Bug#739865: handbrake: When encoding with presets for AppleTV2, container is set to mkv.

[Reinhard Tartler]

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On Feb 25, 2014 3:01 AM, "Fabian Greffrath" <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
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> Am Dienstag, den 25.02.2014, 09:40 +0530 schrieb Ramakrishnan
> Muthukrishnan:
> > Are you aware of any other mp4 muxing library? If so, I volunteer to
> > write the parts of handbrake to use that library instead of mp4v2.
>
> Heh, we have been waiting for you for years! ;)
>
> No, seriously, of course there are other alternatives for MP4 muxing,
> e.g. libavformat, atomicparsley or gpac. However, from a quick glance at
> our repository, it seems that something has happened upstream with
> regard to this. At least, we obviously do not need to explicitely patch
> that code out anymore. Maybe Reinhard can shed some light on this?
>

Handbrake upstream is working hard on making the use of mp4v2
unnecessary in favor of libavformat. The snapshot that I uploaded to
experimental already avoids mp4v2, so please let me know if that
package works better for you guys.

Reinhard