I would like to convert some videos for travelling and to view them with the N900 default video player. Mplayer and VLC support the main profile and play those videos, but they are not optimized for mobile usage, and battery drains faster.
They are encoded in H264 Main 3.0 Profile, according to this wiki page the n900 only supports Baseline 3.0 encoded stuff.
I don't have much experience with reencoding/conversation, just used virtualdub in the past and installed avidemux.
Can anybody give me some tips what would be the fastest/best way to reencode a bunch of H.264 Main Videos to Baseline 3.0? Any suggestions on software for linux or windows? Is it possible to use a HD5850 for conversion?
There's even an optimized preset for the N900 for different video converters. I personally use Handbrake (download link also on the link I provided) and it works like a charm.
Knowing an effective command to re-encode video mdeia which is already in H264 format, so doesn't need converting, would be really handy. If specifying the codec is required to change profiles, what is the ffmpeg name on the N900 for the libav vcodec and acodec?
Oh, another reason the above might not work is that the -vpre preset seems to require the full file path. I read somewhere the order and combinations of presets can also make a difference. Dodn't know though.
