Bug#456165: Show stopers for handbreak in debian ?

[Fabian Greffrath]

Dear Niv,

thanks for your interest in handbrake and Debian.

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). The drawbacks are (1) that it is 
missing AAC audio encoding because it uses
FAAC for that, which is considered non-free 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.

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.

  - Fabian