insomniac8400

Using windows media encoder and instead of using the pocket pc codec, choose streaming media and then 148K. I encoded supertroopers from an 648mb avi to a 100mb wmv. Originally it was widescreen but it formatted it 4:3 and now it takes up the full screen which is a plus. That means its a little distorted, but nothing too bad and yes its somewhat pixelated, but for only being 100mb for a full movie its damn good. Plus I would have to imagine that a smaller file is going to equal more battery life. And having 9 full movies on my memory card is a lot more appealing than only 1. Of course this is only going to make you happy if you want quantity over quality.

Gigi

Moved to Multimedia.

jdh1415

Originally Posted by insomniac8400

Using windows media encoder and instead of using the pocket pc codec, choose streaming media and then 148K. I encoded supertroopers from an 648mb avi to a 100mb wmv. Originally it was widescreen but it formatted it 4:3 and now it takes up the full screen which is a plus. That means its a little distorted, but nothing too bad and yes its somewhat pixelated, but for only being 100mb for a full movie its damn good. Plus I would have to imagine that a smaller file is going to equal more battery life. And having 9 full movies on my memory card is a lot more appealing than only 1. Of course this is only going to make you happy if you want quantity over quality.

thanks for the info i will have to try this out for myself. as of now. Ill let you know my relsults

jpmarth

I used windows media encoder for a while. Then I learned how to encode to divx format, which provides better quality for the same size.

You might like the results from the program FairUse Wizard. Give it a try. Very easy to use and good quality video.

insomniac8400

I am reecoding avi to wmv, it would seem fairuse is for ripping movies from dvds and making them xvid.

jpmarth

If you are encoding directly from an avi file you could use PocketDivxEncoder.

Though you would need to use either Beta Player or Pocket MVP to play the movies.

I no longer use Windows Media Player as I prefer the quality of divx encoded avi movies.

jdh1415

I just encoded american pie 2 and it is 100 megabytes but it degrades sound quality a ton and and picture some, ill stick to the original 177 mb file that i thought was pretty good quality, thanks though!! JDH

insomniac8400

I used it and lowered the video quality down to "0" in order for he final product to hit 100mb, but the file was corrupt or something. If I tried to even view the directory with the video in it, it froze up. I had to delete the video through command prompt just to get rid of it.

insomniac8400

Tried it without selecting xvid and it worked. I upped the quality setting a little and got a file of 110mb. The file when compared to wmv showed almost no difference. It definitely was quicker converting with PocketDivxEncoder.