Using a Mac (OSX), has anyone gotten a DVD onto the Nokia using Handbrake ONLY (without a converter) ? If so, what settings did you use ?

Cheers !

I've only done it in a 2 step process.
First converting it into MP4 AAC in handbrake.
Then converting that movie with the media converter into a AVI format that the Nokia 770 could handle.

It takes time, but I could not get handbrake to make a file that played directly on the 770.

I was asking this too in this thread:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ight=handbrake

No answer since 12-18-2005 probably means nothing good.
But maybe there is an other version out by now:-)

avi is MP4, but you'll need it have the DIVX fourcc. ffmpeg defaults seem to work well, or at least mplayers default lavcopts for vcodec=mpeg4, so long as your resolution and bit rate are low enough for the n770 to decode it.

i don't have a mac so I cant test with your tool, but this mplayer command will work:
dvd://1 is for the first track, dvd://5 would do the 5th track. there are also mplayer options to choose specific chapters and timestamps, see the mplayer docs. use scale=240:144 for widescreen and you might have to play with the bitrate. you can try a bit lower bitrate and change -ofps to 23.976 or 29.970 if it seems jumpy. keep in mind that is your fps and bitrate are too high, the 700's player will drop frames anyway and make it jumpy in a much less desirable way than 15 fps will.

and before someone jumps up and down about copying movies, this will not work on a commercial dvd without some extra effort, which i will not go into here. this command is for encoding your unecrypted dvd's for playback on the 770.

Thanks ! I will try it.

I've been able to modify the HandBrake 0.7.x (OSX) source code so that it encodes mpeg4 AVI with DIVX instead of the default DX50 (DIVX5).

See http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...st.php?p=11200

It's a simple modification, but you'll need at least xcode and something called 'jam' to build your own HandBrake from source.

You can find handbrake source code at http://handbrake.m0k.org/download.php and jam at ausmac mirrors.

Cheers!

- Ian

or you could just run "mencoder -aoc copy -ovc copy -ffourcc DIVX -o new.avi orig.avi" to change it afterwards without having to reencode

Sounds great, but I get an error: aoc is not an MEncoder option.
Using MEncoder 1.0pre7-3.4.2

Should be "-oac"

Thanks guys, it really works with this little "AVI FourCC Code Changer" tool.

(http://www.inmatrix.com)