Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:

>
> On 16 Aug 2010, at 01:43, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>  There's a program I really want to use, and I was hoping it existed in
>> Gentoo.
>> It's called handbrake.  eix can't find it.  equery cannot find it.  But
>> there's
>> a bug (#89432) filed against it, with the last comment (#111) just 4 days
>> ago.
>>
>> So where in the portage is handbrake-0.9.4.ebuild?
>>
>
> To expand on Dale's answer, Handbrake is unlikely ever to be in Portage.
>

I don't have that yet.  Maybe it wasn't sent to the list.  But thanks for
that info.

[snippage: why Gentoo does not like handbrake, plus how to try it anyway]

>
> I would have thought you'd already know this if you had fully read bug
> #89432.
>

I might have, but reading 111 comments about a package I've never seen is
more than my brain can do,
but I had suspected something like the result: not gonna happen.

I know that transcoding is a bit of a black art, but I'm not convinced
> Handbrake is actually that good.


Well, I'm a newb in video, but it was suggested to me by someone who uses
it, so I wanted to try.

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.

Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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