HandBrake

The wonderful software HandBrake only gets official releases once a year. In computing terms, this is a lifetime and all those marvellous advances in video jiggerypokery will be lost.

So, we install the latest SVN version that the programmers are working on today!

svn checkout svn://svn.handbrake.fr/HandBrake/trunk hb-trunk cd hb-trunk ./configure --launch --disable-gtk cd build/ make install

That's it! This will install the 12Mb binary file into /usr/local/bin/HandBrakeCLI

To test you have it working...

HandBrakeCLI --update

...and you will see the SVN version number.

[22:44:56] hb_init: checking for updates [22:44:56] Using http://handbrake.fr/appcast_unstable.xml [22:44:56] latest: 0.9.4, build 2009112300 [22:44:56] hb_init: checking cpu count [22:44:56] hb_init: starting libhb thread HandBrake svn3477 (2010081201) - Linux i686 - http://handbrake.fr Your version of HandBrake is up to date.

Enjoy!