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The latest installation instructions for HandBrake
Hello Linux Geeksters. For those who don’t know, HandBrake is an open-source multiplatform multithreaded video transcoder. It is used for converting DVD or Bluray discs to formats like MP4, MKV, H.264, MPEG-4 or other formats. You can also encode audio files like AAC, MP3, Flac, AC3 etc. The latest version available is HandBrake 0.9.9. 
In this article I will show you how to install HandBrake 0.9.9 on Debian Jessie, Debian Sid and Debian Wheezy.
For Debian Sid, HandBrake 0.9.9 is available via repository, so installing it is easy. All you have to do is:
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install handbrake
For Debian Jessie and Debian Wheezy, there is no deb package of HandBrake 0.9.9 available, so we have to install it from sources. Follow the above instructions exactly, in order to get a successful installation:
Install the needed dependencies:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion yasm build-essential autoconf libtool zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libogg-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libsamplerate-dev libxml2-dev libfribidi-dev libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev libass-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 libappindicator-dev
Get the HandBrake 0.9.9 sources from SVN and cd to the newly downloaded folder:
$ svn checkout svn://svn.handbrake.fr/HandBrake/trunk hb-trunk
$ cd hb-trunk
Do the needed configurations:
$ ./configure --enable-ff-mpeg2 --enable-fdk-aac --arch=x86_64 --optimize=speed
Compile and install HandBrake 0.9.9:
$ cd build
$ make
$ sudo make install