Videos

[foleyjo]

Im going on holiday in a few weeks so Im converting films to watch on my GP2X while traveling.

What is the best format to put films in for space on sd card and for battery length. I dont want to loose too much quality in the film itself.

Also assuming the answer will be DivX or Xvid what exactly is the difference between the 2? Is there more than the fact they are just reversed??

One last thing Im using Total Video Converter to do conversions and I had an Xvid file which I converted to a smaller screen size but this seemed to increase the file size!! Anyone know why this would happen

 

[Alex.]

I use PocketDivX to convert my videos for the GP2X. I can get a 25 minute video to weight around 55Mb, with good visual and sound quality. I use the standard PDA/Pocket PC setting (any 320x240 will do well enough).

http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/

 

[trooper]

I use PocketDivX to convert my videos for the GP2X. I can get a 25 minute video to weight around 55Mb, with good visual and sound quality. I use the standard PDA/Pocket PC setting (any 320x240 will do well enough).

http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/



Seconded.

Trooper

 

[foleyjo]

I tried that but im loosing sound quality big time

 

[semyaza]

And in case anybody using Linux and wants to know have a look at avidemux http://avidemux.berlios.de/index.html . It's pretty good but I think you have to have an idea of what to do although there are some defaults. I notice it's also available on Windows and OS X too.

 

[mdinire]

You could try SUPER - http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

xviD will always work with your gp2x (in my experience) I remember a few Divx encodes didnt work

Settings I use - 320x240, Video @ 350kbs, Audio @ 128kbs, the output looks great on the 2x.

 

[Burbruee]

I just use ffmpeg and made a .bat file (for windows) with the following:
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ffmpeg -i %1 -s 320x240 -r 29.97 -b 1024 -ab 128 %2

After that I just do the following from a commandprompt:
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avi2gp2x.bat input.avi output.avi

It will use Divx4 as default I think if you don't specify something else.. Looks good on the GP2X though.