Video conversion tools and settings?

[Touche']

The HTC Encoder over at XDA takes approximately 3 hours to convert a 700mb .avi file...and that's only when it doesn't freeze 2/3 of the way through. All I want to do is take down the 700mb AVIs to about 350-400mbs. I have yet to find a program that can do this for TP2. I wish PocketDivXEncoder worked for TP2.

[dishe]

Originally Posted by Touche'

The HTC Encoder over at XDA takes approximately 3 hours to convert a 700mb .avi file...and that's only when it doesn't freeze 2/3 of the way through. All I want to do is take down the 700mb AVIs to about 350-400mbs. I have yet to find a program that can do this for TP2. I wish PocketDivXEncoder worked for TP2.

That's weird, I never had it freeze on me half way through... It DOES take a while, though. But that's because it's using h.264, which is already computationally expensive, and underneath the scenes its using FFMpeg (or maybe it was mencoder?), which is open source and currently only supports single threading. That means if you have dual cores, its only using one at a time.

PocketDivx also used single core threading, however divx is much less overhead to compress. The tradeoff, however, is lower quality/filesize ratio. Not to mention H.264 with the hardware accelerated playback actually plays smoother on our phones than divx with a non-accelerated player (coreplayer, tcpmp, etc).

You don't have to use the free tool, there are plenty of ways to write to h.264, including quicktime pro, Adobe premiere, Sony Vegas, etc... they use more efficient encoders capable of using multiple cores (SCREAMS on my quad core @ work), but they're not free. I happen to work in video content creation so I have a selection of tools at my disposal... Hard to beat that free tool at XDA, and I would still recommend it over anything else.

[eyepoker]

how do you feel about VDub? I'm capturing movies - just started yesterday - h264, 16:9, not sure of res though i think its around 640 in width at least (as i said i just started yesterday) - 2 hour video is about i think 700mb. Will try to see how it runs on the TP2 when i get home this evening.

Anyway, have you tried VDub, and if so, i suppose i should try to mimic the settings that were mentioned above where possible? Else any advice on that particular application. Will of course look at the apps that were mentioned.