[gentoo-user] Re: DVD->mp4 - handbrake vs something else

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-10-27, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> 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.

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