Movie size question

[ipaq38vette]

Im wondering how small someone can make a .wmv movie file. The movie would be about 2 hours long in 320x240 resolution with decent quality and sound. If anyone out there has done this, could you respond with the file size.

[Jason Dunn]

320 x 240 resolution is officially supported with the 9 Series Encoder, but no Pocket PC can play that file because the 9 Series player for the Pocket PC isn't out yet. :cry:

In terms of pure file size, it varies depending on the movie, but I took a Conan the Barbarian movie that was 400 MB in MPEG1 and turned it into a 250 MB 9 Series WMV (if memory serves - I don't have the files in front of me now).

You may want to look at encoding to DivX since there is a Pocket PC DivX player.

[ipaq38vette]

Any idea when wmp 9 for Pocket PC will be released? Is this 9 series wmp going to be released embedded into CE.net or as another EUU update?

[RageFury]

Just re-encode it with DivX using FlaskMPEG, and you can skimp on the resolution quite a bit, I wouldn't make the movies over 240X180, just play it full-screen, you wouldn't notice a difference, and the file size would be quite a bit less.

[ppcsurfr]

In the msdn articles, it states that WMV v7 is the one best suited for StrongARM devices... I guess this goes for X-scale too.

But if you encode WMV v8 and WMA v9 in VBR, you get playable video on your PPC.

ppcsurfr

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[spursdude]

45 minute video I've compressed into about 70 MB, probably around 200MB like Jason said.