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

2011-10-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-11-01, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Grant Edwards >> If you mean you want the files encoded at a resolution of 1024x600, >> you can tell handbrake what output resolution you want. ??You'll get >> far better results by encoding to the desired resolution, format an

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

2011-10-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-10-30, Mark Knecht wrote: >> I'd like to see about reducing the file size a bit if >> possible. At the same time the native resolution of the Fire is >> 1024x600 so I'm wondering about whether I can make the movies look >> better b

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

2011-10-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-30, Mark Knecht wrote: > 3) I tried handbrake which requires using an overlay. No, it doesn't. You can just grab the ebuild file and use it locally. > Handbrake goes directly from DVD to a reasonably sized (1.3GB) m4v > file. That file plays fine in xine and looks very good. Being t

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

2011-10-28 Thread James
Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > I started looking around in Google for something to encode a few DVDs > 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 b

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

2011-10-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-27, Mark Knecht 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 a