Comments on: HandBrake 0.9.3

By: happy

happy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:38:27 +0000

I do not think it can replace Visualhub.
It only convert videos to Iphone.

http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Open-Source-to-Build-Isquint-and-Visualhub

By: Jon Rubin

Jon Rubin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:55:12 +0000

It's a little complicated, because of the way HB is set up. User interfaces never interact with the third party libraries directly, only with libhb, which handles all the details. Currently, even libhb doesn't specify the path. See, it's libdvdread that needs the path to libdvdcss, not HandBrake. Right now the dl_open in libdvdread is hard coded to the /Applications path. So to get something more flexible, we need to get some code to allow libhb to tell libdvdread where to look for libdvdcss, and that might require a more invasive patch to that (unmaintained) library. Then it'd just be a matter of adding a parameter to the initialization function for libhb, so it can initialize libdvdread properly, and then wiring the MacGUI up with a proper NS* method to find the right path to fill in that parameter. Anyway, that all was considered a little bit more trouble than it was worth for 0.9.3. It'll probably happen some day, though.

By: Chris Devers

Chris Devers — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:35:17 +0000

In that case, surely the solution is a preference to specify a VLC instance / path along with the other app preferences.

It can default to /Applications, automatically (can we hope?) look in ~/Applications next, or let you specify a version if you have it elsewhere.

By: Jon Rubin

Jon Rubin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:48:27 +0000

It uses a hard-coded path because HandBrake is a developer-centered project, and as developers, we tend to have a crazy number of versions of VLC nightly builds on our computers. This is how we ensure we're getting the right copy.

By: Michael Tsai

Michael Tsai — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:01:30 +0000

Paul Mison: Yes, it should use something like [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] absolutePathForAppBundleWithIdentifier:@"org.videolan.vlc"] to find VLC.

By: Paul Mison

Paul Mison — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:54:12 +0000

Unfortunately, the app looks for VLC with a hardcoded path of /Applications/VLC.app, which doesn't work for me (I keep all non-Apple apps in ~/Applications instead). I'll have to see if I can learn enough ObjC to patch that.