Handbrake possible new package

[David Timms]

On 30/12/10 11:33, gatlin sullivan wrote:
> Handbrake (http://handbrake.fr/) is a utility to process and encode video (and 
> audio). It is supported for the new version of Gnome. It actively develops for 
> the GNU/Linux platform. A semi-nightly rpm release is made 
> (https://build.handbrake.fr/). There is a spec file listed in its source code 
> (http://trac.handbrake.fr/browser/trunk/gtk/ghb.spec). All of the source can be 
> found on its web-site (http://trac.handbrake.fr/browser). Detailed build 
> instruction (though slightly outdated) can be found documenting building, 
> specifically on GNU/Linux, for Fedora and Ubuntu 
> (http://trac.handbrake.fr/browser/trunk/doc/BUILD-Linux). It is licensed as GNU 
> GPL version 2 (http://trac.handbrake.fr/browser/trunk/COPYING).
> 
> If I attempt to package this after its 9.5 release - which should be relatively 
> soon and imminent - will it meet the requirements of Rpmfusion. I do know that 
> since it depends on certain things that are unpackageable for Fedora's 
> repositories that it will not be acceptable there. I, with rpmfusion 
> repositories installed plus libdvdcss, am able to install the semi-nightly 
> builds and use them. Thus, I believe that all of the 
> license inappropriate dependencies for Fedora must have been met by Rpmfusion. I 
> believe that packaging this and putting into Rpmfusion would be a great addition 
> to Fedora. I believe that most Fedora desktop users use Rpmfusion, so this as an 
> addition to Rpmfusion will really expand the presence of Handbrake for Fedora 
> user's to acquaint themselves.

>From memory, I thought someone had begun this, and indeed, the review
request is closed: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679

see also:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.rpmfusion.devel/6397

One thing to note is that rpmfusion parallels fedora guidelines except
for allowing certain specific things. Hence this means no internal
libraries used, where there is already a system library. This might be a
certain amount of work to ensure removal of internal libraries, and use
of the fedora/rpmfusion packaged ones.
[Updated libraries

Besides x264, updated libraries include libsamplerate, libogg, xvidcore,
libmpeg2, lame, faac, and ffmpeg's libavcodec, libavformat, and libswscale]

So, if you have something, put it up for review.