Your changes sounds exactly like what I need to rip DVDs to play them on a DVB UPnP STB using a non-transcoding UPnP media server. I could imagine many people in that situation and as such submitting the changes would make good sense IMHO.

I fully understand the time limitation and suffer badly from it myself. Work, kids, house first – then hobby projects. Usually after midnight

The dca.h problem is part of the DTS Audio support work and not related (directly) to my patch. There’s some information on the forums (search for ‘problems building svn’ on the fix.

I’m not sure why you’re having a problem with hb_stream_t – that’s a new one to me.

It does sound like most of your issues are with the DTS/dca stuff, and I’d look to the handbrake forums for that.

If I have time I’ll try and make sure my patch is up to date for svn head and see if there’s a consensus to get it submitted.

However I cannot get it to work. Exactly what svn version should the latest patch be applied against? In what order should I compile, apply patch etc?

Here are the problem I encountered:

There appear to be an include patch missing in libhb to contrib/libdca/include to find dca.h. However even fixing this does not solve all my build problems.

There is a missing typedef of hb_stream_t (typedef struct hb_stream_s hb_stream_t;
I assume). I wonder how the source would ever comile without this as _t is used elsewhere.

If I build from the XCode project without first having built with Jam, the external libraries are missing.

libtoolize was missing from my system. Do you know which fink package it is part of? I symlinked it to glibtoolize, which brought me a little further, but still there is some configuring during libhb build which fails.

I have extensive knowledge with MPEG2TS&PS as I program DVB digital TV and UPnP player at work. I would like to help out here, but I have little experience with Handbrake apart as a user.
Please drop me a mail and help me help you.