I'm thinking of getting the new iPod, however all this converting makes me wonder if its worth it.
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iPod Converting Movies for use on iPod Video
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mills04 said:
i'd say it is; it only takes me between 5-6 hours to rip a movie, so i've been doing three a day: one @ night, one while i'm @ school, and maybe one when i get home. just so long as you don't do "serious" computing, it shouldn't take much longer than 8 hours at most.
asherman13 said:
I've got a program on the PC called 'Videora iPod converter' which seems pretty quick at the mo, not sure about the quality tho. Its definately a nice bit of equipment, just don't know if its worth the £200 that Apple are charging (with my educational discount off).
Videora iPod converter works AMAZING..i love it! i use a free dvd ripper they have suggested (dvd decrypter) and i followed there posted instructions..and all i can say is its easy, fast and look great! Though one problem i saw is when i ripped with the PSP one i got wide screen..when i ripped a widescreen movie with Videora it made it full screen..im sure there is a way ot change it though
I was wondering what that was, thought it might be for watching via the dock on a widescreen TV.
I found you can use the "crop" feature in Handbrake to turn widescreen movies into fullscreen pretty easily. You just need to crop the left and right anywhere from 60-100 and then tweak the screen size up or down until you hit the magic 320x240 screen size. What you get is a perfectly formatted fullscreen movie from a widescreen original.
I found you can use the "crop" feature in Handbrake to turn widescreen movies into fullscreen pretty easily. You just need to crop the left and right anywhere from 60-100 and then tweak the screen size up or down until you hit the magic 320x240 screen size. What you get is a perfectly formatted fullscreen movie from a widescreen original.
xraydoc said:
ibglowin said:
hmm...tried that with "starsky and hutch" and it didn't "perfectly" format it...i dunno why...
anyways, i'm just sayin what's already been said, but for those of you who want to convert movies to h.264 from another format and don't want to / can't pay 30$ for qtPro, check this out:
http://www.cliff.biffle.org/software/enpod/ <-- it's called Enpod
every time I try convert a DVD source (either from the original disc or from harddrive) to h.246 using handbrake, the sound gets offset for some reason. When I launch the converted movie, sound starts to play a bit later than the video... pretty annoying.
Anybody else experiencing this ? I tried the exact settings recommended in one of the tutorials, doesn't seem to make any difference. I am still running 10.3 (on a G4 iBook)... not sure if that makes a difference.
Any ideas ? Thanks.
Anybody else experiencing this ? I tried the exact settings recommended in one of the tutorials, doesn't seem to make any difference. I am still running 10.3 (on a G4 iBook)... not sure if that makes a difference.
Any ideas ? Thanks.
kugino said:
The previous version of Handbrake encoded .mp4 files in H.264 with a "Main Profile." iPods use "Baseline Profile" which meant that Handbrake H.264 files did not work on the iPod, only the MPEG-4 encoded files worked. I don't know what the technical differences were between the two.
It means we can now encode directly into H.264 and utilise the massive increase in quality that the format allows.
I have been using ffmpegX to copy some music folders over to an iPod compatible format. These files are AVI and have been using the PSP option. I have set the video option correct, but under the audio I use acc at 128kbps. The movie turns at fine and plays in quicktime and iTunes, however there is no sound 
Why?
Why?
This worked for me beautifully. The settings I used were:
File format: MP4
Codecs: AVC/H.264 Video
Encoder: x264 (Baseline profile)
Average bitrate: 650
Picture settings: 320 width (height auto adjusts)
2-pass encoding: unchecked. It takes forever as it is!
File format: MP4
Codecs: AVC/H.264 Video
Encoder: x264 (Baseline profile)
Average bitrate: 650
Picture settings: 320 width (height auto adjusts)
2-pass encoding: unchecked. It takes forever as it is!
mills04 said:
It's still early yet. There's going to be new '1-step' software that eliminates most or all the technical stuff, settings, etc.
There's some stuff out already, but I'm talking about a single program that will convert everything (including avi's, etc.) to a couple of good presets for iPod.
EDIT- Try this one-
http://homepage.mac.com/tylerl82/ (free, actually uses ffmpegx but hides the complicated stuff.)