hey folks,
was using xilisoft converter, and converted a bunch of .avi's no prob. I just input the same resolution as source file, and although not sure if necessary, set it to 2-pass encode. this worked great for all my toons.
couple questions:
I'm using Meridian Player (upgraded, although IDK what that did for me exactly), and anything approaching 1,000kbps gives a warning that video may lag or not play. they play, but I read somewhere that bitrate was capped at 1,000, don't know if for Meridian Player, or for Droid, but people are talking about bitrates of 1500. Is it my player?
tried Handbrake, it says win7 compatible, but won't work, followed guide off of other site, which specifies 1500 bitrate. Problem is I start app, get source, set up for legacy ipod, then make adjustments, start encoding, CLI pops up and a few seconds go by, then it says step 1 of 3 100%, the lower left still says encoding, but it's obvious that it's not due to cpu usage, then after another 20s or so I get a pop-up saying Handbrake has stopped working. I tried reinstalling it, but same results, also tried compatibility mode, but same results.
so, back to xilisoft, now trying to re-encode BD files, however had sync issues, and the picture was small, didn't fill up width, but at the time used 800x480. after reading some posts set to 848x464, and I get another warning saying size too big for screen, which is weird bcz I have another vid, from mkv source, which I set to 800x480, but came out as 853xsomething, and that plays fine. anybody encoding from blu-ray with good solution?
I may try the aforementioned yxflash, as it supposedly plays .avi's, that would be handy as I already have a ton of files in that format. I would really like to get the blu-ray conversion down though. I've googled for mp4 converters and tried several, but none that worked right. In some cases I found that I first had to run the file through tsmuxer to downgrade audio to either dts or ac3 first, as converters wouldn't read HD audio formats.
also tried xvid4psp, which I used to use for ipod, and it works great, but it won't read .m2ts files properly, which it's supposed to do, and I'm almost positive I've used in the past. It's almost like something is up with my computer, but everything seems to be working fine aside from these apps.
thanks for any suggestions,
rlr