jdong,

Here's a run down of the contrib library situation in handbrake that
I hope will help you.

One of the points to recognize it that substituting a supposedly
compatible version of a library can cause user support issues for
us if there is some unexpected problem. Static linking these
quickly evolving libraries gives us predictable results.

a52dec - 0.7.4
patch to allow downmix to dolby prologic ii

faad2 2.6.1
patch to configure.ac so it will build with libtool 2.2.x

ffmpeg svn 15462
patch for building on beos
patch that adds aac-latm codec
patch fixes memory leak provoked by h264 streams with lots of errors
patch for cygwin
patch for solaris

libdca svn 81
newer than released version

libdvdread 0.9.7
patch for os x, changes path to dvdcss
patch for cygwin, configure fixes

faac
patch for cygwin configure

lame version 3.98

libmp4v2 svn 45
project was stagnant. using a fork that has picked up development

libmkv 0.6.3

mpeg2dec 0.5.1

libogg 1.1.3

libsamplerate 0.1.4

libvorbis aotuv fork b5

libtheora 1.0

libx264 git 1028
patch for cygwin configure
patch for solaris build scripts
patch to allow forcing an IDR frame

xvidcore 1.1.3
patch for os x configure
patch for cygwin configure
patch configure to recognize nasm 2.0