Playing movies.. best rate to encode at?

[MattOktaNZ]

I watch movies on my Vogue when I want to watch an action flick that the girlfriend doesn't and I can't be bothered firing up the laptop.

So.. Whats the best rate/format to encode in?

So far i use MediaCoder and encode at 320x240/xvid-Mp4 video and AAC audio, 15fps. This gets 700mb movies down to 200mb odd. And I watch them with TCPMP.

Does changing the 15fps to 25fps increase the cpu load and decrease battery life?

Is AAC or MP4 audio the best encoding to use?

Anything else I'm missing?

[Ovendoor]

Originally Posted by MattOktaNZ

I watch movies on my Vogue when I want to watch an action flick that the girlfriend doesn't and I can't be bothered firing up the laptop.

So.. Whats the best rate/format to encode in?

So far i use MediaCoder and encode at 320x240/xvid-Mp4 video and AAC audio, 15fps. This gets 700mb movies down to 200mb odd. And I watch them with TCPMP.

Does changing the 15fps to 25fps increase the cpu load and decrease battery life?

Is AAC or MP4 audio the best encoding to use?

Anything else I'm missing?

I use a combination of Divx/Plato Video Converter with basically the resolution, audio and frames...I think it's a nice blend of quality and compression.

[jeffrey23]

Now i'm new to this ...but why do you have to encode to watch movies on the touch...I thought that it can play avi files directly....Now I havent tried to watch movies on it but thats what i thought after reading it in the manual...am i missing something???

[MattOktaNZ]

Yeah you can just copy a 700MB movie file to your phone and play it with Windows Media player or TCPMP..

The reason you re-encode it is to reduce the file from 700mb down to 200mb (saves space on your SD card).

And because the movies have screen resolutions of approx 600x400 whereas the Touch has 320x240 so the movie will appear squashed when full screened. Reencoding also reduces the sampling rate of the audio to help reduce size.

Also movies are typically 25 frames per second, I encode to 15 frames instead as its perfectly watchable and I assume saves processing power and battery life.

25fps plays fine but doesn't to me look better than 15 fps..

Still would like to know what settings other people perfer and why

[jeffrey23]

Thank you fo the reply... wil check out ur encoder and maybe give it a go

[JoePuetoRico]

I heard there was a site where you can download the files already encoded does anyone know if it's true? and wich site is it ?