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 1Ol6C0-0001iT-Ic for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:22:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7049BE063F; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:21:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01ECFE063F for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:21:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwe5 with SMTP id 5so6141952qwe.40 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:21:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wqOlVtAT3CHgXndJ9tyXyjlZ4IK4nVdbyttarAR7hgY=; b=W3vATS42UyTateh/qZnx3LGQ71VLzGC5ACx+8yc/+qQRVd0cuxLDei6zIA+Cds6Vqx GpSe1V/DAaDXWbf6xw8f+I7Zd62L/lnaX0ClwmKpJyS2UIoMaNjvsB2ZcVMeQG9vl3rf d2pRQB/eBwelp9ENJVwmH/bRYihoVq1bJp3kM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=DgiY4LXcEhd8VCYUFKeIJgXE4X98cmNE1V9buE3n+ND8DU3aqeSnzBhP6SPLpPZnRh w7txC3UUIFvzEldAx/FhEttAo7TaSI41PgpPqDvb2yyDj6ZJBkSuVM8k/rJ3ySZ045j1 /ky+IwogEOMA3yiav2HVjs6piUHUr7RcUGWxY= 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 Received: by 10.224.59.145 with SMTP id l17mr3649079qah.287.1281990062465; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:21:02 -0700 (PDT) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.238.21 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:21:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <9363C3DB-A0B7-420A-9DA3-AAE8538F5FDE@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:21:02 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: K_TydYSsheQHT8m_NggucfNJwmo Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 47239090-2dd9-4972-9e3e-d52483aa63c9 X-Archives-Hash: e2605c43a8b0b172d1c8f5c17dacdae3 On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote= : > My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my came= ra > broke, and I had to get > one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for.=A0 I wound up wi= th a > fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera > and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive.=A0 The prob= lem > is that its videos are MP4s, > which are definitely not ready to put on a web site, and I know nothing > about transcoding.=A0=A0 My previous > camera took acceptable .avi videos, which had worked with most folks > browsers.=A0 The MP4s are huge > and in a weakly supported format. You might want to check out kdenlive which is a full-featured video editor (using mlt as backend) but includes a simple transcoding function and several presets for many different formats (with the added bonus that you'll be able to edit your raw video should you so desire).