zxon wrote:I've just done some films using the above settings but the playback audio/video freezes every few seconds for a moment, then continues. I tried with no apps running in the background as well. Has anyone else experienced this before?
Anyone?
might wanna try media coder - it's all free / open source and has some nice simple profiles for mobile devices.
So just to be clear, unlike some screens be it a monitor or TV - the n95's real player won't give you the option to stretch the horizontal black bars and there's no real way to encode a wide screen movie into full without major messing around?
I pretty much have the 'SUPER' thing down and it's certainly way better than the DivX player. And since I accidentally killed Spidey 3, is it safe to assume that they pre-loaded a full screen version as there were no black bars?
Yeah newbian questions, I know - this is the first time I've actually had a decent phone.
zxon wrote:I've just done some films using the above settings but the playback audio/video freezes every few seconds for a moment, then continues. I tried with no apps running in the background as well. Has anyone else experienced this before?
Im experiencing the exact same problem using these settings:
MP4
H.264/AVC
AAC
320:240
4:3
25 fps
384 kbps
44100
2 channels
Biterate 128 kbps
Seems to play for 4 seconds, freeze for a bit, play a bit more, freeze, play some more etc...extremely frustrating, I never thought putting videos onto a phone would be so tedious, especially compared to my psp, mp3 player etc.
Does anyone have any idea on how we can possibly solve this? Would be much appreciated! 😊
Well guys it seems your settings are correct. I know that if you want to preserve the aspect ratio for a 16:9 video your best best is choosing 320:176 with the aspect ratio of 16:9. I just converted The Dark Knight with it and it runs flawlessly. Note that the video it's self didn't have black bars and was 628:254.
The settings were:
Mp4
H.264/AVC (same thing as H.264)
AAC LC (same thing as AAC)
320:176 resolution
16:9 aspect ratio
384 video bitrate
44100 sampling frequency
2 Channels
128 kbps audio bitrate
This only works if the video has no black bars and is already in widescreen format.
It seems you have the regular settings correct for a full screen video
Mp4
H.264/AVC
AAC LC
320:240 resolution
4:3 aspect ration
384 video bitrate
44100 Sampling frequency
2 Channels
128 kbps audio bitrate
All stretch it does is if you choose a smaller video than the resolution you have. It will stretch it to fill the resolution you set it for.
Your problem, probably, is that you do not have you H.264 profile set correctly.
a couple of check boxes below where you will find the stretch it box there is a h.264 profile check box click it and look at those settings.
they should be
h.264 profile=Baseline(CABAC off)
H.264 levels=1.2
this could be throwing it off because h.264 is very picky with having all your settings correct.
If you guys are still checking these forums give those settings a try to see if that is the problem.
EDIT:BLACK BAR REMOVAL SOLUTION!!!!!
The way I found that was easy to remedy this is to set your video for the normal 320:240 settings listed above.
Then click the Crop/pad check box.
This will let you stretch the video to fullscreen. The default settings should work that crop 32 pixels off the top and 32 pixels off the bottom, making the video fullscreen. Make sure you check the Crop On box, then encode the video. I have tested it on my widescreen videos and they are fullscreen with this option. obviously depending on how big your black bars are you can tweek the pixel count, but this should remedy your widescreen to fullscreen problems.
That is the easiest way to do it all in this program.
Cheers!
Here is a pic of both videos side by side on my computer.
this site lists the best settings according to him
http://talkaboutnseries.com/2008/03/14/optimum-video-encoding-settings-for-n95-8gb/
does any one has the media information of the spiderman 3 movie which is found in the nokia n 95 8gb, thx
SpearsBoy wrote:does any one has the media information of the spiderman 3 movie which is found in the nokia n 95 8gb, thx
what do you mean?
Liam548 wrote:what do you mean?
i meant bitrate etc..
got it..bitrate is 814 kbps..
oh btw i tested sthing last nite
i had a mpg file converted from DAT with Super
file size around 30 mb
then i converted using the recommended settings from the link s1 just posted above..mp4 h264 etc. and it resulted into a 13 mb file .. it doesn't play smoothly on the phone but plays well in any player on pc.
then the same file of 30mb was converted using Nokia Video Manager and it resulted into a high quality mp4 of 24 mb which is of a very high quality for the phone..
ill recommend using nokia video manager as it will optimise the video convertion
and i will use Dr Divx or DVD Ripper to convert DVD to Divx
i have to say i converted a full film using the TV settings above and Super and the quality is superbb on my phone and on the tv.
Liam548 wrote:i have to say i converted a full film using the TV settings above and Super and the quality is superbb on my phone and on the tv.
cool . im happy for you. how much time it took?
thx 😊
which movie did you ripped? thx 😊
SpearsBoy wrote:cool . im happy for you. how much time it took?thx 😊
which movie did you ripped? thx 😊
one of my own dvds not a film. the whole process took around 2.5 hours thats ripping and burning..
zxon wrote:Why dya think I keep getting the error? It's of Spiderman 3, copied from a DVD of it that I bought from HMV. I used DVDShrink, and had AnyDVD running in the background to remove the copy protection.
DO we need to use both AnyDVD and DVDShrink together as I understand it DVDShrink removes protection anyway???
SpearsBoy wrote:cool . im happy for you. how much time it took?thx 😊
which movie did you ripped? thx 😊
And also it was full screen on my phone and not distorted.
my super (upto date version) no longer manages to encode FLV videos from you tube that I have downloaded. Ive used realplayer download manager to download them. If I use Vixy it seems to work.
Is everyone elses having the same problem?
it used to work...
‘I want it looking great on my device’
Ok! Here are the settings to use:
•Set the ‘Output Container’ to MP4
•Set the ‘Output Video Codec’ to H.264/AVC
•Set the ‘Output Audio Codec’ to AAC
•Set the ‘Video Scale Size’ to 320:240 and the aspect ratio to 4:3
•Set the ‘Frame/Sec’ to 25 and the bitrate to 384kbps
•Set the ‘Sampling Frequency’ to 44100, then click on 2 channels
•Set the ‘Bitrate’ to 128kbps
Finally, press ‘Encode (Active Job List Files) and wait for the program to finish. Once it has finished and you have located where the new file has been saved all that remains is to transfer to your phone and enjoy!
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‘I want it looking great on my device, and through TV-Out’
You’re not asking for much are you! Here are the settings to use:
•Set the ‘Output Container’ to MP4
•Set the ‘Output Video Codec’ to MPEG-4
•Set the ‘Output Audio Codec’ to AAC
•Set the ‘Video Scale Size’ to 640:480 and the aspect ratio to 4:3
•Set the ‘Frame/Sec’ to 25 and the bitrate to 432kbps
•Set the ‘Sampling Frequency’ to 44100, then click on 2 channels
•Set the ‘Bitrate’ to 128kbps
I recommend you tick the ‘Use DirectShow’ box on the top right again, and then drag the file you want to encode into the box at the bottom.
Press ‘Encode (Active Job List Files) and wait for the program to finish. Once it has finished and you have located where the new file has been saved, transfer it to your phone!
I hope this little guide has helped you out!
similar threads about Super so thought Id re bump this one...