unrequited Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Anybody have a good all in one utility, or maybe a step-by-step process for taking videos of various resolutions and aspect ratios and formatting them for the 640x480 screen? Also, what's the best way to get rid of the vertical "smush" aspect ratio problem when viewing videos in "Full" mode? Purposely recode movies so that they're horizontally smushed so they normalize when stretched from 640x480 to 800x480? I've begun experimenting with virtualdub but want to get a better handle on things. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hoonu Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Anybody have a good all in one utility, or maybe a step-by-step process for taking videos of various resolutions and aspect ratios and formatting them for the 640x480 screen? Also, what's the best way to get rid of the vertical "smush" aspect ratio problem when viewing videos in "Full" mode? Purposely recode movies so that they're horizontally smushed so they normalize when stretched from 640x480 to 800x480? I've begun experimenting with virtualdub but want to get a better handle on things. If you had a Mac... I would say ffmpegx. That app rocks. See if you can find anything else like it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TODJA77 Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 perhaps handbrake? thats what I use for converting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GTI Chooch Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 I don't even know what formats of Video work best on the F's since I don't have one yet. If you read this article though, you'll find a bunch of good choices for decoding and converting videos. http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-free-video-rippers-encoders-and-converters-316478.php Hope it helps. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hoonu Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 If you have your video in DiVX format... I would stick to that since it could take a while recode. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HiFiSi Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Yeah, you can just throw some divx files on a DVD and play those. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
unrequited Posted June 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 I guess I'd just go with the divx standard because I have a pro version of divx to encode... I'm still wondering what the best resolution is (800x480)? I know it says 10Mbps for the transfer rate, but I'm wondering what a good bitrate is for quality without dropping frames. Good suggestions so far though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
916Kev Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Some of the Divx files I have play choppy. They won't be in sync. It'll play fine on my powerbook or ps3 but not on my F90BT. The audio is fine but the vid lags a bit. They're all divx files and I'll play em off my SD card. Some will play fine, others no audio, others choppy. Weird. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
unrequited Posted June 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2008 I've found a good sweetspot. Using standard Home Theater profile and then tweaking it using Dr. Divx, you too can play full resolution (720x576) files at full speed with zero stuttering. Here are the settings I'm using: 1500kbps (1-pass) Extreme Quality (keep aspect ratio) 720x480 forced resolution Lanczos4 resize H.263 Optimized quantization Progressive output for sound i'm using lameenc acm mp3 192kbps stereo 48kHz CBR Full length movies play with zero slowdown, and music videos play just as smooth as well. I've set up a virtualdub job settings filter if you use that (you'll need virtualdub-mpeg2) and just use the f4 job control "process directory" to suck in a whole directory of vids. Then I just rename them to .divx (for organization) and throw 'em on a dvd. Butter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Troskey Posted July 1, 2008 Report Share Posted July 1, 2008 thanks...posting here for future reference! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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