On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
On Ubuntu, I used the dvdrip package, as I could run it under screen and churn through five DVD-ROM drives, one to an instance. I don't know where that sits on Gentoo, though. -- :wq
