Hi Fabian, On Mon, Aug 27 2012, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am 20.08.2012 08:43, schrieb Niv Sardi: >> what is missing to push handbreak into Debian ? > > theoretically, i.e. from a strictly technical point of view, handbrake > could get uploaded to Debian (preferably experimental) in its current > form (i.e. with minor modifications).
Awesome, do you need sponsoring ? > The drawbacks are (1) that it is missing AAC audio encoding because it > uses FAAC for that, which is considered non-free. I haven't built it (it actually failed and it's 6am here), but looking through the source I could find reference to a FFAAC codec that seemed to use libav's (ffmpeg) implementation. That doesn't work ? > and (2) that it is missing MP4 muxing, because it uses libmp4v2 for > that which is licensed uder the MPL, while the rest of handbrake and > its components is licensed under the GPL and both licenses are > incompatible. That is annoying, and looking at muxmp4.c, not an easy thing to fix. is handbreak the only consumer of that library ? I remember http://code.google.com/p/ffmbc/ is re-licencing ffmpeg from lgpl to gpl on the fly. It's not ultra ethical, but I don't know if it's illegal to do this with libmp4, maybe we can talk this upstream to get it dual-licenced lgpl ? > So for now it only supports lame or vorbis for audio encoding and MKV > muxing, which would be enough to provide a working DVD ripper, but > renders the (Apple device oriented) presets system pretty useless. I think it's good enough, I'd say upload to experimental, and then we see how we fix it. -- Niv Sardi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k3wkzerq.fsf@palpala.usuarios.inaes
