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Handbrake for Ubuntu

Original from http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/287
(modified slightly to fix url issue and update to 0.71)

sudo apt-get install nasm build-essential devscripts fakeroot
mkdir ~/tmp
cd tmp
wget http://apt.cerkinfo.be/pool/main/x264/x264_0.0.20050906-1.diff.gz
wget http://apt.cerkinfo.be/pool/main/x264/x264_0.0.20050906-1.dsc
wget http://apt.cerkinfo.be/pool/main/x264/x264_0.0.20050906.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source -x x264_0.0.20050906-1.dsc
cd x264-0.0.20050906/
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
sudo apt-get install debhelper libgtk2.0-dev jam nasm liba52-dev libavcodec-dev libdvdcss2-dev libdvdread3-dev libfaac-dev libmpeg2-4-dev liblame-dev libmp4v2-dev libogg-dev libsamplerate-dev libvorbis-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev libx264-dev libxvidcore-dev
wget http://www.mirrors.ausmac.net/ftp/AudioVisual-SW/HandBrake/HandBrake-0.7.1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf HandBrake-0.7.1.tar.gz
cd HandBrake-0.7.1
jam
sudo cp HBTest /usr/local/bin/handbrake

Make movies like this:
handbrake -e xvid -E ac3 -2 -S 1400 -i /dev/cdrom -o MOVIENAME.avi

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