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 1RJWyS-0008WN-AD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:54:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB01B21C0BB; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:54:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F6521C12E for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:53:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzs8 with SMTP id zs8so173802bkb.40 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:53:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=dZnJb8KeL7olVRvsf3ZnlHWsrlBied/G2xyz8ftMQIw=; b=iq9Zbi2tW4V6/tvK9FA00bY/aYRAClfLnYzpV6RIP92/UgFgeRTFbxUz/2P+Y1HUTZ i1vRuAffZfxS4WM1BueOVO3ciJihChfj2I/AIvitQn4isW33GQcLjhJH1ElNUOMOcw58 zh8rbpwfRXQZ8YW6QVTx5crDIr9YTAYEq5MGI= 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 10.204.140.81 with SMTP id h17mr748448bku.101.1319748829061; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:53:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.37.16 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:53:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20111027211745.5ef27a67@digimed.co.uk> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:53:48 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVD->mp4 - handbrake vs something else From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b9a92795168863b6ce6f40a9af1adfdd On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:09:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> I'm getting a Kindle Fire in a few days. While I didn't get it >>> specifically to watch movies looking at the specs it does apparently >>> handle mp4 as a video format and they state online that you can watch >>> streaming movies & TV shows from Amazon's servers. >> >> You may not need to bother with transcoding. I looked at this for my Asus >> Transformer and spent time with mencoder settings etc trying to get the >> right format for the Android supported video formats. Then I discovered >> Moboplayer in the android market, that uses software decoding to play >> just about anything, so I just rip the DVD titles as MPEG2, no >> transcoding needed at all. If the Fire's CPU can handle software >> decoding, this is a much simpler, and higher quality, solution. >> >> >> -- >> Neil Bothwick > > Thanks for the ideas Neil. I'll keep it in mind. I'm not the least bit > clear whether there will be the equivalent of the Android market for > the Fire, at least early on. Long term I suspect there might be, but > at this point I don't know how open Amazon intends to make the device. > > What do you use to rip DVDs to MPEG2? dvdrip? Some command line app? On Ubuntu, I used the dvdrip package, as I could run it under screen and churn through five DVD-ROM drives, one to an instance. I don't know where that sits on Gentoo, though. -- :wq