Movie Question

[Ender]

I was wondering if there is any other way to play a full length movie (assuming it's approximately 700 megs) on the GP2x other than putting the file on a SD card and playing it through that. I question because I don't see myself going out and buying several GB SD cards just so I can carry around a couple movies with me. Is there no other way to take your vids with you?

Thanks.

 

[Yuglooc]

Well, if your gonna play them on the GP2x, convert the movie to 320x240. And kablam, your movie is now around 50-100 megs. And why would you run around with 10 movies? ^^ So 1 GB SD is enough.

 

[Hanz™]

Well, if your gonna play them on the GP2x, convert the movie to 320x480. And kablam, your movie is now around 50-100 megs.

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If you want good quality I would say 300-400mb.

Edit: You could probably get about 4 movies on a 2GB card.

 

[Ender]

Ok, so were looking at two movies per GB SD card. What program would be good for doing these alterations?

Well, I'd like to "run around" with multiple movies because of going long intervals without being home...

 

[Vimacs]

Well, you get ok quality at gp32 at 120mb and we only use divx4, a 250 mb 320*240 divx5 should be pretty good quality.

For encodeing virtualdubmod is a good choice.

 

[Ender]

Good call on Vdubmod. I do have that.

 

[Ravnos]

If you're using *nix you can probably do that with Transcode as well. I haven't played around with it myself, though, so I don't know for sure.

 

[TomVS]

I agree on virtualdub.... However there is a commercial program called Pocket DVD Studio that converts everything you throw at it. DVD with Subtitles... multiple codecs... at a chosen resolution ... hassle free I use it sometimes to convert video for my Sony Clié...

Well worth to take a look at...

 

[Flaming Monkey]

on *unix you can use mplayer's cousin app, mencoder.

to resize and downsize a 699mb DivX movie you would use something similar to this:

mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=700 -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=96 -vf scale=320:240 -o output_movie.avi input_movie.avi

This is just a fast 1pass encode, if you want to learn more about mencoder or how to do high quality rips with Xvid then check out Gentoo's How-To guide

NOTE: Because it uses mplayer's code base, it can convert all formats mplayer can play.

 

[OrR]

Resolution should be 320*240.

 

[Shadowlord]

Do you know 'PocketDivxEncoder'? It's freeware, easy to use and fast.

 

[scoobydew]

You could also try Auto GK(Gordian Knot) to encode perfect quality AVI files from DVDs(if that is your source). http://www.autogk.me.uk/
There are many guides on how to do this at www.videohelp.com just do a search for the Auto GK tool or search under guides.

I prefer Auto GK for DVDs to AVI(Divx or XVID) as it runs it in 2-passes and all the files it has created for me look great. You can specify the file size you want for each movie/episode and it allows subtitles as well as mp3 Variable bit rates or constant bit rates. A good start would be for every 30 minutes of video plan to use about 100-150mb for some real nice playback.

Virtualdub is excellent also and www.videohelp.com should have some guides for you there as well.

If your source is already AVI, Mpeg1, etc.. format then use virtualdub and one of the guides on videohelp.com
Good luck. Joe.

 

[junker]

what i'm going to do is just resize my videos to 320x240 w/ virtualdubmod, or rip dvds directly to 320x240 resolution. only going to use higher resolution if planning on watching on the tv

 

[OrR]

You could also try Auto GK(Gordian Knot) to encode perfect quality AVI files from DVDs(if that is your source). http://www.autogk.me.uk/
There are many guides on how to do this at www.videohelp.com just do a search for the Auto GK tool or search under guides.

I prefer Auto GK for DVDs to AVI(Divx or XVID) as it runs it in 2-passes and all the files it has created for me look great. You can specify the file size you want for each movie/episode and it allows subtitles as well as mp3 Variable bit rates or constant bit rates. A good start would be for every 30 minutes of video plan to use about 100-150mb for some real nice playback.

Virtualdub is excellent also and www.videohelp.com should have some guides for you there as well.

If your source is already AVI, Mpeg1, etc.. format then use virtualdub and one of the guides on videohelp.com
Good luck. Joe.

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AutoGK is great, the only problem is that it refuses to make low quality files...

 

[lubidog]

But can I play my Mpeg4s that I have for my PSP on it, or do I need to convert them?

(Stupid question, but I don't know much about this, YET!!!)

 

[OrR]

I'm pretty sure you won't need to convert them.

 

[silentguy]

hm, I'm pretty new to converting videos, can anyone give me some tips about setting to make within my vdubmod? i just told it to resize vrom 640x480 to 320x240 and clicked on xvid (or divx 5.1.1) as a codec without changing any codec settings... but it seems that there are some more settings to be changed cause it just changed the filesize from 175 to 160, which is not that good...

 

[reallynotnick]

hm, I'm pretty new to converting videos, can anyone give me some tips about setting to make within my vdubmod? i just told it to resize vrom 640x480 to 320x240 and clicked on xvid (or divx 5.1.1) as a codec without changing any codec settings... but it seems that there are some more settings to be changed cause it just changed the filesize from 175 to 160, which is not that good...

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put your bitrate at between 350kbs and 700kbs

 

[Phil]

Hey you know how it uses Mplayer?

Could you just whack in the RM codecs to make it play RM files?

 

[theoddbot]

Hey you know how it uses Mplayer?

Could you just whack in the RM codecs to make it play RM files?

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Not the binary codecs, as they need to run on x86. Doesnt even work on x86-64.