions.) A "live" queue in a separate window like benlake suggested sounds to me like an excellent idea for HB 1.8 or so. Instead of pre-cachin...

One of the most frequent check-boxes I check is the "De-Interlace" button. (I rip a lot of TV DVDs and watch on a progressive-scan display, so it's fairly crucial, and I end up checking it almost every single time.) In the original HB 7.1, You have to go in to the "Picture Settings&qu...

Hey, congratulations on getting the forums off the ground! My biggest single complaint with Handbrake (which I started bringing up on the old forums shortly before the mysterious vanishing of the developer) has always been that the "burned-in" subtitles are stripped of color data and repla...

In fact, regarding the binaries, I think we should consider if we want that many binaries out there that have an "a" in the version if you know what I mean... Just food for thought... Speaking as a non-dev, I am more than happy to put up with the quirks of alpha-phase software when it mea...

I think the obvious answer to your distribution problem is bittorrent. As long as you have enough Good People out there willing to keep "seeding" after they've finished their downloads, the only load on your server would be the tracker and people downloading the torrent file itself. (And y...