Actually Parabola didn't do that which is why it is blacklisted.
Unfortunately, Handbrake on Trisquel simply uses its own encoders including
FAAC so it needs to be repackaged. I opened in the past a bug report
regarding this:
http://trisquel.info/en/issues/4237
I can confirm this (screenshot here). Please change the priority of this bug
to critical, because its non-free software.
UPDATE: According to aloniv, the HandBrake packages included in the official
repositories also contain the non-free FAAC encoder (and this issue does not
got resolved from 2011-Oct-30). This means that the packages from this PPA
are not less free than the official packages available in
Done. I actually thought that a normal priority was better when I opened the
bug since the software can be used without using the non-free encoder (you
can use other audio encoders such as Vorbis). Since there hasn't been any
activity it seems right to upgrade the status to critical.
Every non-free component of the system, regardless if it is a small part or a
whole program, is considered as a critical bug. You deserve a GNU Buck :).
I saw the comments on the bug list from Nicolás Reynolds back in January
where he was going to make a package without faac.I assumed that had
happened.
I just converted a DVD with libdvdcss2 into an MP4 file with x264 and ffmpeg
AAC encoder using one of the Android presets. It was only a short DVD (30
minutes long) and have been playing it in the background with VLC. Haven't
heard any problems with the audio yet so the encoder, even though
For the best quality per filesize, use x264+Vorbis+Matroska(MKV).
Debian/Sid lists handbrake-gtk (0.9.6-0.0) as containing libfaac0.
Parabolo have blacklisted the package.
Handbrake listed the inclusion of the faac encoder as a critical bug nearly 2
years ago due to licensing issues but it hasn't been addressed as yet.
When comparing encoding performance and output quality, which one is better?
I ask because if ffmpeg is on the same level or better, then the removal of
FAAC should happen very soon. If FAAC is better, then I can understand their
decisions to keep it in there until they get ffmpeg on the
I presume that it's been packaged without libfaac0? That's what Parabola has
done.
I know with some copyrighted software like Firefox that in order to make
personal changes, you cannot call it Firefox and that's why there is Icecat,
Iceweasel, and Abrowser.
Does this apply to Handbrake as well? Now that 0.9.6 has support for ffmpeg's
AAC encoder as an option, it would be
I saw this too as well. Does the new AAC encoder replace FAAC or is it
supplemental?
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