Bug#695225: No support for mp4 container in Handbrake
Fabian Greffrath
fabian at greffrath.com
Thu Dec 6 08:15:45 UTC 2012
Am 05.12.2012 18:56, schrieb Juliusz Chroboczek:
> In the "Destination" dialog, the "Format" field only supports MKV --
> there's no way to select an mp4 container.
Indeed, that's very high on the TODO list and this specific missing
feature is even mentioned in the package description. We really need
someone with the necessary expertise to port the libmp4v2-using code
to use libavformat (or a similarly licensed library) instead.
The point is that handbrake currently uses libmp4v2 for MP4 muxing.
That library is licensed under the MPL, whereas the vast rest of the
code is licensed under the GPL. Since both licenses are
non-compatible, it is not possible for us to distribute a GPL'ed
package that links against MPL'ed code.
- Fabian
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