phunni Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 I want to try and rip my DVDs to a format that means I can play them on my MS smartphone. I've been told that divx can do this and I notice that there's a version for Linux, but does anyone know if it's ableto reduce the picture size down enough? The smaller the image then the smaller the file size, I believe. It needs to be able to convert to a format that can be read on a windows smartphone. Media Player is installed, but I could probably get hold of another one if required... Suggestions please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted December 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2005 bump - any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted December 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 OK - last night I used dvd::rip to rip about an hour of video from a DVD and encode it to Xvid at 220x176 ( the appropriate size for my phone). I encountered a few problems: 1) The initial file that dvd::rip rips to is enourmous. An hour of vidoe takes over a gig of disk space. Surely this isn't necessary, but I can't see a way of getting it smaller... 2) The ripped & encoded file is also huge - 160 MB. A colleague of mine had a full feature film on his Pocket PC and it was 160MB. It's split into 2 files of 80MB. My file is encoded to a smaller size (220x176) so it should be smaller, plus it's only an hour so it must be possible to get good quality at around 80MB - so what am I doing wrong...? 3) The audio is very, very slightly out of sync with the video. Not much, but enough to be annoying... Perhaps I should rip and encode to a larger resolution and then encode for my phone - but the files are already huge - I'm not sure I've actually got enough hard disc space... Can anyone share any wisdom? Is there something I can tweak? Should I be using different software for any of these steps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uralmasha Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 You may try Avidemux. It has an option of shrinking files to a given size, and can even do it very fast. Alongside it can shift the audio, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josk Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 There is good AV based forum. Check it out! I think that you should lower audio bitrates if u haven't allready. http://www.doom9.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted December 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 (edited) I have reduced the audio bitrates. I've also tried reducing the framerate slightly - which seems to actually increase the file size in transcode. I may actually be forced to do this in windows as I simply can't get the files to a reasonable enough size in linux. Although I haven't quite given up yet... Edited December 21, 2005 by phunni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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