From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVD->mp4 - handbrake vs something else
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:48:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK2H+ecFBHLuZ8earyuaNEc-VVnXmGks-tJApvfYG1-y9wVJ0Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111027211745.5ef27a67@digimed.co.uk>
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> 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?
Thanks,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-27 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-27 20:09 [gentoo-user] DVD->mp4 - handbrake vs something else Mark Knecht
2011-10-27 20:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-27 20:48 ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2011-10-27 20:53 ` Michael Mol
2011-10-27 21:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-27 20:43 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-10-27 20:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2011-10-28 20:13 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-10-30 11:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrey Moshbear
2011-10-30 15:28 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-30 16:39 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-30 17:17 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-30 18:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-11-01 1:21 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-01 2:53 ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-30 22:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrey Moshbear
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