[gentoo-user] DVD->mp4 - handbrake vs something else

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

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?

Thanks,
Mark

c2stable ~ # eix handbrake
* media-video/handbrake
     Available versions:  0.9.3!f[7] ~0.9.4[9] ~0.9.5[2] ~0.9.5[3]
~0.9.5[4] ~0.9.5_p4039[6] ~0.9.5_p4039[8] ~0.9.5_p4210[6]
~999-r3890[5] ~9999[1] ~9999[2] ~9999[4] ~9999[5] {(+)css doc (-)gtk
-qt4}
     Homepage:            http://handbrake.fr/
     Description:         Open-source DVD to MPEG-4 converter.

[1] "dottout" layman/dottout
[2] "flora" layman/flora
[3] "foo-overlay" layman/foo-overlay
[4] "init6" layman/init6
[5] "je_fro" layman/je_fro
[6] "multimedia" layman/multimedia
[7] "rubenqba" layman/rubenqba
[8] "sabayon" layman/sabayon
[9] "wish" layman/wish
c2stable ~ #