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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:09:24 -0700, Mark Knecht 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. |
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>> You may not need to bother with transcoding. I looked at this for my Asus |
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>> Transformer and spent time with mencoder settings etc trying to get the |
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>> right format for the Android supported video formats. Then I discovered |
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>> Moboplayer in the android market, that uses software decoding to play |
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>> just about anything, so I just rip the DVD titles as MPEG2, no |
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>> transcoding needed at all. If the Fire's CPU can handle software |
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>> decoding, this is a much simpler, and higher quality, solution. |
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>> Neil Bothwick |
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> Thanks for the ideas Neil. I'll keep it in mind. I'm not the least bit |
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> clear whether there will be the equivalent of the Android market for |
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> the Fire, at least early on. Long term I suspect there might be, but |
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> at this point I don't know how open Amazon intends to make the device. |
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> What do you use to rip DVDs to MPEG2? dvdrip? Some command line app? |
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On Ubuntu, I used the dvdrip package, as I could run it under screen |
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and churn through five DVD-ROM drives, one to an instance. I don't |
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know where that sits on Gentoo, though. |
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:wq |
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