On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> 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 another overlay (which on is best?) I wondered > what might be in the normal portage database that others here use for > this purpose?
I use dvd::rip (media-video/dvdrip) to rip DVDs in general. You can use MP4box (media-video/gpac) to convert other container formats to MP4 if the audio and video are already in the proper format. For transcoding files, ffmpeg can probably do everything.
