I do use my car to go to work but I have to travel through 20 km, all country. I would for sure use metro or train if I lived in a big city, since, it is not only regarding the gas, but the pollution also.

And, I mean, what would you to spare, time wise, using a car? (I'm still talking of big cities with lots of traffic)

A simple tool to convert files, DVDs or complete directory: iriverter 0.16
I've made a N800/N770 profile that you can download from here (right click, save as, and store in the "profile" directory)

Produced content is 400x240, original frame rate, video is MPEG-4 up to 768kbps and audio is MP3 up to 192 kbps. Bitrates are tunable. Aspect ratio of original video is keeped adding black borders when needed.

Only drawback of the tool is that it does not support insertion of external subtitles (srt), and runs only on Win32 platforms.

Anyone using command lines, any reason you're not using 770-encode (soon to be renamed tablet-encode)?

Suggestions for new features/requirements are always appreciated. I've got patches submitted for supporting multiple files to be converted at the same time and a few other optimisations, too.

because i'm comfortable using command lines, why would i use another tool other than the raw mencoder/ffmpeg, especially one that relies on another product (perl)?
Additionally I have multiple devices so need multiple video profiles.
It's better to understand what and how you're encoding than to rely on some other process.

OK, I wasn't suggesting you should - or must - use it; just keen to improve it where necessary.

Personally, I can't be arsed remembering an ffmpeg/mencoder command line every time I want to copy a video across; but I recognise that's not the only valid approach.

OT: I don't think referring to Perl as "another product" is particularly fair when practically every single Linux distribution, Mac OS X and BSD ship with it as a core part of the distro.

I actually wanted not to reencode audio that was already mp3, since doing so only reduced the quality. I also added a 'bestest' under 77-encode.pl that encodes a higher quality audio so that i don't suffer audio quality. If you incororate those features back into 770-encode.pl, I'd use it!

Hey.. and I'm all grown up now, this post pushed me over the Junior Member status! Now I have to act all responsible

Yep, sounds like good feature: if the audio is already MP3 and the bitrate is equal to or lower than the preset's audio bitrate, just copy.

Plus, an option for overriding that threshold for just copying the audio straight.

I'll add it to the wishlist.

I found on garage a ruby program to do the transcoding. I'm not a ruby programmer but I can understand the program. It has an interesting method to decide the parameters for mencoder, you could take a look if you're interested. It's called transcode.rb, though I don't remember the project name.

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