Skbo
03-10-2005, 10:05 AM
I’m hoping someone here has a little bit more insight than me concerning movies, compression and all that other good stuff.
First off, since I know it’s a safe bet that questions like mine can be answered by saying read this thread or that. I think I’ve done that. I’ve found a lot of really good information and learned a lot. In particular, these threads were the most help…
http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76362
http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75447&highlight=3gp+converter
http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78299&highlight=3gp
My first question, actually has been asked before in the vz90 forum, only I don’t believe it was ever answered. When I compress an mpeg 2 file with 3gp I get some pretty good results. Actually, really good results. Unfortunately, about 20 – 25 minutes into a movie, the video becomes choppy and then it eventually stops. The audio plays back fine. I have tried cutting back the max and average bitrates fearing my ux50 just couldn’t handle 768 and 512kbps bit rate. However, the problem still occurs at 384kbps as well. I have also searched the threads fearing I purchased a crappy memory stick, but everyone seems to like the Sansdisk 1gig MS Pro.
Is the problem that the VZ90 codecs just don’t work well on the UX50? Is the UX50 underpowered to play mpeg4s? Is it that 3gp just sucks? Has anyone successfully encoded a variable bit rate movie and was able to watch it to the end, if so which settings did you use?
My second question is actually an anticipation of some advice I might expect, which is to try Image Converter 2. I’ve had a lot of trouble with that program. I downloaded the Japanese version. Installed it to the point it stops. I unzipped the “installed” files from Imame and copied over the files that weren’t there. I then put the “lang” file in the right directory. The program runs, though I get an error with every type of video file I try to convert (the error occurs at the point of dragging the file over, not the conversion stage). The error is all ?????s so I have no idea what it is. I know my mpeg 2 codecs are installed because media player places my ripped dvds (after renaming).
Anyone have any ideas? Will getting IC2 working fix my freezing problem with mpeg4s?
Thanks a lot for taking the time to look at this. I really appreciate your help.
Dave
First off, since I know it’s a safe bet that questions like mine can be answered by saying read this thread or that. I think I’ve done that. I’ve found a lot of really good information and learned a lot. In particular, these threads were the most help…
http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76362
http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75447&highlight=3gp+converter
http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78299&highlight=3gp
My first question, actually has been asked before in the vz90 forum, only I don’t believe it was ever answered. When I compress an mpeg 2 file with 3gp I get some pretty good results. Actually, really good results. Unfortunately, about 20 – 25 minutes into a movie, the video becomes choppy and then it eventually stops. The audio plays back fine. I have tried cutting back the max and average bitrates fearing my ux50 just couldn’t handle 768 and 512kbps bit rate. However, the problem still occurs at 384kbps as well. I have also searched the threads fearing I purchased a crappy memory stick, but everyone seems to like the Sansdisk 1gig MS Pro.
Is the problem that the VZ90 codecs just don’t work well on the UX50? Is the UX50 underpowered to play mpeg4s? Is it that 3gp just sucks? Has anyone successfully encoded a variable bit rate movie and was able to watch it to the end, if so which settings did you use?
My second question is actually an anticipation of some advice I might expect, which is to try Image Converter 2. I’ve had a lot of trouble with that program. I downloaded the Japanese version. Installed it to the point it stops. I unzipped the “installed” files from Imame and copied over the files that weren’t there. I then put the “lang” file in the right directory. The program runs, though I get an error with every type of video file I try to convert (the error occurs at the point of dragging the file over, not the conversion stage). The error is all ?????s so I have no idea what it is. I know my mpeg 2 codecs are installed because media player places my ripped dvds (after renaming).
Anyone have any ideas? Will getting IC2 working fix my freezing problem with mpeg4s?
Thanks a lot for taking the time to look at this. I really appreciate your help.
Dave