How should I convert video files?

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Take this video for example

http://uk.media.games.ign.com/articles/693...580/vids_1.html

IGN Weekly. 40 minutes or there abouts, 320x180 resolution, 128mb file size. While it looks great and the audio is fine the frame rate is terrible.

Ideally I want a program that will convert most video files into the perfect format for my HTC Tornado and play on the media player.

I probably have a program already installed on my PC that can do it. But what numbers would you people reccomend?

Resolution, format, fps, bitrate e.t.c.

The HTC Tornado screen was built with widescreen in mind, it would be such a shame to miss out on its excellent video playback capabillities.

[Guest pd.ryder]

Have you tried PocketDivX. I'm not sure if will convert wmv but it's ace with avi and mpg formats ;) There's no need to worry about frame rates and all that - you just tell it the max screen res and it does everything for you.

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Thats a very, very good program. But theres a problem.

I have only had one go with it. It produced a very good convertion, very quickly. A futurama episode converted into a 70mb filesize. But this was with all of the quality levels on max. I am pretty sure the HTC tornado can handle more.

Shame the program writers put so low quality limitors for smartphone on it, and with no contact email address or forums I cannot make a suggestion.

I know increased resolution will mean increased file size, but I have a 2gb card behind it.

[Guest Nicnatros]

Take this video for example

http://uk.media.games.ign.com/articles/693...580/vids_1.html

IGN Weekly.  40 minutes or there abouts, 320x180 resolution, 128mb file size.  While it looks great and the audio is fine the frame rate is terrible.

Ideally I want a program that will convert most video files into the perfect format for my HTC Tornado and play on the media player. 

I probably have a program already installed on my PC that can do it.  But what numbers would you people reccomend?

Resolution, format, fps, bitrate e.t.c.

The HTC Tornado screen was built with widescreen in mind, it would be such a shame to miss out on its excellent video playback capabillities.

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Go to the pocket tv website www.pockettv.com and look in support for their basic guide to making smartphone optimized video. It's a little harder than it sound, and very time consuming. It takes me almost 3 hours to get a DVD to a format perfect for my phone, at 3 gigahertz cpu speed. Get a gig or more of mini SD for this. DVD's come out to about 300 megs when you make a good compromise between quality/size.

[Guest pd.ryder]

Go to the pocket tv website www.pockettv.com and look in support for their basic guide to making smartphone optimized video.  It's a little harder than it sound, and very time consuming.  It takes me almost 3 hours to get a DVD to a format perfect for my phone, at 3 gigahertz cpu speed.  Get a gig or more of mini SD for this.  DVD's come out to about 300 megs when you make a good compromise between quality/size.

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DVDShrink+PocketDivX will do that in less than half the time for a similar file size. Full DVD's tend to pop out at around 200-250Mb, or bigger if you retain higher settings.

[Guest Nicnatros]

DVDShrink+PocketDivX will do that in less than half the time for a similar file size. Full DVD's tend to pop out at around 200-250Mb, or bigger if you retain higher settings.

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I may have to try that, the other method takes too many steps and too much time. For the last couple weeks I've been wondering if there's a better way. I have DVD Shrink.

PocketTV on my smartphone was buggy and would crash in the middle of a video sometimes. I just got TCPMP recently, and it plays them much better... also many more options to play with. Audio quality seems to be a bit better also.

[Guest pankul]

Shame the program writers put so low quality limitors for smartphone on it, and with no contact email address or forums I cannot make a suggestion.

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Simply use the Pocket PC profile, its default size is 320 x 240

and max audio and video, and you will be fine.

the smart phone profile they have is for non qvga models.

[Guest james_h_winters]

yup, thats the way to do it. use the 320x240 pocketpc size. i watched the season finale of supernatural on my tornado. the filesize was around 100mb and i had audio all the way to the right (44khz, 16bit stereo) while i left the video at default (or at around the middle of the pocketpc default in pocketdivx encoder). i put on my headphones and play...

now if only smartphones can pop popcorn ;)

[Guest RSkillz]

Guess I better do a bit of self-promoting ;)

http://www.modaco.com/GUIDE-Nero-Recode-2-...es-t240408.html

Much better Quality compared to PocketDivXEncoder (just watch dark enviroments) and around the same filesize :P

[Guest pd.ryder]

...(just watch dark enviroments)...

Huh ? ;) Wodya mean?

[Guest hyedipin]

He means dark scenes, normally these scenes have less things moving therefore you have a lot of "ghosting" effect and also artifact blocks..

[Guest pd.ryder]

Ah-ha. Thanks ;)

[Guest RSkillz]

He means dark scenes, normally these scenes have less things moving therefore you have a lot of "ghosting" effect and also artifact blocks..

Exactly, I couldn't find the right words...Hey, I'm Dutch and all ;)

I saw alot of artifact blocks when I encoded an episode of CSI:NY with DivXPocketEncoder, so I started looking for a better solution. I mean, the HTC Tornado has an amazing display, might as well drop some jaws when showing off your encoded movies :P

Edited May 11, 2006 by RSkillz

[Guest Kaka]

I have used your method now several times RSkillz.

The results are fantastic. Great Guide. Thanks ;)

[Guest RSkillz]

I have used your method now several times RSkillz.

The results are fantastic. Great Guide. Thanks ;)

Thx! :P

If you might find any improvements, other settings, tweaks, whatever for the encoding,

please feel free to drop a comment.