[Canola] Movie Encoding for Mplayer...
 

Since this is a video related question, and I did not know where to post this, I thought to give it a shot in the Canola forums since people are savvy enough for video.

I am trying to encode some movies so that they play via the mplayer w/o stutter.

I have tried the Media Converter 1.43, with no help. And recently I even tried Media Converter 2.03 which I believe is based on 1.43 but with x264 support. I have noticed, great stutter on portions of the movie where the bitrate is higher than usual.

Again I used profiles in both encoder that corresponds to a higher than avg quality, based on those application settings. I remember when I used to encode Planet Earth to watch on the Xbox 360 back before they introduce the avi/xvid codecs, I used to have similar problems, because I had to choose the correct VC1/WMV settings/profile so that the 360 could play it nicely, and it was mainly related to the bitrate on high traffic scenes where there are lot of movements going on.

Bottom line, I am running out of ideas for the tools to use based on the N800, and going to use my other tools (Total Video Converter, Super & PocketDivxEncoder), if anyone has done such tests and can give their 2c on this, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,
Houman

Edit: Looks like I have been a bit too optimistic about n800 ability to play high bitrate movies even with mplayer and this article helps...

http://nseries.groups.vox.com/librar...96f5a0003.html

Re: Moving Encoding for Mplayer...
 

* Run a search in this forum
* Use Nokia Media Converter
* Use http://xoomer.alice.it/sepaolo/n800vc/
* Use http://mediaconverter.garage.maemo.o...Converter.html
* Use 400x240 resolution

Re: Moving Encoding for Mplayer...
 

Thanks a lot.

Re: Moving Encoding for Mplayer...
 

So I have a question, why is there so many different releases of Media Converter by Urho recommended by different people ?

There is :
Version 1.2: http://mediaconverter.garage.maemo.o...Converter.html
Version 1.43: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mediaconverter/
Media Converter 2.03: http://www.audua.com/Media_Converter_2/index.html

Which one is the official version ? which one is the recommended version ?

Thanks
Houman

Re: Moving Encoding for Mplayer...
 

I believe Media Converter 2.03 is an enhanced version of 1.43 [better GUI too] (and 1.2 maybe an old one).

Re: Moving Encoding for Mplayer...
 

Yeah, makes sense what you say...

I am using this : http://xoomer.alice.it/sepaolo/n800vc/ Bundyo recommended, will see if it works out... I think it's most likely because of the resolution like he said. I thought the n800 could handle the max resolution video files, but it's unlikely at this point (which is okay).

-H

Re: Moving Encoding for Mplayer...
 

Some people had success with bigger files, but full resolution is impossible with the current hardware.

Re: Moving Encoding for Mplayer...
 

I converted all those files with the other tool you mentioned, and they all play very nicely.

Thanks again.

Re: Moving Encoding for Mplayer...
 

Best bets for media encoding are, IMHO:

Windows: Nokia Internet Tablet Video Converter
Linux/BSD et al: tablet-encode
Mac OS X: tablet-encode or Urho Kontorri's Media Converter

I'm biased, of course. YMMV.

Re: Moving Encoding for Mplayer...
 

I've personally found the best results are with tablet-encode, all other converters for mobile devices including Nokia Internet Tablet Video Converter haven't had quite as good results IMO.

-Rip