Thread: Best vid quality & compressor?
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vbrilon is offline vbrilon
2008-01-15 , 15:54
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Originally Posted by ghoonk View Post
True that, and I thank vbrilon and his team in Nokia for working hard on getting the app right.
Thanks. That was really one of our main design goals: create a video conversion app for people who don't care to fiddle with settings or a command line.

Their UI is nicer, but if I were to drag a bunch of videos for encoding, the third one in the queue will always choke and it would just say 'Processing' with no progress even after one night (hence a wasted night of encoding).
Er... really? Can you please file a bug against this if you can reproduce it consistently? This is definitely one of the use cases we tested

While N800VC appears to look less user-friendly at first glance, here's what I can do with it:

1. drag and drop a file into the interface and preview the output before i chuck it into the queue for encoding
Can you explain that please? I have not used the app so I am kind of clueless on this -- how do you preview before any encoding is done?

2. designate an output folder -- my N800 is usually connected to my desktop overnight and I designate my video folder as the output directory. The next morning, I just disconnect my N800 and get on the road, knowing fully well that the files are in there.
That's a pretty good idea actually to automatically copy when done if a certain folder is available. Would you mind filing that as an enhancement request as well while you're in Bugzilla?

3. A bunch of BMW Films in WMV format not only choked on the Nokia software, but came out all choppy and I ended up encoding the whole lot in the N800 Video Convert software, and that turned out perfect (if anyone wants them, just let me know - each converted video is around 30 to 40 MB in size)
Please, please, please file this as a bug and attach a small sample of the WMV video. We aim to convert any type of video properly, but with the huge number of variations in source material, it's hard to test with everything. I'd really like to fix this bug.

If anyone's willing to run a quick test, I would like to test the output file size using Nokia's Internet Tablet Video Converter vs the N800 Video Convert using a control file. This way, we can see if the Nokia software has a better encoding
The main difference will be the result of the different codecs we're using. Most of the Open Source projects are using mencoder as their back end, which for legal reasons Nokia cannot use. The Nokia Video Converter uses commercial codecs to do the encoding. It would be interesting to get a side by side comparison of the output quality.

BTW, as a reminder, the latest Video Converter release has a really nifty developer API access into it, so if it doesn't do something you want it to do, it's fairly trivial to write some code to get it to do so.
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