Maximum and optimum bitrate for audio and video on MPx ??

[Guest Lorquis]

Hi, First post here so here we go!

As title, what is the maximum and the optimum bitrates for audio and video on the MPx200...

Asking as mp3s at about 5mb each would fill it quite quickly and I'm pretty sure the phone can't be dealing with 92kbps without resampling it itself and thus lagging.

Hope you helpful people can aid me!

Ta tar!

[Guest danhs]

i've had no noticable problems playing back mp3's encoded at 160kbs, seems fine if you have the space on the sd card. I'd assume lower bit rates might allow media player to run better in the background but its probably not worth the re-ripping time.

Also as the headphones aren't the best in the world you probably want either the best quality sound to start from or alternatively equal (lower) quality sound as you probably wont hear the difference depending on your view point.

Haven't had a chance to try video yet but I reckon you want the lowest bit rate you can get with around 15fps and 176x220 resolution

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Try converting your mpg3 to wma format as it's smaller with no

noticable drop in quality.

[Guest jambo]

I use 25kb/s and can hardly hear the compression. This gets an ALBUM down to about 20mb.

I use a 2-pass VBR (Variable Bit Rate) WMA Codec.

I suggest downloading DB Power Amp and it's WMA plug-in (Click on codec-central on the main page)

for encoding.

[Guest actionj]

I have a 256MB SD Card and play 192kbs MP3s just fine. The only time it chunks a little is when i have "shuffle" selected in Windows Media Player and a new song starts, the first 3 or 4 seconds chunk.

For video, anything encoded over 100k will probably chunk bad. Pocket TV is good software and they have templates for TMPGEnc to encode video with all the right settings for you.

For ring tones I use Cooledit to convert 15-25 second mp3 clips to PCM wav files @ 11,025HZ -8bit - mono. The files end up being like 200k and still sound great as ring tones.