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 1RKTku-0008V1-WA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:40:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1832621C039; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01A3521C024 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:39:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by faai28 with SMTP id i28so6059555faa.40 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:39:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=F7ByrfgJYD47dWHE2Fa0z6iM8tbR0UrT706YswHIxGw=; b=g574JSe8sbfv2n4JHx0m3sXgQFmcy6jFMZLKq0JbWvsFu/Bgesp2JyvemiWS1gS9Xe Lv/XIqFgld8VJzTY3Hc5XyUzbLBmya2kVQM6AnZRpCKVuIuifNOdCShCCNwyNhOESISI +o/wWEbl2k95SBDx0ARSVP1AN91Av4ZqOTh1w= Received: by 10.223.1.12 with SMTP id 12mr11996546fad.32.1319974775177; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:39:35 -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 Received: by 10.223.102.65 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:39:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Andrey Moshbear Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:39:14 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVD->mp4 - handbrake vs something else To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 72c0faafe431bb17f4c36c156f1df4b7 On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 16:09, 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. I do a lot of blood > donations - roughly 20-25 times/year - that take 2-3 hours each so > either being able to read or watch a movie would be a pleasant way to > pass the time. Being able to hold it comfortably in one hand is > important to me. > > 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 vobcopy to rip each title to a vob (instead of VTS_${TITLE}_$n) then 2-pass ffmpeg the vob to transcode to mkv. Makes batch transcoding rather fast and painless.