[peters]

Hi everybody!

I read verry interesting discuss about video converting a few days ago. I love you my SMARTPHONE because this is freedom, really freedom!
I create many, many movies and think than my information could be help to many people.
At first, you have to put a basic question. What is better? SlideShow or Really fluently moving pictures. My choise is simply becauce I allways prefer just QUALITY!
What you need?

GuardianKnot (full)
BeSweet
OggMux
XviD codec
BetaPlayer (in Smartphone)

...and... a little bit of time

Why NOT DivX? Because isnt free and mainly DivX with bitrate under 200kbps produce very, very, very ugly pictures!!! XviD is the bright winner in this possition.
This is my recipe for you smile:

Run GuardianKnot.
0; Personalize your GuardianKnot
1; Decrypt DVD
2; Prepare the VOBs (all basic instructions are in the boxes)
3; After project saving you have to switch direct to Resolution section and click on the OPEN button. Select your e.g. movie.d2v. Then check Input resolution, IPAR (The most of DVDs are anamorphic) and switch Disable in CROP section and click on AutoCrop button. After few seconds GK crop all black borders. You have to change output resolution down to Width: 220 and Height: 160 ( W/H modul=2). I like wide screen but SmartPhohe display has size too little and 2,35:1 is useless. I use a little trick. Change the value of cropping (only vertical size)(click on arrows) in the Crop section. You have to watch information in AspectRatio box. Optimal is value between 1.44 to 1.33 (crop L/R is about 90). What more information do you need for this? Just Total movie lenght and movie preview. You have to drag the slider in the preview window and check the movie composition (how far are the actors heads etc.). You can set the start of credits and if is all correct and usable and Save and encode. Check the First Pass in XviD, Second Pass (must be selected B-frames!!!) (optimal bitrate for full screen is 180kbps) and thats all for VIDEO. Whole process take the time for about 1-2 hours. You must create sound, yet. Ideal tool is BeSweet. Open ac3 file, select downsampling to 44.1kHz. Output format is OGG with 56kbps. It takes for about 30min. Now you have to mux video+audio. OggMux is very simple tool but good. Muxing takes a few seconds.
Thats all.
I know, exists a many form how to create good movie for SmartPhone, but this is very simple, very quick and without compromises. All parametres are optimal and balanced. Benchmark on Betaplayer has sufficient reserve (175%) and movie experience is really charming. I tell you flat than this movies are the right reason why my friends are sad. Sad because their mobile phone looks like a toy for children.

Sorry, my english is horrible because I started to learh this wonderful language just a few months ago.

Very, very thanks for your time whitch you spended with my lines...

Peter

Note: You can change a many parametres, but at first you MUST to try your configuration because the reachest is our time.