Handbrake 0.9.3 on Ubuntu 8.04

Handbrake is wonderful. And now it’s even better – since you can now encode from any source, not just DVDs.

Anyways, on the download page they have available a .deb for Ubuntu 8.10. That’s fine and dandy, but I’m running 8.04. So time to compile!

Following the guide – you’ll eventually encounter an error like

LibX264 ./lib/libx264.a
patching file encoder/slicetype.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 487 (offset 108 lines).
Found yasm 0.5.0.1591
Minimum version is yasm-0.6.1 or nasm-2.0
If you really want to compile without asm, configure with –disable-asm.

    cd dirname ./x264.tar.gz && CONTRIB=pwd &&
    rm -rf x264 && (gzip -dc x264.tar.gz | tar xf – ) &&
    cd x264 &&  patch -p0 < ../patch-x264-idr.patch &&
    bash ./configure –prefix=$CONTRIB –enable-pthread &&
    make libx264.a && cp libx264.a $CONTRIB/lib/ && cp x264.h $CONTRIB/include/ && strip -S $CONTRIB/lib/libx264.a

…failed LibX264 ./lib/libx264.a …

The issue is that the yasm version in the 8.04 repository is too old. So you need to build your own version.

$sudo apt-get remove –purge yasm 
$wget http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-0.7.2.tar.gz 
$tar xvzf yasm-0.7.2.tar.gz 
$cd yasm-0.7.2 
$./configure 
$make 
$sudo checkinstall

Once that’s set, you should be able to build Handbrake with no issues. Hooray!