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 1RJWqF-0004sF-HC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:46:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77D2F21C10A; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:46:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D3221C085 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:44:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi36 with SMTP id 36so4426262wwi.10 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:44:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=AIoSVBSqeUsb7SNjVuXS36+QiTjefakqAUj8s6JeSjg=; b=vV1FH+bzc1X2K9YQe1a7dfcdFIJiFS4S7lJzoU53Bpws3LVOpSSJX6bixTULSfuZOX u/Jt2Gmd2BUn1e0nCNj3oU2GpleMKJrpXIDukpCbqn6CXz/aAQAaVtw8V3ipFFMA1wqJ iiJyIkll5+YIpj4zBi69XJQMYfLaJ2crFZfNY= Received: by 10.227.202.71 with SMTP id fd7mr18251054wbb.9.1319748274140; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:44:34 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.227.27.68 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:44:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Paul Hartman Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:44:14 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Cw6xs7vhBZnHoONpl156wweAeWo Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVD->mp4 - handbrake vs something else To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b40debb0fe95b01e8f201a530bc78996 On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > I started looking around in Google for something to encode a few DVDs > so that I could see how well it works. A program called handbrake was > showing up in a lot of links, but it requires an overlay. While I have > no problem adding yet another overlay (which on is best?) I wondered > what might be in the normal portage database that others here use for > this purpose? I use dvd::rip (media-video/dvdrip) to rip DVDs in general. You can use MP4box (media-video/gpac) to convert other container formats to MP4 if the audio and video are already in the proper format. For transcoding files, ffmpeg can probably do everything.