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BrakeHand
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Building HandBrake for AMD64

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First of all I have to say that HandBrake is an excellent piece of software. I have used it on Windows XP, but my problem is that my desktop pc is way too old and slow. Since I have a faster AMD64 Linux server I've tried to build HandBrake for AMD64, but I can't get it to work.

Info about my system:
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+
2 GB RAM
Debian 4.0 (etch)
Linux <hostname> 2.6.18-5-amd64 #1 SMP <date> x86_64 GNU/Linux

Installed (relevant) packages includes:
ii autoconf 2.61-4
ii automake 1.10+nogfdl-1
ii devscripts 2.9.26
ii g++ 4.1.1-15
ii g++-4.1 4.1.1-21
ii gcc 4.1.1-15
ii gcc-4.1 4.1.1-21
ii gcc-4.1-base 4.1.1-21
ii jam 2.5rel-1
ii libgcc1 4.1.1-21
ii libtool 1.5.22-4
ii make 3.81-2
ii makedev 2.3.1-83
ii yasm 0.5.0-2
ii zlib1g-dev 1.2.3-13

Version of HandBrake I'm trying to build:
HandBrake-0.9.1.tar.gz (MD5: 0eefe9189d59a0bfd9aeee41fd3d01a2)

Build command:
make

Relevant output:

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[...]
LibXvidCore ./lib/libxvidcore.a 
configure: loading cache 
[...]
...updated 34 target(s)...
[...]
decavcodec.c: In function âdecavcodecWorkâ:
decavcodec.c:108: warning: âavcodec_decode_audioâ is deprecated (declared at ../contrib/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h:2552)
[...]
Shared library libhb.so
/usr/bin/ld: common.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `hb_audio_mixdowns' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
common.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Compile line for libhb.so was:

make[1]: *** [libhb.so] Error 1
make: *** [libhb/libhb.a] Error 2
I've searched both the forum and Google for a solution, but I havn't found anything. Can anyone help?
Last edited by BrakeHand on Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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BrakeHand
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Post by BrakeHand »

Update: Same problem with svn version checked out today (revision 1108)
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s55
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Post by s55 »

You need to run ./configure && jam

You'll also need jam 2.5 installed
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BrakeHand
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Post by BrakeHand »

You need to run ./configure && jam
Thought I could use "make" since that was stated in the BUILD file, but tried again with "./configure && jam" and looks like that was the 'trick'. The command exited without errors and at least "HandBrakCLI -h" works now (haven't tried to actually convert a video yet). Thanx :D
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Post by BrakeHand »

Looks like everything works as it should. If it's of interest to anyone, this is what I did (not sure I needed all the packages though...):

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$ sudo apt-get install make gcc g++ jam autoconf automake libtool libz-dev yasm devscripts subversion
$ svn co svn://handbrake.m0k.org/HandBrake/trunk HandBrake
$ cd HandBrake/
$ ./configure && jam
I'm converting DVD to mp4 for iPod Touch with these settings:

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$ ./HandBrakeCLI -i <path to VIDEO_TS dir> -o <output file> -f mp4 -e x264b30 -s 1 -m -b 720 -Y 320 -E faac -R 48 kHz -B 128 -x cabac=0:ref=1:analyse=all:me=umh:subme=6:no-fast-pskip=1:trellis=1 -2
I'm not sure if the "-R 48 kHz" and "-B 128" combination makes sense, but I hope this will give me a fairly good result. Time (approx. one more hour) will show :)
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Re: Building HandBrake for AMD64

Post by stmiller »

BrakeHand wrote:

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Compile line for libhb.so was:

make[1]: *** [libhb.so] Error 1
make: *** [libhb/libhb.a] Error 2
I've searched both the forum and Google for a solution, but I havn't found anything. Can anyone help?
I had to temporary move /usr/bin/faac and /usr/bin/faad out of the way. The Debian/Ubuntu provided packages for those conflict when building HandBrake.

I have the Brisbane 3600 chip and get about 10FPS faster encoding in 64bit Linux with a 64bit HandBrake.
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Post by fwaokda »

Thanks for following up with what you did. It was great to see considering im new to ubuntu and was looking for a how-to on this exact problem. :wink:
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$ sudo apt-get install make gcc g++ jam autoconf automake libtool libz-dev yasm devscripts subversion
$ svn co svn://handbrake.m0k.org/HandBrake/trunk HandBrake
$ cd HandBrake/
$ ./configure && jam
is there a gui for handbrake if i followed the steps above?
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s55
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Post by s55 »

no
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Post by fwaokda »

is it possible to obtain a gui for it? or is it all terminal based?
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Post by s55 »

There is no working GUI in the SVN. Just code that's a work in progress that doesn't do alot right now.

The only thing that resembles any form of gui is Handbrake GTK (mentioned a few posts below) but its based of very buggy/old pre-release code (for the windows GUI) so It's not recommended for usage. It is also not supported by the HandBrake team. I'm not sure but it doesn't appear to have had any kind of work done on it for a while now so I wouldn't be surprised if its been abandoned.

Much better of just learning the CLI.
http://handbrake.m0k.org/trac/wiki/CLIGuide
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