Initial packaging of handbrake for Debian (WIP)

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Rogério Brito <rbrito at ime.usp.br> wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> As I am a brand new dad, I want to transcode videos of my newborn son to
> formats that other family members can see and the first thought of mine was
> to do the job with handbrake.

Congratulations, ll the best to your wife and your son!

>
> For that purpose, I took the packages of Christian and started modifying
> them to be in a git-buildpackage buildable form (I wouldn't like anything
> else) and I have eliminated *almost* (not all, yet) downloading that
> handbrake performs when it is being built.
>
> With the packages that the team has already (libmkv and faac), there are
> only some finishing touches before we get a functional (not legal) package.
> Then, after that, I guess that one could also be legally OK and upload
> handbrake to Debian.
>
> Would you be interested in the work that I have done so far? Please, keep in
> mind that it is *incomplete* and very *dirty*, but a start, at least. :)

Absolutely.

>From the experiences I've made the last time I've worked on handbrake,
I know that there is still a lot of work to do for proper integration
of that piece of software into Debian. This includes both technical
steps, such as removing code duplication by making handbrake use
libraries we have in Debian, as well as addressing the reasons why
they chose to copy code and implement the current state. This involves
both a bit of research as well as talking to people that are involved
in handbrake and the libraries that they are copying (e.g., libav,
etc.)

I guess both are tough tasks, but eventually, we should at least
contribute to both.



-- 
regards,
    Reinhard