Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:01:08 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Graeme Dargie <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk> Subject: Re: This could be a wild goose chase but ... Message-ID: <6201873e1001020801v6563af16pf5daf501d902e351@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100102154828.GA22645@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392904F75B@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> <20100102154828.GA22645@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 02:03:10PM -0000, Graeme Dargie wrote: > > Hi > > > > 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_ > smaller > 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 > movie; > > 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 > > avidemux2 also works well, least it did last time I tried it. -- Adam Vande More
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