RFC: Getting HandBrake working in Debian

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Mon Jun 11 16:01:17 UTC 2012


I've got two questions regarding the 0010-... patch which makes 
handbrake get rid of its faac dependency:

1) Shouldn't we keep faac completely out of the UI instead of 
pretending to support it but silently falling back to the libav 
implementation called "ffaac"?

See:
  gtk/src/preset_xlat.c: 260 (which is in "#if 0" anyway)
  gtk/src/presets.c: 2000
  libhb/common.c: 65

2) Is the so called "ffaac" codec good enough to serve as a default 
codec, or should be better fall back to LAME whenever possible?

See:
  gtk/src/audiohandler.c: 72
  gtk/src/hb-backend.c: 3731, 4493, 4507
  libhb/common.c: 1559

  - Fabian



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