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

[Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan]

Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> writes:

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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.

Sorry for the late report. Last weekend I used the package in
experimental to encode two large files for viewing on AppleTV and it
worked perfectly fine! :) Thank you very much for the work uploading the
package to experimental and also to the upstream. Much appreciated.

Ramakrishnan