that is true, although my comment regarding pan and scan was meant to be broader than just the iPod/iPhone. I hate the fullscreen versions of movie releases vs. the widescreen version DVDs. The iphone does just zoom to change the aspect ratio from 16:9 or 2.35:1 to something else by cropping off the sides. Actually what is the aspect ratio of the zoomed in screen? I will have to pull out my ruler.
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that is true, although my comment regarding pan and scan was meant to be broader than just the iPod/iPhone. I hate the fullscreen versions of movie releases vs. the widescreen version DVDs. The iphone does just zoom to change the aspect ratio from 16:9 or 2.35:1 to something else by cropping off the sides. Actually what is the aspect ratio of the zoomed in screen? I will have to pull out my ruler.
Totally agree with you on the wide/full screen issue. I believe the aspect ratio of the iPhone is 1.5:1 or something very close to that.
Space saving settings
Handbrake is amazing! I got a very decent quality on my iPhone using an H.264 (ipod) with frame rate of 24, audio of 96 kbps, and target size of 400 MB (which will give a bitrate of around 300-400 kbps). This setting rips an average movie DVD for 1 1/2 hours on a MacBook and usually makes the final size less than 400 Megs! An 8GB iPhone can therefore hold around 20 movies! I currently placed 5 on mine. Now, together with a airline headphone charger, I can enjoy long flights!
Handbrake is amazing! I got a very decent quality on my iPhone using an H.264 (ipod) with frame rate of 24, audio of 96 kbps, and target size of 400 MB (which will give a bitrate of around 300-400 kbps). This setting rips an average movie DVD for 1 1/2 hours on a MacBook and usually makes the final size less than 400 Megs! An 8GB iPhone can therefore hold around 20 movies! I currently placed 5 on mine. Now, together with a airline headphone charger, I can enjoy long flights!
It shouldn't be. I have tried one DVD on a 640x4?? resolution without any problem. Maybe it should be on the H.264[ipod] setting. What's the difference between H.264[ipod] with other H.264?
The iphone has the same restrictions on x264 as the iPod; it can not play files encoded with the main profile, only the ipod (profile level 3) one.
Revisiting this thread, there is now an iPhone preset in HandBrake.
It automatically crops the video, the width is 480 pixels. Single pass H264, with average bitrate of 960. I think with this you should be able to zoom in during playback on iPhone, no? (I don't have one yet.)
I did some research and it seems that 2-pass does not deliver significant quality improvement with H264, 1-pass delivers close to same quality with much less encoding time. On my MacBook I get faster than real-time encoding with H264 which is very nice (35-40 fps.)
I also played around with some different bitrates. I find 500 kbps to be my personal cutoff (any lower and the artifacts start to intrude.) Obviously that cutoff varies from person to person, and whether you are more concerned with file size or picture quality. 400 kbps was not horribly objectionable to me (and thus also a reasonable compromise to save space.) I could also see using 600 kbps for certain movies I wanted to convert with better absolute quality. Anything above that seems excessive for me in terms of using too much storage space on a portable device.
It automatically crops the video, the width is 480 pixels. Single pass H264, with average bitrate of 960. I think with this you should be able to zoom in during playback on iPhone, no? (I don't have one yet.)
I did some research and it seems that 2-pass does not deliver significant quality improvement with H264, 1-pass delivers close to same quality with much less encoding time. On my MacBook I get faster than real-time encoding with H264 which is very nice (35-40 fps.)
I also played around with some different bitrates. I find 500 kbps to be my personal cutoff (any lower and the artifacts start to intrude.) Obviously that cutoff varies from person to person, and whether you are more concerned with file size or picture quality. 400 kbps was not horribly objectionable to me (and thus also a reasonable compromise to save space.) I could also see using 600 kbps for certain movies I wanted to convert with better absolute quality. Anything above that seems excessive for me in terms of using too much storage space on a portable device.