Dear Niv, thanks for your interest in handbrake and Debian. Am 20.08.2012 08:43, schrieb Niv Sardi:
what is missing to push handbreak into Debian ?
theoretically, i.e. from a strictly technical point of view, handbrake could get uploaded to Debian (preferably experimental) in its current form (i.e. with minor modifications). The drawbacks are (1) that it is missing AAC audio encoding because it uses FAAC for that, which is considered non-free and (2) that it is missing MP4 muxing, because it uses libmp4v2 for that which is licensed uder the MPL, while the rest of handbrake and its components is licensed under the GPL and both licenses are incompatible.
So for now it only supports lame or vorbis for audio encoding and MKV muxing, which would be enough to provide a working DVD ripper, but renders the (Apple device oriented) presets system pretty useless.
- Fabian