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 1RJWpg-0004lV-J8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:45:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69D6621C0F5; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:45:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE8821C065 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:44:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42AA866A46 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:44:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.01 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.218, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.504, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL=0.01] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id P9O8NqknGAB1 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:44:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B7E1B401E for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:44:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJWnz-0001lp-0R for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:44:03 +0200 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:44:02 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:44:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD->mp4 - handbrake vs something else Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:43:49 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f99d365409b9a3f3c45aa83f78a82844 On 2011-10-27, Mark Knecht wrote: [regarding a kindle fire] > 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. I've been using handbrake for about a year, and it's _very_ convenient. It has "presets" for many popular devices. If it knows about your device, it's going to be hard to beat handbrake. [Best of all, you don't have to put up with some horrible GUI to use it.] I have a 4th gen iPod touch, and handbrake knows the right settings to use for that device, so it's a toddle to use. > While I have no problem adding yet another overlay (which on is > best?) I just stuck the ebuild into /usr/local/portage/media-video and used it from there. > I wondered what might be in the normal portage database that others > here use for this purpose? You could just use mencoder or transcode, but figuring out all the right options to get the best results for a given device is a non-trivial excercise. In the past, I've used both mencoder and transcode to do stuff like this, but it took several evenings of hacking together shell-scripts to drive them. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Is it NOUVELLE at CUISINE when 3 olives are gmail.com struggling with a scallop in a plate of SAUCE MORNAY?