At the behest of someone from the BeOS Community, I recently contacted Eric "Titer" Petit, author of HandBrake, and asked him what the status was. His reply was quite positive:

"> Heyas Titer...
> I heard you needed some help with the GUI in handbrake.
> Mind if TBJ lends a hand and puts out a "call to arms"?
> I'm sure we can drum up a developer or two, or three. ;)

Hi Chris!

That might be helpful indeed. I started to write a full-sensitive
liblayout GUI for HB 0.6.x lately, but it quite bored me and I forgot
about it. I'm releasing 0.6.0 for OS X soon, and actually there
probably won't be a BeOS release unless I get some help (note than only
the GUI requires some work, 0.6.0 already works fine in CLI).

Thanks!"

So, any GUI-heads out there who want to lend a hand? Eric could use some help, and we all would love to see the new version of HandBrake get released. Contact Eric and let him know.

**update**
Titer just emailed me to say several people have stepped forward, and things are in good shape.