Installing HandBrake on Fedora 13

Handbrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

Installation is straight-forward and much of this material is taken from Compiling HandBrake on Linux

Install the following packages

# yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries" \
"X Software Development" "GNOME Software Development"

# yum install yasm zlib-devel bzip2-devel \
dbus-glib-devel libgudev1-devel webkitgtk-devel libnotify-devel \
gstreamer-devel gstreamer-plugins-base-devel

More Information

1. HandBrake Wiki
2. HandBrake Wiki FAQs
3. HandBrake Site

Another Useful DVD-Backup or DVD-ripping tool is Thoggen. For more information, see Installing Thoggen on Fedora 11