RFC: Getting HandBrake working in Debian

[Rogério Brito]

Hi, Fabian and others.

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> haven't heard for a while and just want to ask if you are still working on
> the handbrake package?

Sorry for not sending news. I am busy in real life but some days ago I
pushed some changes to our repository, including version 0.9.8 (the
previous one was 0.9.6). Can you please take a look at those?

Oh, BTW, the developers of handbrake have included a patch to libmkv.
We should, perhaps, upload a new version of libmkv to the archives,
since it will make life easier for packaging handbrake and I don't
think that it will interfere with other packages (AFAIK, handbrake is
the only reverse dependency of libmkv).

Otherwise, commenting some lines in the mkv mux/demuxing in handbrake
is enough to get handbrake 0.9.8 to compile. I am using this right now
and it works well (well, my private copy still uses mp4v2 and faac,
though).

Upstream's trunk is now using more patched versions of other libraries
(IIRC, a52, at least), which means that we should keep filtering the
patches and uploading things to experimental, so that we don't diverge
too much from upstream.

Anyway, the trunk version has support for bob deinterlacing which is
something that I really, really want to convert some videos of my son
(unfortunately, my camera only records interlaced videos). It also
seems that the trunk version has support for "subtitles" that my
camera generates in the form of PGS subtitles. That will be cool to
have.

Well, those are my intentions and short-term plans. Again, I would
love to have some peer-reviewing of the packaging so far. I have some
comments about your commits to the repository, but I will save them
for later.


Thanks for the ping,

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