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	Copernicus	2012-10-21 , 20:13
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This thread appears to be a reprise of an earlier one.

Originally Posted by marxian

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.

Originally Posted by ayaztgi

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.

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