To be clear, what should the following settings be:

Video Resolution:
Video Bitrate:
Audio Bit Rate:

Optimize for Nokia 770 (crops video):
High Quality Conversion:
Enhance Color:
Audio Gain:

On the 770, weird as it may sound, I have had more problems with mplayer than the built in video player (latest 2006 OS). Here is my experience with DVDs.

DVD Ripping and Video Conversion software (on Mac): Handbrake (free)
Horizontal Resolution: 352
Video Bitrate: 448
Audio Bitrate: 128
Single Pass (though 2 pass worked as well)
FPS: 15

This is based somewhat on what I have seen in the forums and a lot of iterations in getting something to work.

For me, the video quality is perfectly acceptable. This probably could be optimized more, but I got tired doing it myself and settled once the result was satisfactory. Again, these videos would not run on mplayer but they do run on the built in video player.

Also, I should note that the video file size does not appear to change that much regardless of what settings are selected (e.g. FPS or video bitrate).

It must be some problem with video or audio codec. MPlayer works best with mpeg4 video + mp3 audio. Any other codecs (especially audio) are much less optimized, some of them may cause performance problems or even playback failure. If you use mpeg4 + mp3, you can have 400x240 resolution, 30 fps and quite high bitrate (up to 600 kbps should be fine).

Are these also the best settings for using Media Converter with Canola?

I am using the "770 Very High Quality" setting, however, I cannot make a video larger than 640 kbps that will play on the player (via Canola) - any ideas?

There's a limit to the amount of bandwidth the gstreamer codecs can support. The presets have been chosen to produce videos which are known to work. There's more info in the wiki.

HTH,

Andrew

PS. You don't need to ask it in quite so many places.

Thanks Andrew. Where can I see this "Wiki" with the best Canola Video settings?

JFGI?

http://maemo.org/community/wiki/videoencoding/

Canola uses the same gstreamer framework as the built-in "Media Player", so it won't play anything which that won't.

For that you'll need to use mplayer or UKMP (which is a front-end to mplayer).