PS3Video9 - Video Conversion

[heero884]

Awesome thread you got BTC <3 If any admins is on I suggest we sticky this thread! Lots of people will be interested in this thread once they have received their N95. I'm quite excited to try this out when I get my N95 (if it ever comes )

BTC: What kind of computer are you using to encode these videos? I'm a bit tempted to upgrade my computer soon as I will be in a encoding frenzy next week XD It's too bad microSD is limited to 2GB though :cry:

[btc]

Encode tests were done on Athlon 64 3200, 1gb of ram running XP so not the worlds fastest machine.

I wouldn't worry about the 2GB card size, just use the 256 or 384kbps small and everything will look fine if you want to play it on the phone and then you can fit loads on. I've currently got 17 vids on mine (1-15 mins in length) and they only take up 479MB in total. 2 of the vids were encoded using the highest quality/size as well so I could output to TV :)

[elbows]

Originally Posted by xxxstarmanxxx

I could have sworn on early reviews of the phone that it was H264 MP4 AVC compliant - but my n95 wont play any avc stuff???? - maybe misguided early info.

It will play h264/avc but it needs to be baseline profile, not main profile. This is the same sort of thing as the ipod. Baseline has a few less features than main, I imagine this makes it less heavy to decode, and thus is more suited to smaller devices with more limited CPU & battery.

Im hoping that in theory the quicktime ipod & apple tv encoding settings will work with the N95, as that will make a lot of the video podcasts/videoblogs compatible with the N95. I'll test now.

[Salman]

^yup, they work...I just used the default setting on my Videora which I used on my ipod and it works flawlessly...

[waxer]

Does this encode into H264? If not, is there a way to do that with this program?

Edit: Nevermind I figured it out.

[Joscwy]

Allright so i did install these programs but i cannot find anything to get the movie off the dvd. I downloaded various decoders that all had various errors and i have yet to get anything onto my N95 : ( I am running vista and someone suggested that that might be my problem. Can ANyone help?

Please?

[xxxstarmanxxx]

Originally Posted by Joscwy

Allright so i did install these programs but i cannot find anything to get the movie off the dvd. I downloaded various decoders that all had various errors and i have yet to get anything onto my N95 : ( I am running vista and someone suggested that that might be my problem. Can ANyone help?

Please?

Google either of the following and install:

Smartripper

CladDVD

Both will rip dvd's to your hard drive

Hope that helps

J.

[Cropstar]

I've followed the guide using the customised settings file. Videos work fine but selecting the 4:3 options for the 768k files doesn't seem to work for me, it still outputs them in widescreen? Is it something to do with the Real player or an error with the encoder settings?

The original video is in widescreen, although I presume this doesn't matter as 4:3 should chop off the sides?

[pseudofinn]

Started a new thread with official Nokia conversion software-

http://www.n95users.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3838

[Joscwy]

Allright i went with smart ripper, but it did not quite do it as well as Chaddvd, i did get dvd shrink which made many isofiles oe copied them rather, and i tried using pspconverter program that was posted here but it makes a file that is 0kb and its nothing. Ig goes through and takes a long time doing something, but the resulting file is blank. I am about to give up. I just wanted to put one of my dvds on mt phone.

:cry:

It could be that i am just a moron, but i am not used to ripping dvds.