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Full Screen DIVX files playing on the N80 - Guide for Mac Users

4 replies · 6,204 views · Started 28 June 2006

If you have Mac OS X & N80 and would like to play your *legally* downloaded DIVX files fullscreen on it - this is how I got mine to work- as most of the convertors I've seen have been Windows only.

I took a 25min American Sitcom 175MB and converted it to a ----> 60.9MB file playable full screen with sound and no drop out through realplayer on my N80. Using:

[COLOR="Red"]N80 on 3 (FW V.3.0618.0.2 23-05-2006)
Mac mini (OS X10.4.6) with Quicktime Pro 7.1.1
(not sure if you need pro or not??)
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Open your Divx or similar file in Quicktime
Goto File and pick Export (Applekey E)
(In the export option drop down) Pick Movie to Mpeg-4 *click options*

Under Video: I used these settings:

File Format MP4 (not MP4 ISMA) Video H.264
Data Rate 336 worked fine (I've been told you can go upto 384) kbits/sec
Image Size 320x240 QVGA Frame Rate 15
Key Frame Every 24 Frames
Click Video Options (click baseline) and single pass.

Audio: AAC LC (music) Data Rate 64 Channels: Stereo
Output Sample Rate: 44.100kHz Encoding Quality: Good

*didn�t touch the streaming tab*
Pick OK
and then just pick to save it to your desktop

Tried and tested- and works fine. Will get back to the forum on the battery consumption question!

Also - I set it up to recode overnight whilst I slept - so I�m not 100% of how long it took to recode the file to the new settings.

I'm not saying this is the best way to do this on a mac, nor do I know if these are the optimal settings BUT what I do know now is that this is *one way* you can do it AND IT WORKS! and anyone with a mac and an N80 should be able to do it!

If anyone can refine the process or give mac movie conversion tips - please chip in! Hope this helps some of you.

You can also use Handbrake for Mac:

http://handbrake.m0k.org/

It is donation-ware and excellent. Just set:

Audio bitrate to 64
Picture settings/size to 320x240 (or keep aspect ration if you want widescreem to show in widescreen)
Average bitrate to 350
Framerate 15

Works great.

Simon

When will people ever get the message!??!

YOU CAN PLAY 416x352 DIVX VIDEOS ON N80

Why bother playing 320x240 res videos on the n80... when theyre going to get stretched and distorted to achieve fullscreen?!

I have done plently of encoding in 320x240 and the video quality is good, but nothing like the quality when playing FULL SCREEN Divx movies.

Ive converted cartoons with large areas of colour, and 90% of the time they would normally look terrible... blotchy areas of colour and distorted lines... but when using SmartMovie... they look DVD Quality. Totally faultless...

No I dont work for them, nor am i getting commission... but I have purchased Smartmovie myself and and absolutley love it!

Another big advantage is conversion time. Converting using they software converts to a .avi file... MUCH MUCH faster than all of the .3gp convertors i have used.

Episode of an unnamed yellow charactered cartoon takes only a few minutes.

check it out:
http://www.lonelycatgames.com/index.php?chapter=smartmovie