How to Compile Handbrake in Linux

The open-source video transcoder, Handbrake operates from the Linux command line. You can use Handbrake to encode your videos and convert them. Before you can use Handbrake, you need to install the necessary libraries, get the source code and compile the program. The process is similar in Ubuntu and Fedora. However, you will need different libraries depending upon your distribution.

Instructions

Ubuntu

1. Open a terminal session. Type the following:

   sudo apt-get install subversion yasm build-essential autoconf libtool zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev intltool libglib2.0-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgudev-1.0-dev libwebkit-dev libnotify-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev

   Press "Enter."

2. Type "svn checkout svn://svn.handbrake.fr/HandBrake/trunk hb-trunk" and press "Enter." Type "cd /hb-trunk" and press "Enter."

3. Type "./configure --launch" and press "Enter."

4. Type "cd /build" and press "Enter."

5. Type "sudo make install" and press "Enter."

Fedora

1. Open a terminal session. Type the following (with quotation marks where indicated):

   su -c yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries" "X Software Development" "GNOME Software Development"

   Press "Enter." Then type the following:

   su -c yum install yasm zlib-devel bzip2-devel dbus-glib-devel libgudev1-devel webkitgtk-devel libnotify-devel gstreamer-devel gstreamer-plugins-base-devel

   Press "Enter."

2. Type "svn checkout svn://svn.handbrake.fr/HandBrake/trunk hb-trunk" and press "Enter." Type "cd /hb-trunk" and press "Enter."

3. Type "./configure --launch" and press "Enter."

4. Type "cd /build" and press "Enter."

5. Type "su -c make install" and press "Enter."

References

• Handbrake: Build-Linux