Miro, Miro, on my phone

April 7, 2008 3:40 PM

How to I find the proper settings for recoding video to play on my Smartphone?

So I love Miro. But I have a chronic backlog of videos to watch, since I'm not at my computer to watch them. I'd like to recode them so I can watch them on my smartphone. But I can't figure out the proper settings to get them to play. I'd also like to do the same with the occasional DVD rip.

In the past, I have made DVD rips made using Handbrake work on a Palm TX with TCMP, but I haven't had success yet with the following combination:

Phone: AT&T Q9h global :
Display Type: LCD (Color TFT/TFD)
Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
Colors: 65,536 (16-bit)
Media Player: = whatever the mobile (WM6) version of Windows Media Player is.

Supported Formats: wmv, wma, mp3, mpeg4, h263, h264, real audio, real video, aac

Computer: G4 running OSX, have Handbrake and ffmpegX

Video: various types: .flv, mp4, m4a, m4v.

The most success I've gotten was to get sound, but no video.

Can anyone give me any tips for the proper codec/settings?

Bonus for being able to do this in a batch, or automate it, so I can do a daily/weekly "dump + convert" routine.

posted by penciltopper to Computers & Internet (1 answer total)

SPB creates a awesome program for file and dvd conversion. download it from most any smartphone software site. i use it and it converted Fight Club to under 400MB.

cost about $20

you will want a srorage card
posted by jseven at 9:38 PM on April 7, 2008