Bug#456165: ITP: handbrake -- Rips and encodes DVDs (was Bug#672561: libavcodec-dev: Missing /usr/include/libavcodec/audioconvert.h)

[Andres Mejia]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Rogério Brito <rbrito at ime.usp.br> wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The problem with that is that audioconvert.h is not part of the public
>> API. Moreover, most of the APIs have already been removed in current
>> libav/master in favor of the newly introduced libavresample library.
>> Therefore, I do not think it would be a good idea to start shipping
>> this header.
>
> OK.
>
>> The proper long-term solution is to port handbrake to 'libavresample'
>> (not yet uploaded to experimental, the packaging needs review, and is
>> not going to be included in wheezy). As short-term workaround, I'd
>> suggest to copy the parts of audioconvert.h and audioconvert.c to the
>> handbrake packaging.
>
> For the quick and dirty solution, I did just that, but the packaging
> is crufty. As I need to get some sleep right now, it will be great to
> see the package gain some love from others, even if we can't upload
> handbrake due to licensing and dependencies in time for wheezy.
>
> OTOH, it never hurts to be able to have the package in source form
> ready for a compilation to be used as we see fit, while the package
> has not hit the main archive.
>
>> That's excellent news! Thanks for working on it and count me in as
>> supporter (i.e., put me to Uploaders).
>
> Just did that and pushed my current changes to the repo:
>
>    http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/handbrake.git
>
> I hope that others will join me in getting it slowly in shape.
>
>
> Regards,
>
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I just noticed that libmkv was written specifically for handbrake. In
this case, I wouldn't even bother uploading libmkv separately and just
use whatever libmkv ships with handbrake.

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~ Andres