Watching Videos on Palm Pre

[fr4nk1yn]

Setting the audio bitrate at 128 and the filesize at 250mb total is "odd". Yeah I'm late. 128 is decent quality audio, not great though.

For .mpv try setting the "quality" to about 70%.
I set my bitrate for DVDs to 768 and audio to 160.
If I'm encoding something else I examine the current codec and encode to the same bitrate, audion & video, or less. Never more.

[johnjx5]

So I converted 2 tv shows. One I converted to m4v and the other to mp4...

I used handbrake, 55 minute show, 250mb cap. The quality looks much better on the mp4 than the m4v. Has anyone else tried this/noticed this?

[fr4nk1yn]

If mp4 is using H.264 then yes.

[2pre4us]

ok i read through this whole thread and the one stickied as well. It does not seem to be a consensus on what will always work; unless i missed something. All my rips are mv4, a few mp4; all H.264 and as close to dvd resolution as possible (apple tv preset?)

I am using a xp & win7 machine with the latest Handbrake i tried a new encode, Body of Lies @ 480x208 @ 565 bitrate Mp4/H.264 and it worked fine. i transferred it in USB mode.

The issue is i do not know why it worked.

My Digital copy of Horton Hears a who will not work at all in iTunes mode even though it plays in iTunes.

I am confused. I really do not want to backup my dvd collection again in a different format/container. Its getting late at night and i have been at this for like 4 hours, sorry if it is not super organized.

[fr4nk1yn]

You need missed something as referenced in your other post.

ffmpeg is more "reliable" if your on Windows. The H264 only seems to work on Mac computers. I haven't tried Linux. I've never gotten H264 to work WITH Handbrake.

Digital Copys don't work because of the protection.

You have a lot of encoding to do. ):

[2pre4us]

Got it! i set it to iPhone/touch & H.264 & mv4 and was able to watch on the Pre just fine. I also tried FFmpeg via mp4/m4v as well, and it was noticeably more pixelated then H.264.

I have an old 1st gen c2d (1.8) and Win7 64 bit/2GB/x700 agp and the rip took about 1 hour. My XP pro P4 (2.4c) w/HT /2GB/9800Pro took almost 2x times as long.

hope that adds/helps! (-:

[fr4nk1yn]

I FINALLY got good results using HandBrake AND H.264 WITH iTunes compatibility.

I started with the iPod preset and changed the settings to match my MediaCoder settings, 768v/160a bitrates at 480x??? (keep aspect ratio), custom cropping with all 0s.
Not sure why this works where creating the preset from scratch doesn't.
Unfortunately one of my test videos had some mild stuttering. Some tweaking is in order.

[CantAffordIt]

So as far as video goes:

-convert to mp4 or m4v
-convert with http://handbrake.fr/
-conver to resolution 480x320
-Framerate I'm not to clear on what a decent spec is, maybe 25-30

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/09/downgrading.php

Any objections or additions?




I hope the email can do all of those things by the way

Never mind. I figured it out.