[adramshaw]

Aloha,

Will be going to a land where DVD players are scarce, and a mere TV will be something to rejoice over!!

Have some DVD's i recently got in, that i'd love to take with me on my break!

Was wondering if there's any way i can Rip the video from the DVD, put them on my N95 8GB's memory, and use the TV-output cable to play the films on the TV (with composite yellow, red, white input) when i get there.

Can anyone tell me if that will be possible?

If so, what video format will i need to convert them to? What would be the best converter, DVD ripper & codec settings, etc.

Thanks!!

[alanp]

yes, it can be done, have done it myself. I use 'Super' or 'Any Video Converter' both freeware to convert. Your biggest problem will be... Higher quality? so it looks good on the tv OR lower quality? to fit more dvd's on your phone

[grschinon]

Also note that the phone will output to TV at its own resolution of 320x240, so there's no point in maintaining higher resolution than that.

[alanp]

Oh OK... I wonder what setting I have changed to have some looking blockier than others?

[adramshaw]

So..... can i rip my DVD using super?

I'm really not good with this computer stuff, sorry!

Have the 8gb 7.5gb full of music atm.

Can clear down maybe 3-4GB, so will be able to have 4gb-5gb of free memory (i love the n95 8gb!!!) how many films at best quality (considering output limit) should i be able to whack on?

Would maybe ideally have 6 or so, sounds fair.

[grschinon]

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10-Aug-2008 11:07 AM
alanp wrote:
Oh OK... I wonder what setting I have changed to have some looking blockier than others?

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Too low a bitrate maybe?

At 320x240, any MPEG4 stream below, say, 200-250 kbps is going to look blocky.

[alanp]

I have ripped a dvd using super but I seem to remember that I also often had trouble doing it that way so you might want to google for a program to rip with and just use super to re-encode with.

It's been a while but I think my settings were:
Video Scale 320:240
Aspect 4:3
Frames per Sec: 29.95
Bitrate 1248

I think they may/might have been the default for mp4 as I seem to get better output than if I encode for 3gp.

[adramshaw]

i've been doing a 640x320 Mpeg4 codec output, as that actually allows the TV to display it in 640x320!

one problem though.... the files i convert with super seem to have very low volume! Need to turn the TV & phone up to full to get a reasonable volume.

is there any way to increase the volume of the videos through an application or another converter

[el_loco]

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10-Aug-2008 09:44 AM
grschinon wrote:
Also note that the phone will output to TV at its own resolution of 320x240, so there's no point in maintaining higher resolution than that.

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Actually this information is inaccurate.

The phone outputs VGA 640x480 when playing video or watching pictures in TV-out.

So if you encode the video at VGA you WILL see a difference over QVGA when using TV-out. On the phone screen there is no difference since the phone is QVGA only.

There's an option in SUPER to boost the audio. An audio gain option, check it out. Can't remember exactly where but I've used it a couple of times.

Message Edited by el_loco on 11-Aug-2008 05:47 PM