For those of you who use this encoder thru DVD Rebuilder or use it on its own, a new version has been released.

After a long pause in development, the highest quality freeware MPEG-2 encoder is back with a new release for fall 2010. The new version 0.25 comes with a handful of improvements and bug fixes, along with an announcement that the v0.24 has been withdrawn from distribution (no reason given).
Changes from version v0.23

  • HCenc 0.24 was withdrawn
  • bug fix release
  • added *1PASS command
  • added *INTRAVLC command
  • added *MINBRFAC command
  • added 4:2:2 input / output
  • some issues using Avisynth input are fixed
  • better fade detection/handling