[Dev] [Fwd: handbrake-cli uses non free FAAC encoder]

alonivtsan alonivtsan at gmail.com
Thu Nov 22 11:30:50 GMT 2012


Sorry meant package "handbrake" instead of "handbrake-gtk"

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: alonivtsan <alonivtsan at gmail.com>
> To: dev at list.parabolagnulinux.org
> Subject: handbrake-cli uses non free FAAC encoder
> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:24:25 +0200
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The package handbrake-cli should be blacklisted in your-freedom package.
> A simple test shows this, e.g typing this in the terminal with input
> replaced by any video which contains audio
> "HandBrakeCLI -i input -o output.mp4" 
> shows the output file uses FAAC.
> 
> Apparently, handbrake can also use a free AAC encoder now so a libre
> version of handbrake-gtk and handbrake-cli might be possible to build.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Alon.





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