From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 2 16:01:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F83106568B for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 16:01:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f171.google.com (mail-yx0-f171.google.com [209.85.210.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 209AA8FC1E for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 16:01:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe1 with SMTP id 1so12743363yxe.3 for ; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:01:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=mFp2Z1OYS01sY8ZCwVwlUrrWfEsZwRG9T5bBu+mqseg=; b=epofUQyBq7YYgE/oZTHvdTagLU3aM/BUI2L3tBExr834FBNxBbvnaHr9bpD9TemJkj bEp+O+lQbzSfqPuznxUqNGpxlYI1ygEBfXyGYjA4i85aZ/O257sWqjLpDSQ6h2ZgVM+J kHklWUG/NJ7TRCZ5x9t9TT2lCdYQ+4MRUd0Z4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=klC5qZdwQSblm8aIn2+WHC+zQ/jW23S7kyA8Gm/J2Hawtb5qizl1ye4o3v25QWQ0mu dpJEKYcJEd21Vf6yRTWN7t8AHCaC4uBgAcMZkVMkrkfGYpnMHoOI3Gpy6hXn5/mm74EY IvIx5dNSa9XJpXdmjGrOOkmt4+qll7c//I66c= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.213.18 with SMTP id l18mr31169305ybg.183.1262448068556; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:01:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100102154828.GA22645@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392904F75B@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> <20100102154828.GA22645@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:01:08 -0600 Message-ID: <6201873e1001020801v6563af16pf5daf501d902e351@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: Roland Smith Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Graeme Dargie Subject: Re: This could be a wild goose chase but ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:01:11 -0000 On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Roland Smith 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