I use VirtualDub under windows to make AVIs for my Dell Axim. I use 320x240 and a 200K bitrate. I think the videos look great on the handheld and an hour long show minus commercials is about 75M.
Jeff On 4/26/05, Mike Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Mike Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi > > > > Has anyone got exporting files for viewing on a Portable device working? > > I've > > got an Archos AV400 and currently transfer the nuv files over to > > Windows before > > converting them. Obviously, this is a bit of a faff and I'm sure > > there must be > > some way to do it in Linux > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions > > > > Kind Regards > > > > Mike > > > > Hi > > Nobody responded to my original request, so I've been doing a lot of playing > around with all the options available, such as mkmovie, nuvexport to divx and > xvid, and also playing with all the various tools available on Linux such as > mencoder, ffmpeg, etc > > A lot of the methods I tried all ended up with similar results, but I > was always > left with a lot of progressive scan issues on the portable, and quite > often the > sound would be a second or so delayed (this may be because of a separate > problem I seem to be having with my dvb card skipping after about 4:30 minutes > on every recording at the moment for some reason I haven't quite worked out. > Also, some of the more satisfactory results required enormous amounts of > processing time on an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3200+ Processor and processing through > two separate programs. > > Anyway, the reason for the post was to say that it looks as though I've struck > gold. The following command gives me fantastic results every time with > no audio > snyncing problems whatsoever. Also, this encodes direct from the Myth nuv file > directly to the avi in one go. On my system it encodes about 25fps which is > realtime for the uk, also I'm not sure if I should be expecting a better > compression ratio - ie, a 1.8Gb file compresses down to about 480Mb > > mencoder -oac mp3lame -vf scale=352:192 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts > pass=2:bitrate=900 -o /mythtv/video/Jamies\ School\ Dinners.avi > /mythtv/recordings/1008_20050309210000_20050309220000.nuv > > I hope this helps anyone out in a similar position to myself. > > Incidentally, does anyone know whether mythweb is going to be updated to allow > you to queue jobs remotely? It's be well handy if I could queue a job up to do > this. > > Cheers > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
