When I wasn’t looking, the Handbrake dev community released a
Development Snapshot that allegedly fixes the XVID encoding issue that 0.9.2 had [in short, that it just wouldn't encode XVID in AVI as instructed in my post on my Panasonic DVD player].
Handbrake continues to be the Carla Bruni of DVD tools. Beautiful, sort of French, and… this metaphor is awful.