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 1RJWuf-0006e3-Cm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:50:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A76A21C12D; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:50:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-dy0-f53.google.com (mail-dy0-f53.google.com [209.85.220.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4753521C074 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dyj10 with SMTP id 10so182005dyj.40 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:48:03 -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=dPMtJBcGrcryKfxpUmlP7dIzQz0k2AGhjTU9yvFoUUY=; b=sSmwh4k+hvPBIoi8fJlNtdmRcvRoXe8TOgZ2MzfYG9P2wbt1ARUSSXvzAsze9esqxx DSXZuA3KTQczqtlSHqHcws+DhsZsA1Yd6ph+aBbLfI5gz37rbNOsznUz9rNdngGY9XVI DmL2UN3Rdbr+bVxLjrdmKHPJnvmFQmHRd3WuM= 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 10.182.164.74 with SMTP id yo10mr6779305obb.69.1319748482788; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:48:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.38.42 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:48:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20111027211745.5ef27a67@digimed.co.uk> References: <20111027211745.5ef27a67@digimed.co.uk> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:48:02 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVD->mp4 - handbrake vs something else From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 40c35db24c8c7d47dae0972c14a6e3b3 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? Thanks, Mark