[maemo-users] Video encoding

2006-02-16 Thread Serge Semashko
Hello all, What are the best settings for encoding video to view on Nokia 770 considering performance and quality limitations? On http://maemo.org/maemowiki/VideoEncoding suggested resolutions are 240x144, 352x208 and the others. Also there is information that the device supports hardware pixels

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding

2006-02-16 Thread Ed Okerson
My preferred resolution for 4:3 content is 320x240 at 25fps 300Kbps. For general TV viewing it is very watchable. For 16:9 content I use 320x176 25fps 300kbps. For both I generally encode the audio as MP3 at 32kbps. All scaling of video is done by the DSP, and then pixel doubled by the display

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding

2006-02-16 Thread Adilson Oliveira
Serge Semashko escreveu: > Hello all, > > What are the best settings for encoding video to view on Nokia 770 > considering performance and quality limitations? > Hi. I don't know if it's best or not but I've made some tests here and the resolition that worked best for me in 4:3 movies is 320:19

[maemo-users] Video encoding script

2006-03-31 Thread Ville Ranki
Hello Here's a simple video encoding script to encode videos easily to 770 format. Maybe it'll be useful for someone: -- -- Ville Ranki oh3gbq [EMAIL PROTECTED] 040-757 2533 http://www.iki.fi/~cos/ ___

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding script

2006-04-13 Thread Brad Midgley
Ville > Here's a simple video encoding script to encode videos easily to > 770 format. Maybe it'll be useful for someone: > fwiw, I tried a couple of these with video that had no audio sync problems and it always played on the 770 with sync probl

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding script

2006-04-13 Thread Hilary Miller
I've used mencoder in the following waymencoder %anymovie% -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=64 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=1:vbitrate=300 -vf scale=240:144 -ffourcc DIVX -ofps 25000/1001 -o %anymovie_now_nokia770_sized%.avibut whenever the resulting video file is large, like 100megs, the noki

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding script

2006-04-13 Thread inode0
On 4/13/06, Hilary Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but whenever the resulting video file is large, like 100megs, the nokia > refuses to play it with a generic video playback error. Does anyone watch > large video files on their nokia? Am I the only one having this problem? I have an episode of

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding script

2006-04-13 Thread Adilson Oliveira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hilary Miller escreveu: > I've used mencoder in the following way > > mencoder %anymovie% -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=64 -ovc lavc -lavcopts > vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=1:vbitrate=300 -vf scale=240:144 -ffourcc DIVX -ofps > 25000/1001 -o %anymovie_now_nokia7

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding script

2006-04-13 Thread Michael P. Lococo
>> Here's a simple video encoding script to encode videos easily to >> 770 format. Maybe it'll be useful for someone: >> > > fwiw, I tried a couple of these with video that had no audio sync > problems and it always played on the 770 with sync probl

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding script

2006-04-14 Thread inode0
On 4/13/06, inode0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/13/06, Hilary Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > but whenever the resulting video file is large, like 100megs, the nokia > > refuses to play it with a generic video playback error. Does anyone watch > > large video files on their nokia? Am I t

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding script

2006-04-14 Thread Hilary Miller
I've tracked back my problem. Ubuntu is vague on whether or not a usb transfer has finished or not. I was copying the files to the disk, waiting for the progress dialog to finish, then unmounting the nokia using the gui. The disk icon would then disappear and I would unplug the device. However, the

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding script

2006-04-15 Thread Ville Ranki
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 14:41 -0400, Hilary Miller wrote: > > I've tracked back my problem. Ubuntu is vague on whether or not a usb > transfer has finished or not. I've also noticed this problem. With unclean unmount the MMC may get corrupted and becomes read-only and there may be lost free space.

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding script

2006-04-15 Thread Hilary Miller
On 4/15/06, Ville Ranki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've also noticed this problem. With unclean unmount the MMC may getcorrupted and becomes read-only and there may be lost free space. Iusually run 'sync' command after unmounting 770 in Ubuntu. If the MMCgets corrupted it has to be reformatted to g

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding script

2006-04-15 Thread David D. Hagood
Hilary Miller wrote: Thats exactly what happened to me. I didn't mention it, but my mmc card went mysteriously read-only and I had to reformat it sometime during my playback troubleshooting. It seems to me that the system needs to be notified if the file system fails consistency check (e.g. t

[maemo-users] Video encoding and codecs

2006-07-27 Thread Christophe Nowicki
Hi, I'd like to encode my movies with dvdrip and watch them on my Nokia 770. And I'd like to known what is the best codecs and encoding params to get small files and good picture quality? Best Regards, -- Nowicki Christophe http://csquad.org ___ mae

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding and codecs

2006-07-27 Thread Arndt Heuvel
Am Donnerstag, 27. Juli 2006 10:44 schrieb Christophe Nowicki: > Hi, > > I'd like to encode my movies with dvdrip and watch them on my Nokia 770. > > And I'd like to known what is the best codecs and encoding params > to get small files and good picture quality? I see this here on the list, but I

Re: [maemo-users] Video encoding and codecs

2006-07-29 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:45:35PM +0200, Arndt Heuvel wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 27. Juli 2006 10:44 schrieb Christophe Nowicki: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to encode my movies with dvdrip and watch them on my Nokia 770. > > > > And I'd like to known what is the best codecs and encoding params > > to ge