HOw to put movies on our phone???

[bonabob]

I have so many AVI files of movies and also other formats.

I will use one for an example.
I have Rocky Balboa, its 775 Megs in AVI format.
What is the best way to put this on our phone?
I obviously would like to cut the size down, make it a smaller resolution.

What programs are needed and whats the best format?

THANKS!

[EtrnlWolf]

There are a lot of software to do it, depends on your own technical level which one you wanna use. There are "1-click" type of software that doesn't give you much control over it, but are easy to use ( when they work )

My preference is to do it by hand, so I use TMPGENC Express. The vogue has builtin support for 3GP video format, so I created a profile for that and just fiddle with the settings according to what I'm encoding. I don't worry too much about size, once you drop it down to 320x240 and drop the audio/video bitrates down i find the resulting sizes are OK, iirc I got Superman Doomsday down to 450mb give er take a few.

[Tenny]

As for encoding I would suggest PocketDivxEncoder ( http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/ ) and load any of the devices with 320x240 res. And modify the settings there.

For playing TheCore player is pretty good as it can play better with the chipset, but I am not sure of it's support for divx, etc. Look into that, or I would suggest TCPMP.

[MattOktaNZ]

What encoding is best on battery life? I see in the manual the HTC Vogue should play 10hours of WMV or something like that..

I have encoded Rambo IV down from 700mb (xvid) to 177MB (mp4 aac audio 300x240 15fps). I watched a 1.5hr movie (no country for old men) and it took battery from 90% down to 20%

Soo what encoding gives you best battery life?

[bonabob]

so i got this progam called clone dvd mobile by slysoft, it seems awesome, its got a slider bar on it, and you set it at any size you want ,it puts it in the correct resolutioand then you can set the size, i put at 400 megs, it will be done in about 1 hour, we shall see how it turns out...

[bonabob]

also its an .avi format, i like that