Bug#456165: Decent DVD rippers?

[Andres Mejia]

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 11.05.2012, 16:10 -0400 schrieb Andres Mejia:
>> Could it use vo-aacenc as an alternate?
>
> I've never considered. It's not like vo-aacenc is a drop-in replacement
> for faac, their APIs appear quite dissimilar (IIRC vo-aacenc is C++
> while libfaac is C).

Yes it's not a drop-in replacement and I believe faac has some
features not available in vo-aacenc. I could be mistaken about the
features however.

>> It probably makes more sense to replace use of libmp4v2 with libav
>> instead anyway. mp4v2 upstream doesn't look very active IMO and it may
>> serve the handbrake project better to switch to something else.
>
> There is still atomicparsley as an alternative. The gtkpod mainatiners
> have just turned it into a GPL'ed library, cf.
> <http://old.nabble.com/Finally-pushed-alternative-to-libmp4v2-td33723081.html>
>
>  - Fabian
>
>

Ok, saving this little information about atomicparsley in the ITP bug
for handbrake.

-- 
~ Andres