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

2011-10-30 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:28, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Andrey Moshbear wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 16:09, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> 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 appare

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

2011-10-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >> Handbrake goes directly from DVD to a reasonably sized (1.3GB) m4v >> file. That file plays fine in xine and looks very good. Being that the >> Kindle Fire only has about 6GB availab

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

2011-10-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Handbrake goes directly from DVD to a reasonably sized (1.3GB) m4v > file. That file plays fine in xine and looks very good. Being that the > Kindle Fire only has about 6GB available for user content that gives > me 4 movies at a time which

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

2011-10-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Andrey Moshbear wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 16:09, Mark Knecht wrote: >> 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 onli

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

2011-10-30 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 16:09, Mark Knecht wrote: > 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 Amazo

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

2011-10-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:48:02 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Thanks for the ideas Neil. I'll keep it in mind. I'm not the least bit > clear whether there will be the equivalent of the Android market for > the Fire, at least early on. Long term I suspect there might be, but > at this point I don't know

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

2011-10-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:09:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> 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

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

2011-10-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:09:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> 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

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

2011-10-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > 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 anoth

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

2011-10-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:09:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > 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

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

2011-10-27 Thread Mark Knecht
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