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Video on M600i
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Posted by: kbudgell

Just got the first season of 'Lost' and I would like to watch it on my M600i. I was wondering what the best resolution/bit rate would be. I'm looking to watch 1 or 2 episodes a day and I have about 1.5 GB left on my card because I don't want to take off tomtom.

Also wondering what the best video player is for the m600i. Any suggestions?

thanks in advance!

Posted by: whatever7

I use the PSP encoder Xilisoft PSP convertor. You have to use the lowest bitrate 216kbps or lower and 240X320.

Posted by: meow_mix

Encode it in 320x240@30fps, mpeg4 standard bitrate can be 100-500kbps, depends on the content of your video. More bitrate means more details, means larger files. Don't forget to deinterlace, very important to do.
Also it's important that you make the video size exactly as 320x240. SE's video player does not like to scale, and will throw an error. if your source if wide screen, use letterbox to encode to preserve aspect ratio and retain video size. Quicktime will do that nicely.

audio should be in AAC 128kbps stereo. constant bitrate for DVD's TV broadcasts and mono audio can have that turned down.

Use built in video player on the M600i.
there's no need to nickle and dime the birates. If you have a 1Gig chip, chances are you can fit at least four 24 mins shows and have pleny of room left.

Posted by: kbudgell

Thanks for the advice, I encoded the video at 240x320 with letterboxing, at a bitrate of 128kbps and audio at 64kbps. Looks beautiful on the M600i. Takes about 1-2 mins for a video to load up. The phone basically locks up while this time is passing. Any idea why?

Just for anyone else who's interested in this that encoding made a one hour episode (of lost) use up about 60MB. Not bad. I used a program called toast from roxio.

Posted by: meow_mix

Toast? What platform are you running? Mac OSX? What is your media source? video steams or a dvd?
If so you there are MANY excellent tools you can use. Each with their sets of bells and whistles.

Quicktime isn't really Mac only, but does letterbox aspect ratio , which are needed when you're dealing with wide screen. Essential tool for splicing and transcoding.

Handbreak is by far the fastest ,easiest and free. It'll also deinterlace your video. This is mainly to be used DVD.

ffmpegX, it's when you really want to tweak your video, or when your video source comes in goofy non-standard concotions. this is your swiss army knife of video transcoding when have a video source with something silly like h.264 video + wma audio in an avi container. Believe me, people do stupid things like that all the time.

Posted by: MichealOC

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Originally Posted by whatever7

I use the PSP encoder Xilisoft PSP convertor. You have to use the lowest bitrate 216kbps or lower and 240X320.

he's right

good luck