I just ripped my first movie!

[xoiph]

Oh wow 8O, that's a whole lot better than i expected for a Smartphone; I wonder why they made the Smartphone UI so plain.

[xoiph]

Oh wow 8O, that's a whole lot better than i expected for a Smartphone; I wonder why they made the Smartphone UI so plain.

[encece]

That was just full screen. All of the menus were hidden.

[encece]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

One of the best tips I can give you is to crop out the excess black space above and below the image - it looks like you may have encoded it. You can trim a good 20% off your file size by cropping those out.

BTW, what bit rate did you use?

Someday we'll have a really great walkthrough on encoding video for your Smartphone. ;-)

The size I used was 224 x 176...With a source 4:3 aspect ratio....That may be the reason for the slight vertical elongation. Should I have had the source set to 1:1???

The settings were set at....
MPEG-1
224x176
29.97fps
CQ_VBR 11
Layer-2
44100Hz 32kbps

Here is the tutorial I should have followed from the beginning:
http://www.pocketmovies.net/dvdrip.php3

[spg]

Originally Posted by encece

The size I used was 224 x 176...With a source 4:3 aspect ratio....That may be the reason for the slight vertical elongation. Should I have had the source set to 1:1???

The settings were set at....
MPEG-1
224x176
29.97fps
CQ_VBR 11
Layer-2
44100Hz 32kbps

Here is the tutorial I should have followed from the beginning:
http://www.pocketmovies.net/dvdrip.php3

Those are pretty good settings (as in quality)... I bet that really looks pretty good on the phone's screen. I would think 1:1 would have been the best aspect ratio to put it on... but I'm not as much of a digital video expert as Jason is, so he probably knows better.

[shareef]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

Someday we'll have a really great walkthrough on encoding video for your Smartphone. ;-)

a great step-by-step guide here:
http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=787

[shareef]

Originally Posted by encece

Should I have had the source set to 1:1???

yes encece, 1:1.
I had the same problem and setting it to 1:1 fixed it for me.
You should set it to 1:1, and encode for a few minutes, then check the output. Verify it's right before encoding the entire movie...

[xxpinballxx]

I have seen a program at a few sites for the DVD to smartphone.

Is this not a good way to do it since its all pretty much done for you?

I was thinking of purchasing it but decided to read up on it first.

[encece]

Wow this is such and old thread. That program was probably just being thought of at the time. YES...I now have Pocket DVD Studio and it works great...easy and in one step!

[rrape]

encece:

Does Pocket DVD Studio produce files you can view on Win Media Player 10? Or does it only produce files for play on BetaPlayer?

[encece]

I'll have to look when I get home. I forget which format it ripps them to.