On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> 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 online that you can watch >> streaming movies & TV shows from Amazon's servers. > > You may not need to bother with transcoding. I looked at this for my Asus > Transformer and spent time with mencoder settings etc trying to get the > right format for the Android supported video formats. Then I discovered > Moboplayer in the android market, that uses software decoding to play > just about anything, so I just rip the DVD titles as MPEG2, no > transcoding needed at all. If the Fire's CPU can handle software > decoding, this is a much simpler, and higher quality, solution. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
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 how open Amazon intends to make the device. What do you use to rip DVDs to MPEG2? dvdrip? Some command line app? Thanks, Mark
