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Originally Posted by spectrrr
soooooooooo all this talk about CONVERTING video to h.264 to play properly.......
But when I want to take a video file with me, it's kinda a last minute thing, I don't really have time to "convert" the file, that's a HUGE drawback IMO. What are the chances that someday there will actually be a supported DivX/XviD CODEC for the phone?
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From what I have read the processors on the current mobile devices cannot handle it. It is a pain, andf makes you wait, but what can you do? Carry a PC?
I use handbrake to encode and downsize. On a decent two year-old AMD dual core I can convert a one-hour video in about 10 minutes. I downsize big-time and set the quality level at only 50% in handbrake. Oh, and in handbrake you can do a batch so if I have a whole lot of videos I just downloaded from my favorite sports torrent site I can let them convert overnight and in the morning they are all ready for me.
Also, having them smaller (down converted) means the are smaller so I fit more on the device and even better they copy over MUCH quicker than the full-res file.
I hated the idea at first but now I don't mind. If I have no time to convert, I take an old laptop with me.
I'd like to think that in a couple years we'll be beyond this but in a couple years, people will be uploading even higher-res videos!
Good luck,
-Bob