{"id":5653,"date":"2016-02-12T15:35:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T15:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5653"},"modified":"2016-02-12T15:35:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T15:35:51","slug":"handbrake-0-10-5-drops-fdk-aac-in-its-official-binaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/02\/handbrake-0-10-5-drops-fdk-aac-in-its-official-binaries\/","title":{"rendered":"HandBrake 0.10.5 Drops FDK AAC in Its Official Binaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/handbrake_icon2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/handbrake_icon2.png\" alt=\"handbrake logo\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The popular HandBrake video transcoder  has reached the 0.10.5 release one day ago. Due to licensing issues, the high quality FDK-AAC encoder has been removed from the official binary releases. <\/p>\n<p>This change affects all of the device presets on Windows and Linux. OS X is unaffected because it has always used coreaudio for aac encoding. The LibAV AAC encoder is still present though it does not support HE-AAC. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handbrake.fr\/news.php?article=36\">HandBrake 0.10.5<\/a> features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Removal of FDK AAC from our binary releases. <code>--enable-fdk<\/code> is required for &#8220;non-free&#8221; builds if compiling from source.<\/li>\n<li>Updated x265 to 1.9 which brings bug fixes and performance improvements.<\/li>\n<li>Few minor bug fixes since the 0.10.3 release. This includes improvements in large AVI file handling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/handbrake-0105.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/handbrake-0105-600x366.jpg\" alt=\"handbrake 0.10.5\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter size-large\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Install HandBrake 0.10.5 in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You can either install the new release in Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, and derivatives via the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~stebbins\/+archive\/ubuntu\/handbrake-releases\" target=\"_blank\">official PPA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>launch terminal and run below commands one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins\/handbrake-releases\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk handbrake-cli<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Or compile from source with <code>--enable-fdk<\/code> to plug fdk-aac library. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/trac.handbrake.fr\/wiki\/CompileOnLinux\" target=\"_blank\">compile instructions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To revert back the stock version of HandBrake in Ubuntu, just reinstall <code>handbrake<\/code> via Software Center which will ask to remove <i>handbrake-gtk<\/i> and\/or <i>handbrake-cli<\/i>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular HandBrake video transcoder has reached the 0.10.5 release one day ago. Due to licensing issues, the high quality FDK-AAC encoder has been removed from the official binary releases. This change affects all of the device presets on Windows and Linux. OS X is unaffected because it has always used coreaudio for aac encoding. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}