Compiling HandBrake for Linux under Fedora

HandBrake is not only great a great software for Linux, but also a great software that really works and works perfectly well. It is not normally available from standard repos but it compiles pretty painless from SVN. As soon as it uses its own “built-in” versions of ffmpeg, x264 and other tools, plugins and codecs it works flawless and produces great results leaving video files quality produced under Windows with same bitrates look miserable when compared.

The below is based on http://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/CompileGuide#cli and my yesterday’s experience of compiling it (mature Fedora 10).

Pre-requisites

You need to make sure that development tools and needed gstreamer plugins are installed.

sudo yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries" "X Software Development" "GNOME Software Development"

sudo yum -y update gtk2-devel

sudo yum -y install yasm zlib-devel bzip2-devel dbus-glib-devel hal-devel webkitgtk-devel libnotify-devel gstreamer-devel gstreamer-plugins-base-devel gstreamer-plugins-bad-devel gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-good-devel gstreamermm-devel gstream-devel

sudo yum -y install webkit-sharp-devel WebKit-gtk-devel WebKit-gtk ghc-gio

For the first-time installation, issue the following:

mkdir -p ~/software
cd ~/software
svn co svn://svn.handbrake.fr/HandBrake/trunk handbrake

When upgrading:

cd ~/software/handbrake
rm -rf build
svn update

Then goes the most regular stuff:

./configure
cd build
make
sudo make install

HandBrake (Linux, Fedora 10) in GNOME menu	HandBrake (Linux, Fedora 10) main window
HandBrake (Linux, Fedora 10) current version	HandBrake (Linux, Fedora 10) - Picture Settings

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