I'm getting a Kindle Fire in a few days. While I didn't get it specifically to watch movies looking at the specs it does apparently handle mp4 as a video format and they state online that you can watch streaming movies & TV shows from Amazon's servers. I do a lot of blood donations - roughly 20-25 times/year - that take 2-3 hours each so either being able to read or watch a movie would be a pleasant way to pass the time. Being able to hold it comfortably in one hand is important to me.
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. While I have no problem adding yet another overlay (which on is best?) I wondered what might be in the normal portage database that others here use for this purpose? Thanks, Mark c2stable ~ # eix handbrake * media-video/handbrake Available versions: 0.9.3!f[7] ~0.9.4[9] ~0.9.5[2] ~0.9.5[3] ~0.9.5[4] ~0.9.5_p4039[6] ~0.9.5_p4039[8] ~0.9.5_p4210[6] ~999-r3890[5] ~9999[1] ~9999[2] ~9999[4] ~9999[5] {(+)css doc (-)gtk -qt4} Homepage: http://handbrake.fr/ Description: Open-source DVD to MPEG-4 converter. [1] "dottout" layman/dottout [2] "flora" layman/flora [3] "foo-overlay" layman/foo-overlay [4] "init6" layman/init6 [5] "je_fro" layman/je_fro [6] "multimedia" layman/multimedia [7] "rubenqba" layman/rubenqba [8] "sabayon" layman/sabayon [9] "wish" layman/wish c2stable ~ #