This morning I decided to watch the Lullabot Drupal 4.7.x to 5.x Conversion Tutorial. Thing is - my work PC doesn't have sound plus it's not ideal to watch a video and work on the same screen - not enough screen real estate.
I own a Sony Ericsson K800i, and have done for almost a year. Personally I think it's the best phone I've ever owned. I know it can play video's, however the one from the Lullabot site is going to be WAY too high quality for playback on a mobile phone. PSP Video 9 to the rescue!
How?
A quick google turned up this page: How to encode video for SE Handphones. This has a very thorough settings list for video and audio configuration.
I chose to use PSP Video 9 which is a completely free video converter for converting videos into MP4.
I started with the highest quality video settings recommended by the above How To. This is:
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Video Settings
- Mode: SP > A-VBR
- Bitrate: 192 kbps
- Resolution: 176 X 144
- Framerate: 14.985 fps
- Passes: 2
- Min Rate: 48
- Max Rate: 256
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Audio Settings
- Bitrate: 48 kbps
- Channels: Stereo
- Sample Rate: 32000 Hz
One thing to note about PSP Video 9 is that its profiles are designed to work for a widescreen PSP with considerably more "horsepower" than a mobile phone. It took me a few minutes to realise that I can manually edit the contents of the drop down boxes.
After setting the above configuration as a profile, I set the program going on the 38Mb Lullabot tutorial video. It took my work machine (P4 2.8Ghz, 1Gb RAM) about 5 minutes to do the 2 pass convert. I checked it out using VideoLAN (a free all-pupose player) before loading it onto the phone and it worked fine.
I plugged the phone into the PC using the provided USB cable and copied the now 15Mb (less than half the origional size) video onto the memory card. I then opened the video using the Video Player option under Entertainment. After setting it to fullscreen and landscape, I watched and listened away while typing up this blog entry!
I am going to use this same process to convert up some video's I'll be recording using my WinTV Nova Stick T. This should make my daily commute MUCH more bearable!
"not enough screen real estate"
Dude, you need a 30" screen. Then you can watch a video, message, read your emails and do some work at the same time. You know it makes sense.
Thank god for this info, ive
Thank god for this info, ive been trying to put a video on my k8ooi for a while now but have failed to do so. Its just so hard to find a mp4 converter that converts files fully. Im at work at the moment but as soon as i get home im going to try this. Thanks for posting it on the net.
Thanks mate well
Thanks mate well appreciated...
Tested it out works perfectly
10/10
brilliant
i have been puting on the simpsons movie and the audio was well off from the video thanks to this i can now watch is smothly bit of a porblem downloading it thow
Will this work for films....?
i was wondering if i could convert films from itunes using pspvideo 9 as i no longer have an ipod ... ?