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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 16:09, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'm getting a Kindle Fire in a few days. While I didn't get it |
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> specifically to watch movies looking at the specs it does apparently |
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> handle mp4 as a video format and they state online that you can watch |
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> streaming movies & TV shows from Amazon's servers. I do a lot of blood |
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> donations - roughly 20-25 times/year - that take 2-3 hours each so |
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> either being able to read or watch a movie would be a pleasant way to |
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> pass the time. Being able to hold it comfortably in one hand is |
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> important to me. |
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> I started looking around in Google for something to encode a few DVDs |
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> so that I could see how well it works. A program called handbrake was |
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> showing up in a lot of links, but it requires an overlay. While I have |
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> no problem adding yet another overlay (which on is best?) I wondered |
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> what might be in the normal portage database that others here use for |
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> this purpose? |
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I use vobcopy to rip each title to a vob (instead of VTS_${TITLE}_$n) |
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then 2-pass ffmpeg the vob to transcode to mkv. |
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Makes batch transcoding rather fast and painless. |
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