I am home from work and did a full DVD --> N900 conversion.
Ripped movie Predator with DVDFab 6 to main movie only directly into its AC3 & VOB format.
I encoded it with MeGUI with the Iphone preset and also cropped off the top/bottom black areas.
Just so happens the iphone preset is exactly what I was going to manually set, its baseline 3.0 x264 settings with a 1000kb/s bitrate 2 pass method.
I used NeroAAC for audio 96kb/s LC encoding.
I muxed together with MP4box into a MP4 Container.
Put it on the N900 and the file looks fantastic and played perfect on Gstreamer, however It still has minor lag and slowdown in MPlayer. This confirms my earlier test that the ~700kb/s music video I had slowing down was not a low enough bit rate for MPlayer to keep in sync.
These are the settings I am going to stick with, its really high quality and kept the movie under 1GB, as my collection grows I may lower the bitrate more for the sake of file size as H264 scales down very very well I could probably cut the bitrate down to 500kb/s with minimal loss of quality esp on that small screen.
so the question now is what movie comes next?? Im thinking monty python quest for the holy grail
Also almost never will I have time or ability to watch a full movie so I am thinking stuff like family guy episodes, short and funny.
heck I dont think the N900 battery will last 2 hours watching a movie unless its full because my phone almost just died on me and I charged it last night.
i wouldn't go down with the bitrate too much.
800 kbps at least. i'll go with 1000 kbps.
(but you can try 500 kbps and post here if it still looks fine)
one thing would be to lower the fps from 23 to 20.
so the file size would be smaller too.
just wonder what exactly is the n900 default media player.
have some files not detected by the media centre and also not detected by file explorer. So i am thinking of lauching the default player using command from xterm/
these files are all there when navigating using xterm/
In short how to launch the default player using command line.
