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 shows from Amazon's servers. I do a lot of blood
> donations - roughly 20-25 times/year - that take 2-3 hours each so
> either being able to read or watch a movie would be a pleasant way to
> pass the time. Being able to hold it comfortably in one hand is
> important to me.
>
> 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 vobcopy to rip each title to a vob (instead of VTS_${TITLE}_$n)
then 2-pass ffmpeg the vob to transcode to mkv.
Makes batch transcoding rather fast and painless.
