Increasing the Volume
 

The N810 (and probably the N800 with OS2008) has this not-enough-volume issue talked about elsewhere. Here's what I've done:

edit the file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf on your nokia
add these two lines

this increases your max gain by 14x (which isn't as much as you might think). You can try a larger number if you want.

Mark

Re: N810 Video Converter
 

I just wanted to say thanks for this program. It works great on my xp machine and the vids play great on my 810.

Re: N810 Video Converter
 

Hi,

No problem. I was happy to get it working well.

I just flew to the UK and on my N810 I had 18 ebooks, 8 movies, and 50 cd's. What could be cooler than that? (Maybe a battery that lasts nine hours?)

Mark

Re: N810 Video Converter
 

I need some help. What are the settings to use if you have a 16/9 video and you want to convert it but for it to be full screen with no bars?

Ive tried the crop video to 15/9 as well as played around with the file aspect ratio but no go.

Is there anything im missing?

Re: N810 Video Converter
 

This might be a dumb newbie question:

When i run media converter v2.05 the "Convert DVD track:" is greyed out. I am trying to convert DVD files from my DVD player. Is there another way to do this?

Thanks

Re: N810 Video Converter
 

any help would be great!

Re: N810 Video Converter
 

I don't know about media converter but if you're on Windows you can start with DVD Shrink and then you use a converter to make the files compatible with the NIT. There are alternatives to DVD Shrink for other platforms.

Use my first Newbie link to learn about DVD Shrink.

Re: N810 Video Converter
 

Hi, Just set to to 16/9 and tell it to crop to 15/9. This should do exactly what you're looking for. If the video is really 16/9 (not anamorphic) you don't have to set the aspect ratio manually.

If the video is 4/3 then don't crop it to 15/9, just add a 4/3 size to resolutions.txt and convert to that.

Mark

Re: N810 Video Converter
 

Thanks ill try that. The bars where not so bad but for one movie it actually made the picture smaller so 3/4 of the screen was black lol

Re: N810 Video Converter
 

For Windows users (or Linux users with VirtualBox and an XP CD!)...

Try using SUPER

I spent about 12 hours tuning the settings, the best ones I found are:
Output Container: AVI
Video Codec: DivX (Version 5.0 at the second screen)
Audio: mp3
ffmpeg or MEncoder both work, try either and see which is fastest/best

IMPORTANT:
video width: 400
video height: 240
bitrate: above 700kbps, I find 750-850 is fine, going up to 1008kbps didn't noticeably increase quality, but slightly increased file size

Hi quality mode on

Audio
44100 (44Khz)
2 channels
128kbps

GO! Encoding the file on a 2GHz Pentium-M Centrino took was about real-time (2hours / DVD). On faster machines it will be significantly reduced.

The playback quality is superb using mplayer, no audio-sync problems, audio quality is also excellent. I listen to the N810 using Sennheiser HD280 Pro headphones, and the sound quality of the DivX file on the N810 is as good as the original from my Sony laptop... go figure!

Hope this helps.. SUPER is pretty good in that I've dragged all sorts of input files, DVDs VCDs xVid 3GP and Youtube flash videos, it re-encodes the lot! For Linux only users, if you can get some sort of DivX encoding working, those resolution settings seem to be the key to low CPU usage and high framerates.