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2007-07-01 , 03:39
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I haven't seen mention of this software, here. It's an excellent video conversion tool, that outputs files that play perfectly with Mplayer. I havent converted too many videos for the N800 (I'm a PalmTx convert), but those that I have done have looked excellent (to me) at a bitrate setting of 300.

Select one of the higher end Archos devices when configuring so that you can get the high resolution. By default I think you're set to 320x240 Palm resolution - you'll want to change that.

Windows XP. Free.

http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/

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2007-07-01 , 15:04
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Originally Posted by Scrabbler View Post
I haven't seen mention of this software, here. It's an excellent video conversion tool, that outputs files that play perfectly with Mplayer. I havent converted too many videos for the N800 (I'm a PalmTx convert), but those that I have done have looked excellent (to me) at a bitrate setting of 300.

Select one of the higher end Archos devices when configuring so that you can get the high resolution. By default I think you're set to 320x240 Palm resolution - you'll want to change that.

Windows XP. Free.

http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/

S.
Not all conversions appear to play smoothly, even with mplayer. And N800Converter gives me more control over the output.
 
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2007-07-02 , 00:10
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Are you sure you tried the same software? I see at least twice as many output options in PocketDivXEncoder, including audio. Click on the Advanced Tab. Maybe I missed some secret options page in the N800Converter? Can you point me to video sources that did not play back smoothly with Mplayer?
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2007-07-02 , 13:13
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Originally Posted by Scrabbler View Post
Are you sure you tried the same software? I see at least twice as many output options in PocketDivXEncoder, including audio. Click on the Advanced Tab. Maybe I missed some secret options page in the N800Converter? Can you point me to video sources that did not play back smoothly with Mplayer?
Thanks.
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I should have been more clear: I've been through quite a lot of video converters, until I finally realized that, for my N800 at least, I only need to control a couple of things: the size of the output file, the audio quality and the cropping (which usually means in my case: How to turn it off). N800Converter gives me all those with no hassle.

PocketDivXencoder is nice, but the Nokia is not one of its pre-set choices which, given the finnickiness of the N800 about video formats, was probably the reason why I got really unwatcheable results in some cases. It's great for my Archos PMA430 though...

Also, N800Converter is incredibly fast, even in dual pass-mode.
 
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2007-07-02 , 13:35
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I'll agree with you on at least one point....N800Converter is really fast!!
At any rate, two tools to choose from are always better than one.
Later.
S.
 
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