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Re: N9 Video Player

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Originally Posted by wolke (Post 1283066)

since youre always transcoding videos exactly the same for a given device, i find it to be quite straightforward. i do it automatically with an ffmpeg script, and i find it to be not much slower than just copying the gigantic movie in the first place.

Would you please guide me how to to do it? I'm using windows 7 x64. Any free readymade software? Thanks.

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im sorry, no.

i have never used windows 7, nor windows 6. or 5.
or 4, 3, 2, 1...BOOOM!

i only use real operating systems, not flashy toys for rich playboys on their yachts. i say, good chap! if you have that much money to burn, you might want to use GNU/Linux (C). i know the price is steep, but the software is just so much more refined and tasteful.

Re: N9 Video Player

Could you share the ffmpeg script you use?

PS. I don't think we need any OS flamewars here.

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Please don't post anything illegal on this thread. Thanks.

Re: N9 Video Player

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Originally Posted by ayaztgi (Post 1283088)

Would you please guide me how to to do it? I'm using windows 7 x64. Any free readymade software? Thanks.

Have a look here. XMedia Recode can batch-encode multiple files too.

Re: N9 Video Player

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Originally Posted by wolke (Post 1283249)

Woah, somebody should get off their high horse...

Re: N9 Video Player

This thread appears to be a reprise of an earlier one. :)

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Originally Posted by marxian (Post 1282755)

For many people these days, their time is more valuable than that of the phone CPU/GPU. Not many want to spend time re-encoding their video collection (plus storing two copies of the same video) for use on their phone.

I do! I waste my valuable sleeping time by kicking off a batch of re-encodes before going to bed. :) And, by reducing the resolution of my videos, I also end up reducing the file size, which means I'm wasting far less space when I store them on my phone.

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Originally Posted by ayaztgi (Post 1283088)

Would you please guide me how to to do it? I'm using windows 7 x64. Any free readymade software? Thanks.

My favorite tool is the open-source program Handbrake. It works on most platforms (and will take full advantage of your 64 bit processor). It has lots of different presets available, but I usually just ignore them and manage the settings myself. I go for a minimalist H.264 encoding, which usually works fine; after selecting H.264 as my codec, I go to the "advanced" tab, set "Maximum B-Frames" to 0, and switch off "CABAC Entropy Coding", "8x8 Transform", and "Weighted P-Frames". After that, just choose the resolution you want, and set the thing off and running.

Re: N9 Video Player

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Originally Posted by wolke (Post 1282749)

[..]playing videos where the size in pixels of the images displayed exceeds the size in pixels of the screen is a waste of computation[..]

yeah this ^

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If you watch videos from the device.. you should encode them with a resolution that is the same with the resolution of your screen (if you want to achieve best viewing experience).

Anything higher than that won't make a difference.

of course if you plug the phone to a tv (hdtv) , well then you can put 720p/1080i (if supported by phone or/and tv) films in it.
unfortunately the N9 does not have an HDMI port

so, always try to watch 480 x 854 videos (or at least as close to this resolution as possible. more or less)

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Since it is a topic about encoding, I'll ask a question.
Is there a way to encode videos so that they appear in gallery and not videos? I have a lot of videos from my previous phones and would like to have them in the same place as my photos.
I would also like to compress my n9 videos because they take a lot of space without loosing them from gallery.

Re: N9 Video Player

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Originally Posted by HELLASISGREECE (Post 1283578)

of course if you plug the phone to a tv (hdtv) , well then you can put 720p/1080i (if supported by phone or/and tv) films in it.
unfortunately the N9 does not have an HDMI port

BTW, a lot of HDTVs now have the ability to play videos themselves, and have USB ports to connect to an external storage device (such as an N900 or N9). :) No HDMI port needed!