Bug#567863: RFP: Handbrake - video transcoder

[Ralf Jung]

Hi,

okay, thanks a lot for the update - I was not aware that the position wrt such 
codecs changed so drastically, but I am glad to hear it.

And I agree that handbrake would be a great addition, I use it whenever 
possible to do recode my videos. The package from the original author, 
designed for Ubuntu, works fine with Debian testing.

> I agree that Handbrake is a really great tool. Actually, I did take a
> look at the sources and found out, that it would require a lot of efford
> to get it into debian. The reason is that the ship a lot of patched
> libraries that we already have in debian. I don't think this code
> duplication is acceptable for the Debian system.
That might explain why the executable is 16MiB in size... ;-) (it does not 
ship any .so files though)

Kind regards,
Ralf