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HandBrake hasn’t been updated in over a year, so an open source community is leveraging it’s open-source nature to develop an offshoot known as MediaFork.

The current version is 0.8.0 Beta 1 and the big things it adds over the last version of HandBrake are a re-skined interface and improved encoders but there’s a bunch more little stuff and some info on future planned features here.

I love HandBrake (I even donated to the developer) so it’s good to see that development will continue and so far it looks very promising. I will say the icon blows chunks, so hopefully that will change in a future release. Not that HandBrake’s was much better, but at least it wasn’t just a circular blob, which is the most prevalent shape of icon it seems.

The site’s getting hammered right now so I’ve mirrored the Universal Binary Mac version (12.8 MB) on NVinNYC for the time being.

(Via TUAW.)