FYI - VLC w/HLS support
I haven't seen mention of it yet so I figured I'd throw it out there - there's a patch for VLC that adds HLS support that seems to work pretty well: http://techblog.unwiredappeal.com/2010/03/vlc-htt...
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I've found that the command line version of HandBrake works much faster than the GUI, but it's probably because I haven't figured out how to match the GUI parameters with the ones I use on the command line. I'm a command line kind of guy anyway, so I haven't looked into it. For the record, here's the options I use:
-JT
HandBrakeCLI -i infile -o outfile.m4v -O -r 29.97 -S sizewhere "size" is the size of the original file in megabytes, (i.e., if the the original file is 348,134,654 bytes then "size" gets replaced with 348).
-JT
