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 markkne...@gmail.com 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

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 andrey@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 16:09, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com 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

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 markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP 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

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 markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP 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

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 markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Andrey Moshbear andrey@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 16:09, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting a Kindle Fire in a few days. While I didn't get it specifically

[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

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

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 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

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 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

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 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

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