Everone's Gone to the Movies

[Blairware]

I get inspired every once in a while to convert some full length movies, and put them on whatever phone I have at the time. I have had mixed success (mixed failures?) and would like to see what people are doing that actually works!

I grabbed a couple of Blockbuster on Demand Movies (The two free ones that are offerred to HD2 Owners, plus a couple I paid for. They were formatted horribly, sounds was just acceptable, and like others, I was hoping for the kind of product that the Transformer conversions were. No such luck. Blockbuster, being A MOVIE RETAILER, does not deem information such as "Screen Format" or "Sound Encoding" to be important enough to share with us. The 4 films I have viewed were "Widescreen Format" but, since 800x640 is not 16:9, you end up with two very noticable black bands top & bottom of the screen. Try showing off your HD2, only to have some wiseass 8 year old comment "How come it doesn't fill the screen?" t seems like the wiseass 8 year old has a better sense of what's right than the wizards at Blockbuster (Using "Roxio Cinema Now" technology)

Okay, so much for delivering content to the "Hardest working Screen in the Business" Who then has a tried and true method for converting Ripped DVDs into our beautiful media device? I don't have the patience to try this and that ripper, this and that converter, get the demos, look at 5 minutes of video, or have a huge watermark all while NOT getting a nice conversion to begin with. What I dream of is a 2-3 step process, not a 8-10 step process, that I have to lord over the whole time. I would GLADLY pay for a properly done ripper/converter so I could simply watch a movie on this device that was made to do just that.

 

[jgos929]

I also would like to know.

 

[whoiam06]

Have you thought of using TCPMP? (project is somewhere in this site) I just copy over movies (Xvid AVIs) and they play just fine.

 

[Camusa]

1clickDVDConverter

1ClickMovie

AnyDVD + Handbrake (Handbrake is free and excellent, but you need a proggy like Anydvd for...backing up your movies).

 

[alooohaboy]

This link is at the top of this forum as a sticky

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=666971

 

[danxtian]

DVD Fab platinum

this is the program that i use to put movies in my gadgets... I've put 10s movies in my htc hd2. try it, it has a very simple GUI, and the results is very nice too..

and just a little more detail, you can set up the resolutions output too so it will match the HD2 screen.

for the hd2, i converted my dvd to generic mp4.

 

[N1M1TZ]

this is the program that i use to put movies in my gadgets... I've put 10s movies in my htc hd2. try it, it has a very simple GUI, and the results is very nice too..

and just a little more detail, you can set up the resolutions output too so it will match the HD2 screen.

for the hd2, i converted my dvd to generic mp4.

Same here, using DVD Fab... It is FABulous to use.

 

[ericm115]

i just use handbreak. it works really well. im currently using a profile i made that is bassicaly the iphone/ipodtouch preset with the resolution set to 800x48 for hi def and whatever the size is on lower def videos. i also have custom anamorphic which is set at

xxx = width if source file or 800 whichever is greater
800
800

i also have keep aspect ratio off.

on a test of the start trek blu ray i was able to full my screen with the people looking normal and not cutting anything off anything.

i have it on average bit rate of 640 with 2 pas and turbo 1st pass. with audio at 128. the movies look really good to me. Just for comparison the transformers movies weren't all that great looking on my pc at all. they look grainy and for that they are not really utilizing all the bandwidth they are consuming.

with these setting i am very happy of the video quality on my HD2 and the audio is also very good. I also didnt like the blockbuster offering. at these settings it is about 350mb per hour and thats including audio.

To make it with my same exact setting all you need to do is select the iPhone/iPod touch presert, make the resolution say 800x480 or whatever the max is allowed, just dont pass 800 x 480. the anamorphic is set to custom with
800
800
800.

look at the screen shot.


Good luck

 

[Camusa]

Well as noted above, I had been using Handbrake, but my ripping mates have come up with a program that already had the HTC HD2 in mind.

A freeware coverter with an actual preset specific for the HTC HD2 and it works just fine my friends.

The proggy is called: Xmedia Recode 2.2.3.2

http://www.freewarefiles.com/downloads_counter.php?programid=47942

Choose HTC model.
Choose the HD2

Choose your video prefs.

Much love.