- 11-16-2009, 06:12 AM #1
Anyone have any tips on encoding settings to put video on the droid? I know the aspect ratio should be set to 16:9, but what else? What program did you use?
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- 11-16-2009, 12:59 PM #2
Re: Encoding Video for the Droid?
I don't have a Droid yet, although it's on my to-do list. (My New Every Two comes up in December, so I intend to be in my local Verizon store ASAP after the beginning of the month.) However, I'd say it's probably not all that hard to do. According to the official Motorola tech specs, the Droid supports 720x480 video (actually, I think the screen is 854x480) and a ton of various codecs, among which is MPEG-4. DivX and its Open Source alternative XviD are both MPEG-4 encodings, so in theory anything that encodes to DivX and XviD should work.
In the past, I've used Auto Gordian Knot to encode videos for my Palm LifeDrive and Treo for playback in TCPMP. You'd have to get your source video into a format AutoGK understands, which is relatively simple although [LEGAL_DISCLAMER]ripping DVDs is technically illegal according to the DCMA[/LEGAL_DISCLAMER]. Then it should just be a matter of specifying the screen size, codec, and compression quality. For that matter, DVDs are already 720x480, so DVD-sourced material shouldn't need to be resized. You'd want to play with the compression though to get the best trade-off between file size and video quality; on my old LifeDrive screen, I got decent quality at around 75% compression, but that was a smaller screen than on the Droid.
Once I finally get my Droid (C'mon, December!) I'm going to try this myself, but I don't have any way to test this theory for now. I hope someone else can give it a try in the interim.
EDIT: Hrm... well, I was going to post some helpful links, but this forum won't let me until I make so many posts. Oh well. I'm sure you know how to use Google....
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Re: Encoding Video for the Droid?
This seems to be a good program, i downloaded it, but haven't had a chance to to play with I use FLIP-FOR-MAC program on my Apple notebook.
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