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 1RJWHf-00087i-9Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:10:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A033A21C073; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:10:29 +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 4730721C052 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:09:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dyj10 with SMTP id 10so178767dyj.40 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:09:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=3ZWqS7OwvQv76qir1/MdnArSrJtRGKlFVRgV1YCsKyA=; b=JUmcCOXnJ8aox3vYirXCEEJVURx0fV6qFaF6A+rDfXR2/9zgtGPmUYfztmgxyQzNf1 UYosYzTIwPzMTTrI6uderTch99aIbiz5VwtXbc9WuVJS5lkAWKem32u8BI/UpSr9eK2K MOJz+faV85NZu9b5KxsL9NqJFF35rry9f7zrI= 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 10.182.111.33 with SMTP id if1mr2510040obb.29.1319746164690; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.38.42 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:09:24 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] DVD->mp4 - handbrake vs something else From: Mark Knecht To: Gentoo User Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 65f09c0c3a970c5bf5e24138b0d8a7d4 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 ~ #