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Shah33m
20-07-2010, 05:07 PM
ok so i finally got time to encode entourage for my phone and wow am i blown away, honestly the quality is better than my pc LCD.
i use AVC (any video converter)
video codec: x264
video size: 720x480
video bitrate: 768
audio bitrate: 160
Any opinions of other users that have encoded?
francoislr
21-07-2010, 12:52 AM
It takes a few minutes to copy a video from your computer to your phone. That is wasted time. I download my shows exactly as I always do from the internet, and I copy it straight to my phone to watch. There is no reason to encode anything, you are just killing trees for no reason. Download Rockplayer(google a bit) and it should manage to play just about anything you throw at it...back in the day we had to encode things to watch on our phones...now it will work without having to waste time doing that. Also, upsizing won't improve the quality, and no show is worth it to even try it....you watch it once, you move on.
Oh, and the quality....it is awesome! AMOLED in action! Contrast ratio is so much better than just about any tv anyone has! Love it!
duncan1a
21-07-2010, 08:33 AM
Yeah, I prefer watching on my phone too. That hi contrast ratio and blacker than black black makes all the difference! (Just imagine what these new LED flatscreens must be like!)
It depends on what format and resolution you download your movies as to how well they'll play on your phone, if at all. I find Rockplayer jerkey with higher res videos, so I download iPhone versions of movies or use handbreak to convert higher res divX movies to the iPhone preset.
Iphone preset:
size: 480 x 272
codec: H.264
24 frames/s
mp4 wrapper
francoislr
21-07-2010, 08:48 AM
Like HD videos? Yeah, there I can understand...I have not even had enough space to try an HD video on my phone:-l
Just installed Rock Player. Nice app. Works very will with a few avi i threw at it. 3GP not so great, makes a loud static clicking type noise.
Monkey101
21-07-2010, 09:40 AM
Trying out a non converted video on my Galaxy S now. Should work, i think.
Sweet! It worked.
Played a 700Mb Avi file no problem.
Shah33m
21-07-2010, 06:12 PM
It takes a few minutes to copy a video from your computer to your phone. That is wasted time. I download my shows exactly as I always do from the internet, and I copy it straight to my phone to watch. There is no reason to encode anything, you are just killing trees for no reason. Download Rockplayer(google a bit) and it should manage to play just about anything you throw at it...back in the day we had to encode things to watch on our phones...now it will work without having to waste time doing that. Also, upsizing won't improve the quality, and no show is worth it to even try it....you watch it once, you move on.
Oh, and the quality....it is awesome! AMOLED in action! Contrast ratio is so much better than just about any tv anyone has! Love it!
but encoding lets me put alot of media on the tiny 4GB flash, after encoding a 300MB file it ends up 73MB :)
francoislr
21-07-2010, 06:27 PM
Ahhh! Point made;-) I should maybe do that...I used to encode videos 4 years ago on my SE w900i, was so awesome! but it was a huge mission...my pc sucks...it's just quicker for me to just copy, watch, delete, repeat cycle. But maybe I will try that again:-)
Also gonna get a 16gb MicroSD first thing this new month...HD video recording takes like 1mb a second, and I want to be able to keep a number of games/cd's,/videos and such on the phone. Would have loved 32gb, but can't find prices anywhere...sigh!
Shah33m
21-07-2010, 07:47 PM
it takes about 20mins to encode a 300MB file, i encode over night so that i don't have to carry my laptop to varsity, i now watch my movies and series on the phone. i must stress that the quality and smoothness is AWESOME!!
francoislr
21-07-2010, 11:02 PM
If only I had the luxury of the time to do that! I am too fussy...if I wanna watch House now, I don't want anything else...and if it's How I met Your Mother, nothing else will do...so I might end up with a few too many shows on my phone, and I won't effectively watch them. I guess that if we had unlimited data plans one could stream WHATEVER you want at that moment from home...that would have rocked!