DVD to Pocket PC: Third Edition

[Chris Edwards]

I'm going to start working on a new edition of the DVD to Pocket PC Howto, any suggestions for improvements?<br><br>Here is what I'm thinking of adding:<br><br>- DivX instructions<br>- WMV full screen instructions<br>- SmartRipper instead of CladDVD

[Village_Ideot]

Erm...tell how to split it up into 2 files so it can be higher quality if you haven't enough memory

[RwGast]

WOW you can get WMV ins FULL SCREEN?!!! What bitrate, what res? Every time i try this it seams to cash at various bitrates.

[Chris Edwards]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the newest WMP supports full screen... you'd need a reasonable bitrate for it to be smooth though.. probably 180kbps video and 64kbps audio...  320x240

[Matt Keys]

ideot, you are going at this wrong, to get better fps, leave it at 30, and lower the bitrate and/or screen size.

[Village_Ideot]

Yeah 30 fps doesn't work, you need 15 fps for good full screen...well i think but anywaaaay.<br><br>I have a question.  I encoded a music video at 30 fps, 320 x 240, 250 kp/s...It chopped up on my ipaq, so i encoded it to 15 fps, and the file it gave me was BIGGER than the other by .20 mebagytes.  Hey I was impressed though, becaue it was only 6.57 megabytes on Windows Media, compared to the 40 megabyte MPEG<br><br>Anyone have an idea why the 15 fps was bigger than the 30 fps?  I know the bitrate on the 15 fps was slightly larger, but that shouldn't affect it much with half the frames right?<br>

[Village_Ideot]

okaaay matt keys...but whats wrong with 15 fps, and I guess for that matter...what does the fps really mean?

[RwGast]

My wmv's always lag and i try to encode about 200k in that 176xBlank (QCIF) at 22fps. Why? this is pretty shitee quality with a good bitrate i shouldnt get any lag should i?

[RwGast]

o btw ideot, frames per second

[Village_Ideot]

Well I know that.  Why wouldn't lowering the fps by half make the file half the size or improve the quality or something?

[Matt Keys]

perhaps the file you were encoding wasnt 30fps to begin with?

[Chris Edwards]

and what 15fps does is still 30fps.. it just makes 2 frames the same at a time. So, you'd get some overhead. 23.976 would probably end up being a smaller size than a 15 fps one. Try it out. Make sure you sync the audio... Oh, and as matt pointed out, the original video may have only been less than 30.

[Village_Ideot]

Gracias Senor Chris y Matt

[snatch]

Do you know Vidomi? Sure you know it. Du you think it might be possible to do the encoding with it?

[Chaos_ed]

I have found a program that is quite useful. It basicly takes the VOB's off the dvd and converts them to AVI's straight away. Its a bit like the mp3 rippers that go from CD straight to MP3.<br><br>Its called dvd2avi_gui.exe<br><br>You need the following to make it work though:<br>mpeg2avi+<br>ac3dec version 0.8.17<br>VirtualDub 1.3c or higher<br>ac3 codec-filters to listen to the avi/ac3 file.<br><br>I have not tried it yet. A mate e-mailed it to me but it seems pretty sweet!!<br><br>