From f24c12804060d58af70814acfca775e3e10a198a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander von Gluck IV Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 16:12:20 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] handbrake/statge: Add some notes since this seems to be a thing. --- media-video/handbrake/state.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/media-video/handbrake/state.md b/media-video/handbrake/state.md index 6d7a22ecd..986778344 100644 --- a/media-video/handbrake/state.md +++ b/media-video/handbrake/state.md @@ -13,6 +13,18 @@ include the BeOS GUI. The only way that HandBrake can be used on Haiku at the current moment is using the command line tool HandBrakeCLI. ## HaikuBrake + +### Background / Upstreaming +Between 2014-2016 kallisti5 attempted to upstream some of his changes to +Handbrake to support Haiku (basic build stuff), but the lead developers on +Handbrake were pretty hostle at the time to any kind of Haiku patches being +accepted upstream. + +HaikuBrake was forked to try and make a "Haiku friendly" version of Handbrake, +but after some deep-diving in the code, I kind of gave up. The whole project +is a tangled mess of old vendored libraries glued together with a pretty +frontend. + ### Versioning There has been an attempt to bring the BeOS GUI back to Haiku. @kallisti5's [HaikuBrake](https://github.com/kallisti5/HaikuBrake) is based on a commit with