On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 07:50:52PM -0400, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote: > Bonjour Pierre, > > On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 18:28 +0200, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > > Transcode is an old, unmaintained, transcoder for video and audio. > > I've made a patch to allow building it with GCC 10, but I am not sure > > how to test it. So maybe time to drop it... > > At this point, I've discussed with D. Reno, who pointed up that > > there is a replacement, whose name is handbrake [1]. > > > > I've not tried to build it yet, but it has both a cli and a gui, and > > seems to be able to do all what transcode was able to do (correct me > > if > > not). > > > > So my proposition is (after some tests maybe) to drop transcode and > > add > > handbrake (building does not seem hard [2], no idea of the SBU's). > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Pierre > > > > [1] https://handbrake.fr/ > > [2] > > https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/handbrake > > > I have HandBrake fully working (cli and GUI) with BLFS-9.1 > no trouble with building. > I am still at version 1.2.2 (while current is 1.3.2) > -- > You have seen "Linux from scratch" and looking for ISO files > www.osukiss.org > Hi Guys,
I'm surprised to find I'm back online (no broadband or cable TV for a couple of days), so just some brief comments on this: I looked at HandBrake-1.1.1 in July 2018. I'm sure that dependencies have changed since then (it needed Python2), At that time I needed janssson (ISTR that is now in BLFS), and lots AV libs we already had. I don't have any interest in bluray, so I tried to do without that - my notes suggest that system libbluray needed java, which I normally omit, but the shipped libbluray was ok without it. At that time it "shipped" (in practice, like libreoffice, it downloaded) libav (the fork of ffmpeg - maybe it is now back on ffmpeg), libvpx, and qsv (for intel, if enabled). In general, it seemed to be keen to used bundled libs in contrib/. But after building it, I was very disappointed - 1. Not able to extract PCM audio (e.g. to take a music DVD and extract the PCM audio if it has that). With transcode I could rip a vob (I think, ages since I had any need) and then use ffmpeg to get the audio. More generally, there seem to be options for video quality, but audio is only aac. At the time, most online articles about handbrake ignored audio quality. 2. For aac, I tried using fdk-aac but it downloaded an older version and used that instead of the system version. I suspect that it is another package which wants to use its own versions. 3. I haven't made kept notes on a lot of the details, but it seems the commandline version was very poorly documented, and the graphic application (ghb) seemed to lack useful options for what I wanted to do. Summary: it needed a lot of work - I was thinking about making a hint, but the results discouraged me. ĸen -- Do you not know that, what you belittle by the name tree is but the mere four-dimensional analogue of a whole multidimensional universe which - no, I can see you do not. -- Druellae (a Dryad) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
