Converting DVD's for Phone

[Mamong]

I have a new nokia n95 that I want to put some videos on.

 

 

 

I have DVD's that I've ripped and I now have the .vob files.

 

 

 

What do I need to do to convert them so they will play on my phone and what will I need to do to get them to the smallest file size possible so they can fit on my phones 1gb MicroSD?

 

 

 

Post what software I'll need etc.

 

 

 

Thanks :)

[MageUK]

Use AutoGK to convert the VOB files into something workable like DivX or XviD AVI files. Read a tutorial on videohelp.com or similar to find out how to do that.

 

 

 

Once you've done that, there's a lot of programs can be used for the final conversion (FFMPEG, Mencoder, etc.) but the easiest is probably SUPER as it incorporates all of these and uses the one that's required, it's also very powerful because of this. You can get SUPER here. SUPER's website is absolutely horrific so you'll need to work to find the download links heh, but it is a powerful application.

 

 

 

Once you have the AVI files drag and drop them into SUPER to add them to the queue. I've found the best settings for my N95 8GB are the following :

 

Output Container - MP4

 

Output Video Codec - H.264/AVC

 

Output Audio Codec - AAC LC

 

 

 

Video

 

Video Scale Size - 320:240

 

Aspect - 4:3

 

Frame/Sec - 25

 

Bitrate kbps - 384

 

 

 

Audio

 

Sampling Freq - 44100

 

Channels - 2

 

Bitrate kbps - 128 (or 192, but you're looking for lower size so do 128)

 

 

 

Once you've done that hit "Encode (Active Files)" and it will begin work to encode them.

 

 

 

When it's done you'll have a .mp4 file sitting in C:\Program Files\eRightSoft\SUPER\OutPut. It should be the entire film in a natively compatible format for your phone and should be 250-350MB depending on original film length.

 

 

 

Hope this works for you.

[sloter]

I use 3GP Converter to covert stuff to mp4 for my ipod and psp it works pretty well.