Hi Roland I took a peek at MEncoder, seems to work just fine, just a matter of having a play with the settings to get the quality / file size balance correctly, thanks for the hint.
Regards Graeme -----Original Message----- From: Roland Smith [mailto:rsm...@xs4all.nl] Sent: 02 January 2010 15:48 To: Graeme Dargie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: This could be a wild goose chase but ... 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 Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"