HandBrake Documentation

Installing dependencies on Clear

The following instructions are for Clear 40470 and later.

Basic requirements to run commands:

Dependencies:

Additional dependencies not available in the base repository:

Intel Quick Sync Video dependencies (optional):

Graphical interface dependencies:

Install dependencies.

sudo swupd bundle-add c-basic dev-utils devpkg-bzip2 devpkg-fontconfig devpkg-freetype devpkg-fribidi devpkg-jansson devpkg-harfbuzz devpkg-libass devpkg-libjpeg-turbo devpkg-libogg devpkg-libsamplerate devpkg-libtheora devpkg-libvorbis devpkg-libvpx devpkg-libxml2 devpkg-numactl devpkg-opus devpkg-speex devpkg-xz devpkg-zlib git

Build and install the dependencies not available in the base repository.

# lame
curl -LO https://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/files/lame/3.100/lame-3.100.tar.gz
tar -xf lame-3.100.tar.gz
cd lame-3.100
./configure --enable-shared --enable-static --enable-nasm
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install-strip
cd ..

# x264
curl -LO https://code.videolan.org/videolan/x264/-/archive/master/x264-master.tar.bz2
tar -xf x264-master.tar.bz2
cd x264-master
./configure --enable-shared --enable-static --enable-lto --enable-pic --enable-strip
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
cd ..

# make shared libraries findable
if ! grep '/usr/local/lib' /etc/ld.so.conf >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS:-} -I/usr/local/include"
    export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS:-} -L/usr/local/lib"
    echo 'export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS:-} -I/usr/local/include"' >> "${HOME}/.bashrc"
    echo 'export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS:-} -L/usr/local/lib"' >> "${HOME}/.bashrc"
    echo '/usr/local/lib' | sudo tee --append /etc/ld.so.conf
    sudo ldconfig
fi

To build with Intel Quick Sync Video support, install the QSV dependencies.

sudo swupd bundle-add devpkg-libva devpkg-libdrm

To build the GTK GUI, install the graphical interface dependencies.

sudo swupd bundle-add desktop-dev

Clear is now prepared to build HandBrake. See Building HandBrake for Linux for further instructions.