Comment 37 for bug 105458

Hi.

On Feb 02 2013, Paul Gevers wrote:
> On 02-02-13 09:19, Lonnie Lee Best wrote:
> > I understand that this package is in debian, from the bottom of this page:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456165
> >
> > So when will it come to Ubuntu?
>
> I will investigate (the package is in experimental, not unstable),

The only reason why it was uploaded to experimental is that we didn't want
to disrupt with Debian's freeze for the release of wheezy.

> hopefully tomorrow, and if appropriate, I will file a sync request.

Just for the record, the package is with reduced functionality, due to
license reasons:

* No faac support (faac is non-free).
* No ability to generate MP4 files, only MKV, as mp4v2 can't be mixed with
  the GPL.

I would appreciate any help to get these fixed or worked around. Potential
solutions:

* Use dlopen for faac.
* Use libav for generation of MP4 files.

Any kind of help is mostly appreciated, especially when talking to upstream
and:

* pushing the lots of patches that they have accumulated to other projects.
* getting newer snapshots of handbrake to be packaged.

This is not a package that is so trivial to make available on a distribution
and I have spent many weeks trying to get it to a point where it was able to
be included in Debian.

Regards,

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