From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GuQMo-00011w-GV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:25:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBD9LlnH009599; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:21:47 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBD9Huwv032752 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:17:56 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so115682ugc for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:17:56 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=NHWH/tNJ2vmdMHP40roMuB4B2fTeUxHz0MPxHFXP1SsJntkQzG+b4yJeWNlqCAcPY/BNsebSp/YcvZ87DWfoec3CTDGN2NKbY338et+Dbj6gNu+LLaDmdun0hr3NCPJRVm38hp9+BgQHIuRAyrMr5Z6NSEzn1o2rNQbnlyJO7Cc= Received: by 10.66.232.10 with SMTP id e10mr879604ugh.1166001474114; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:17:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy ( [86.140.42.138]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 13sm401526ugb.2006.12.13.01.17.52; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:17:53 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Specifying file size in dvd::rip Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:26:33 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200612112302.40877.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200612121235.17053.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <457F33F2.7090809@digital-trauma.de> In-Reply-To: <457F33F2.7090809@digital-trauma.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1237066.dBlWz7g8RS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200612130826.46218.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 330659a1-aa50-470b-82e8-4cf0a95c6073 X-Archives-Hash: f8c623fc22f8385853b4854e3a343d43 --nextPart1237066.dBlWz7g8RS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 12 December 2006 22:57, Thomas R=F6sner wrote: > Without going into too much detail, that's something different. XviD is > a dialect of MPEG-4. H.264 is a different, newer standard. MPEG-2 is yet > another standard used on DVD's (=3Dooold ;-)). Hardware players can do > MPEG-2, some can do DivX/some parts of MPEG-4 and XviD if you are > careful not to enable the advanced coding options. I know of none doing > H.264. > > Then there are containers: mp2 (only mpeg2), mp4 (only mpeg4), avi > (anything, but limited), ogg (anything), mkv (anything and more, not in > DVD::Rip last time I checked). > > If you don't care about HW players, you might find ogg a better > container format then avi (uses less space, audio/video don't get out of > sync as easily, multiple Audio tracks/subtitels supported...). Thanks, I'll try ogg next to see if there is a difference on my laptop. I= =20 noticed that a lot of artifacts which are visible on the desktop (with its= =20 crt monitor) are not showing at all on the laptop. > Hm, or stay with avi, I don't want to confuse you. All of this is a bit > of voodoo. :) Tell me about it! It can be a bit daunting for the uninitiated. > > xvid is the default codec selection. I can't find h264 in the transcode > > options. > > ffmpeg does, it's a library providing different codecs. Thanks again for your help. :) =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1237066.dBlWz7g8RS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFf7lG5Fp0QerLYPcRAidRAJ9cbMN3r1EXlPGoD453P/MrA0nMjQCeJI4N A8pWIioiCViU6cqBf8FfqRs= =CQWa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1237066.dBlWz7g8RS-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list