I have read more than a few posts around here about video conversion. I just got rid of my hacked iPhone and bought a new Nokia N95 8GB to replace it.
I usually rip all my shows off my Tivo and have been re encoding them in 640x480 at around 1500Kbps bitrate. That way I can play them on a TV or my old iIPhone and they both looks pretty good. Can the N95 handle that high a bitrate and that size of format too? I don't really want to have to reconvert all my stuff just for the phone. I know about the Tivo2Go function but when you pipe it out to a TV it looks really bad on a TV since they crunch down the format to fit on a portable device.
I have been usually doing Mpeg4 but though about switching to Divx too. The main reason I do all this is my Tivo does not have much space and I am on the road a bunch so I like to rip my shows off and keep them till I get back and play them on my TV at my leisure. I also have a slingbox too so that was another reason to get a N95 so I could have my slingplayer back on the phone.
Thanks for any advice you can give to a newbie about the N95.
I normally convert to divx (with Super) and play with the freely downloadable symbian divx player. You can keep high quality if you plan to copy it back off the phone or output it to TV from the phone but if not, you'll save space by encoding it smaller since the difference is not noticable on the small screen
Thanks for the info but for some reason Super is cranky on my Vista machine. I encoded the files in high 5.5 iPod version MP4 but it just plays the audio and does not show the file. :frown:
I may have to play with the settings a little more I think to get them right or maybe find another player for the N95.
donuteatinsob wrote:Thanks for the info but for some reason Super is cranky on my Vista machine. I encoded the files in high 5.5 iPod version MP4 but it just plays the audio and does not show the file. :frown: I may have to play with the settings a little more I think to get them right or maybe find another player for the N95.
I use it on Vista at home and XP at work and both are fine. Have you got the latest version?
donuteatinsob wrote:Thanks for the info but for some reason Super is cranky on my Vista machine. I encoded the files in high 5.5 iPod version MP4 but it just plays the audio and does not show the file. :frown:
I got a bit fed up with Super. It would muck up the format, squashing the aspect ratio, even if I tried to force it to leave Aspect ratio alone. Then I found it took too long. In the end I paid money for AnyDVD / Clone DVD mobile and that gives me superb results straight from the DVD and within far less time than Super could ever manage.
Yes Super is free but the bought software is far superior in performance.