Stable Handbrake package would be great

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Jeff Mitchell
<jeffmitchell at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> Subject line says it all. I just added the apt line for the unstable
> version, and I'm hoping it works. If not, I guess I'll try the next
> nightly build. Better yet, why don't we just get a stable version
> packaged, to save new users the trouble? I've been using Ubuntu for 4
> years and I still hardly know what I'm doing. The non-standardisation of
> Linux combined with a 6-month release cycle really screws things up.
> Let's at least get the best software packaged.

Hi Jeff,

I haven't looked at Handbreak very closely in awhile, but I imagine
not much has changed. It has a number of issues that make it difficult
(or even inappropriate) for inclusion in the Ubuntu repositories.
Namely it's build process is extremely problematic; it tries to
download and build all its dependencies at build time, and statically
link to those copies.

Here are some links about previous attempts to get this into Ubuntu:

http://revu.ubuntuwire.org/p/handbrake
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456165
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/105458

In the mean time, I suggest taking a look at either  transmageddon or
arista. Both are in the archive and are similar to Handbreak.

transmageddon - http://www.linuxrising.org/transmageddon/
Arista - http://www.transcoder.org/

- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio