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On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Andrey Moshbear <andrey.vul@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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Thanks. Here's my progress so far using a Casablanca DVD as a test case. |
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Again, my goal by the middle of next month is to run videos on the |
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Kindle Fire. The spec sheets for the Fire says it's supports mp4. I |
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don't see any other obvious video formats. |
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1) I tried vobcopy. I got 6GB of files. I assumed ffmpeg was the next |
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step but didn't easily Google how to run it in this specific case so I |
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set it aside for the moment. |
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2) Tried dvd::rip because it was in portage. It got through the rip |
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portion of the job but then apparently couldn't find it's own files to |
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do the encoding. I tried joining the dvd:rip email list but I'm still |
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waiting for the moderator to accept me 3 days later so there's no |
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where appropriate for me to ask questions on using dvd::rip. |
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3) I tried handbrake which requires using an overlay. |
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3a) Tried the sabayon overlay but it wants to change too many files on |
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my system so I dropped that. |
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3b) Tried the multimedia overlay because it had the most up to date |
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version of handbrake. Unfortunately that didn't build |
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3c) Tried the init6 overlay with provided handbrake-0.9.5 which built |
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correctly and runs fine. |
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Handbrake goes directly from DVD to a reasonably sized (1.3GB) m4v |
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file. That file plays fine in xine and looks very good. Being that the |
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Kindle Fire only has about 6GB available for user content that gives |
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me 4 movies at a time which is fine for me but I suspect I can do |
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better. |
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My issue now (I think) is to learn to use ffmpeg to convert from m4v |
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to mp4. I'd like to see about reducing the file size a bit if |
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possible. At the same time the native resolution of the Fire is |
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1024x600 so I'm wondering about whether I can make the movies look |
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better by making the mp4 file somehow know about that size. |
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Anyway, I'v made reasonable progress for a few days of sporadic |
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effort. Hopefully I'll be able to make more by Nov. 15th. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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