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Date:      Sat, 2 Jan 2010 16:48:28 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Graeme Dargie <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: This could be a wild goose chase but ...
Message-ID:  <20100102154828.GA22645@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392904F75B@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl>
References:  <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392904F75B@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl>

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On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 02:03:10PM -0000, Graeme Dargie wrote:
> Hi=20
>
> I have been trying for a day or two to get
> /usr/ports/multimedia/handbrake to install on 8.0-Release AMD64, the
> port just stops bleating about wanting i386, I did some googling and
> found a supposed patch to cure this so it would install but that does
> not seem to make any difference as the patch does not apply correctly.
> Has anyone managed to get this going on AMD64 or am I just chasing the
> proverbial wild goose ?

Have you looked at alternatives like mencoder, of ffmpeg2theora. They work
just fine on amd64. They use much the same libraries.

Mencoder does H.264 encoding very well, But ffmpeg2theora gives _much_ smal=
ler
files with good quality. It's weakness is that it cannot handle AC3 (dolby
digital) very well. So I like to resample the audio first with mencoder, and
then convert to theora video with ogg audio. For a wide-screen (16:9) DVD m=
ovie;

  mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile movie.mpg
  mencoder -ovc copy -oac mp3lame -idx -o movie.avi movie.mpg
  ffmpeg2theora --sync --aspect 24:10 --croptop 72, --cropbottom 72 \
  -v 7 -c 2 movie.avi

File sizes, to give you an idea:

movie.mpg	6500 MiB
movie.avi	5800 MiB
movie.ovg	1750 MiB

Roland
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