From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ol1O8-0003Zs-SI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:14:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0217DE08C4; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:13:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f181.google.com (mail-px0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C189CE08C4 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:13:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi5 with SMTP id 5so2738775pxi.40 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:13:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=C8+buz08uLqbWiZcHWSRU9oVrZStQc1B99Aw4bMZsU0=; b=XBGRU5fCKRKmWQ8ouBQ2sTuX/Bs6sn4QQLVOgCtAilwZEhnvd9QGYkNkBmCsiMaJ29 8DETOcLpXrYJLRQbBMuQTouVSZn102svxVbZx2CK/CKzHOALF7WQKQ7RO3EpT6cN6sS+ Clnr/1eY5Zjf9h+YcHMLiE353nSrOua5OmI5Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=uZpdkniwVqgkE4LogudBPxCj7/2Mr9LBgZEeXXAlmy0/5GEY5ijiuMB6UOitshMt4i B9uD7jBruPdnsYzPMV2byjCu7lw/7PJfg7G7EqEDvA0mVgFcYnGbtwvpujPr+P1vwUMs QrUrZGiBpDRpbfd+nbdHSqLoLaYQCBfVI3noM= Received: by 10.115.14.6 with SMTP id r6mr6328505wai.8.1281971604247; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.12] ([209.20.133.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k23sm12361867waf.17.2010.08.16.08.13.23 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:13:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C695592.1050408@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:13:22 -0700 From: Bill Longman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100727 Thunderbird/3.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage References: <9363C3DB-A0B7-420A-9DA3-AAE8538F5FDE@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f56b80f5-6e76-4f9c-a305-509abfe03ccd X-Archives-Hash: 36a0ea9965906c0ed739d733095ef528 On 08/15/2010 08:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my > camera broke, and I had to get > one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up > with a fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera > and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive. The > problem is that its videos are MP4s, > which are definitely not ready to put on a web site, and I know nothing > about transcoding. My previous > camera took acceptable .avi videos, which had worked with most folks > browsers. The MP4s are huge > and in a weakly supported format. > > I'm somewhere on the learning curve, obviously, but having trouble > getting coherent advice. I know several big-brained video geeks and most of them just use mplayer's mencoder app to do their transcoding. Or they write their own code. Your choice.