I just ripped my first movie!

[encece]

I just ripped my first movie and re-encoded it for viewing on the smartphone.

At just over 155MB it looks and sounds really good. No skipping at all...all in landscape mode via PocketTV. Perfect for my next plane-trip. (If they let me use it on the plane.)

First I ripped the movie with SmartRipper. Then I made an AVI with DVD2AVI. Then re-encoded using TMPGEnc.

I don't know if this is the preferred method but it worked for me.

[encece]

I just ripped my first movie and re-encoded it for viewing on the smartphone.

At just over 155MB it looks and sounds really good. No skipping at all...all in landscape mode via PocketTV. Perfect for my next plane-trip. (If they let me use it on the plane.)

First I ripped the movie with SmartRipper. Then I made an AVI with DVD2AVI. Then re-encoded using TMPGEnc.

I don't know if this is the preferred method but it worked for me.

[jenneth]

Cool! What movie is it? 8)

[encece]

ooops...sorry. The original Matrix. The first step to having the trilogy on one 512 card! Maybe I could squeeze the Animatrix on there as well. But I'll have plenty of room until the 2nd and 3rd come out on DVD!

[spg]

Very cool... 8) Not quite the theatre... but very cool. I've never encoded a video in TMPGEnc... I usually use DivX or WMV. How does this compare size wise to those? Just curious as to what is the best format. I may try encoding something and comparing them... if I get time later.

[xoiph]

What's the resolution like on SmartPhones?

[encece]

This is a screenshot from my phone using remote display. This is pretty much what I'm seeing on the phone.

[shareef]

encece it looks like you have encoded using the wrong aspect ratio, that's why the faces look tall and skinny.
You can fix this in tmpgenc under setting > advanced > source aspect ratio - try setting this to 1:1 (vga)

[spg]

Originally Posted by encece

This is a screenshot from my phone using remote display. This is pretty much what I'm seeing on the phone.

Ouch, I think I would get a crick in my neck turning it to watch at that angle. :P

That is actually better quality than I would have expected... it is actually pretty clear. Very nice.

[encece]

Originally Posted by shareef

encece it looks like you have encoded using the wrong aspect ratio, that's why the faces look tall and skinny.
You can fix this in tmpgenc under setting > advanced > source aspect ratio - try setting this to 1:1 (vga)

Yes...I think I may have typed in the wrong size. I did notice it but I wasn't about to do it again as the whole process takes hours! I'll try that next time. Thanks.

[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. ;-)