RFC: Getting HandBrake working in Debian

[Fabian Greffrath]

HI Rogerio,

thank you for submitting (some of) our patches to handbrake upstream.

Are you in active cantact with handbrake upstream? I mean, do they 
already know that what they are currently doing (i.e. distributing 
binaries copies of MPEG reference code in FAAC and linked together 
GPL+MPL code) is "legally interesting", to say the least? And that 
they bring others parties who want to distribute handbrake like us in 
similarly awkward situations because of the hardcoded dependencies on 
these libraries? Are there plans to get rid of FAAC and MP4V2 upstream?

Honestly, I think porting handbrake from FAAC to VO-AACENC (or 
whatever) and from MP4V2 to LIBAVFORMAT, ATOMICPARSLEY, GPAC (or 
whatever) is not a typical task for a packager/distributor. And since 
this issues need to get solved anyway for handbrake to remain legally 
distributable, is there anyone working on it upstream?

  - Fabian