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 1RKaUx-0000XC-A0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:52:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62D3021C03E; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:52:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C8921C020 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:51:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB7D51B401E for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:51:38 +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 adoUQr9kqL9n for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:51:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9541B4017 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:51:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RKaTe-0006FO-CN for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:51:26 +0100 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:51:26 +0100 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:51:26 +0100 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: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:51:12 +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: fe8bd9b2d3acc5128558cac5fab4c87a On 2011-10-30, Mark Knecht wrote: > 3) I tried handbrake which requires using an overlay. No, it doesn't. You can just grab the ebuild file and use it locally. > Handbrake goes directly from DVD to a reasonably sized (1.3GB) m4v > file. That file plays fine in xine and looks very good. Being that the > Kindle Fire only has about 6GB available for user content that gives > me 4 movies at a time which is fine for me but I suspect I can do > better. Smaller will generally mean worse looking and longer encoding time. > My issue now (I think) is to learn to use ffmpeg to convert from m4v > to mp4. You don't need ffmpeg. You just need "mv": mv foo.m4v foo.mp4 > I'd like to see about reducing the file size a bit if > possible. At the same time the native resolution of the Fire is > 1024x600 so I'm wondering about whether I can make the movies look > better by making the mp4 file somehow know about that size. If you mean you want the files encoded at a resolution of 1024x600, you can tell handbrake what output resolution you want. You'll get far better results by encoding to the desired resolution, format and bit-rate you want the first time than you will re-encoding a second time. You can create your own presets with whatever encoding settings you want. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! World War III? at No thanks! gmail.com