Have it working fine now. Resolution: Use Stebbins PPA. I was using one called handbrake-ubuntu and supposedly got a version 0.9.4. The new one behaves very differently right away and pops up the controls without me having to do anything special. I'll guess that there are other not-so-helpful ppa's out there. Thanks to all who replied. Best, JN On 11/19/2011 03:29 PM, Peter Meyer wrote: > Hi John: > > I am running > > handbrake-gtk 0.9.5ppa1~lucid1 > > I use a ppa maintained by John Stebbins at: > https://launchpad.net/~stebbins/+archive/handbrake-releases > > Good luck. I hope you can get it working at your end. > > Peter > > -=-=-=- > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 14:13, John C Nash <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca <mailto:nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca>> > wrote: > > Hmm. I wonder why I'm getting no active buttons i.e., to start the transcoding. I suspect > I'm missing some library or other. Can you tell me what version of handbrake you have > installed and how you installed it? dvdrip works, but slooooowwwww. > > JN > > > On 11/19/2011 01:55 PM, Peter Meyer wrote: > > I run Handbrake occasionally on Ubuntu Lucid. It works wells, albeit only > > for mp4 (I think other plugins are available). It also runs super fast as > > it will use every processor on your computer if it can to render/transcode > > your video. > > > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux mailing list > > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca <mailto:Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca> > > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > >