Re: Best free video converter for Windows?
 

720x480 is the physical resolution of the DVD files, so from converting it to square pixels you wouldn't gain quality but probably some performance on your N810.

Youtube always has square pixels, they know why... :)
I've tried clipconverter, comes in quite comfy but the result looked really bad, max. bitrate was around 768 kbps or so, not enough for 480p (480x854, like N9).
I'd stick to downloadhelper and XMedia Recode.
And for 16:9 content I'd always choose 800x450 for N810 or any screen with that horizontal res.

But still, these vids have million color space which the N810 can't show, that's lost bandwith. Esp. for cartoons I'd expect very good results from setting that to 16 Bit (65k colors) instead of 24 Bit.
That should give some space for better audio, smaller GOPs and 25p at least. :cool:
Please try, I wanna know now... :)

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My tablet could never handle this.

To even get 720x480 on a cartoon, I have to go with mono audio, 22050 mghz, and 15 fps with a bit rate around 900.

Since I do prefer the best possible screen display, when using Knots 2, I also lower the audio like I just mentioned above but need to drop all the way down to 8 fps.

These settings sound pretty gutter, but it's as far as the tablet can be pushed.

800x450 though? Wow. I'll give it a try but I wouldn't expect anything higher than around 5 fps for it to keep up with this.

Do you know how I can change the color display on my N800 to 16 bit?

I never heard of doing that before.

Anyway, I'm really happy so far with 360 HD.

The difference between how I used to watch YouTube videos and now, honestly, it's like 4 times better. :)

Re: Best free video converter for Windows?
 

Yeah, you might be right, probably it's easier for this hardware to upscale 360p than to diplay 450p, for 24bit.

You can't change it, it's screen limitation...
But you can set transcoding settings with proper SW to match 65k colors.

Re: Best free video converter for Windows?
 

I tried your suggestions and ended up with videos that played back at around 1 frame every 5 seconds.

Strange as it might seem, it wasn't very enjoyable to watch. :)

Re: Best free video converter for Windows?
 

From the other thread:
Why you set lower fps with 22kHz?
Cartoons are much better to compress than normal videos...

Did you set color range to 16bit (65k colors)?

Re: Best free video converter for Windows?
 

I had to compromise and cut the sound down in half for the extra frames per second that I got from this.

I thought it was worth it just as long as your playing the cartoon at full volume.

No. I just used that converting website.

What Windows program allows you to change the color range?

I've so used many of them but have never seen that option before.

Cheers. :)

Re: Best free video converter for Windows?
 

Didn't come across this before, so I can't tell right now.
But setting color-depth to 16 bit would really do the magic for High color gaphics displays.

I use XMedia Recode, it allows to set nearly anything you can imagine, english language is available too.
I did some fiddling with the settings of different codecs to match your requirements, but wasn't able to set 16 bit colors manually.
My Best bet would be the different 3gp-presets from Nokia-profiles and edit them. Too bad, the N810 is not there...
I did a quick search, but couldn't find which 3gp standards are limited to 16 bit. If you find something on that, you got it, I'd say.

Also, you can choose e.g. XVID, H264 or H263 codecs in a .mp4 or .avi container. And there are options to check "cartoon" or "tune" them for animation. So give it a try and also check out different profiles (basic, main) and levels (1.2, 2, 2.2, 3...)

And I correct myself, I think you should not exceed 640x360 resolution. Though N810 has no usable GPU (due to lack of drivers as I've read in the germen wikipedia, WTF?) it's easier to upscale than to playback higher res.

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Okay.

Thanks Win. :)

Re: Best free video converter for Windows?
 

I just use Youtube Downloader to convert my videos...

Re: Best free video converter for Windows?
 

Is it possible to run that Clip Converter website using a command line script?

I tried Links2 but it didn't work.

Just hoping there's a faster way to convert videos since that web page is slow to load on my tablet.