[muhammadusman]

Hi all. I wanted to know of some way that I can transfer video files from PC to my device at native 640*360 resolution. I have transferred a few videos to my device from my PC using the in-box microUSB cable. These videos have to be stretched in the real player settings menu to enable them to play on the full screen of my device with no black bars above or below. Also the quality of these videos is somewhat lower as compared to the built-in batman video clip which has a resolution of 640*360. All my videos are in mpeg4 format, the same as the batman clip format. The problem is how can I convert my clips to resolution of 640*360 ???

[el_loco]

Depends on the resolution of the content you need to crop in the vertical or horizontal.

Some encoders allow you to strech the video. 

For some tips you may want to read this post about anamorphic conversion. While this was written for 4:3 screens the same principle applies for a 16:9 screen (640x360)

Keep in mind some movies are 2.35 while some videos have black bars as part of the stream so you would need to crop them otherwise they will be displayed also in the phone.

WIdescreen

[keyboardman]

you could try something called best video converter, it allow u to set the video to 16:9 screen (640x360)... easy-to-use.

[zebarnabe · Accepted solution]

There are many ways of doing it, I think the easiest way is to use Super Video Converter. It's a free application build by eRightSoft.

On the free side you also have HandBrake. I consider HandBrake output better than Super Video Converter with free DivX MPEG4 encoder, but the problem HandBrake bugs, some video-audio codec combinations make it crash very easily.

The settings you need to get a video to run on your 5800 at an acceptable quality are:

Container: MP4
Video Codec: mpeg-4
Audio Codec: AAC LC

Video Scale Size: 640×360 (please be advised that some encoders require 640x368 instead... works fine as well)

Video Aspect: 16:9
Video Frame/Sec: 25

Video Bitrate: 800 to 1500 (you can go higher, but you may have hiccups and a very big file size)

Audio Sampling Frequency: 44100
Audio Channels: 2
Audio Bitrate: 96-192 (you can go higher but i don't recommend it... 128 is quite good)

Audio-Video Sincronization issues may arrise, if possible check any 48k audio codec box you see on your chosen application.

Please note that 5800xm also supports H.264/AVC video encoding on MP4 files... ...But this really eats battery and at 640x360 you may get hiccups even at low bitrates (recommended bitrates for same quality are around half of mpeg4 ones)... on the positive side, files will take much less space (around half), this might be good for music video clips, where you can reduce resolution, giving priority to audio and allowing one to have more free space.

HandBrake got a new update, i'll play with it for a while... if i don't get crashes and/or video quality comes awesome i shall say it later...

Alternatives to this are RealVideo 7,8,9/10, WMV 9 and .FLV (Flash video) files.... i don't have any experience in this type of file encoding for mobile devices so i'll refrain from saying more...

Hope it helps...

[zebarnabe]

I've already tested handbrake... i successfully encoded Elephants Dream from:

AVI 1080p at 24fps with 5.1 channel AC3 48kHz

to:

MP4 640x360 at 25fps at 1200kbps with a 2-pass encoding with ACC stereo 48kHz 16bits audio

File size is 106Mb and video has 10m53s ...

Running on 5800xm showed no hiccups nor out of sync sections (not even in the fastest action scenes!)... quality was gorgeous >_> ... *jawdrop*

Be advised that videos with other codecs as source might give you problems... but DVDs should be easily encoded ^__^

[el_loco]

Interesting, do you get money for promoting those software packages?

[myster1982]

Hi

I want to share a new program - VideoCharge Studio. This software can convert video for all popular video formats, and has very vary good Wizard - use it you can very simple convert video to need resolutions and formats!

Very recommend

[efroz]

 "zebarnabe"

try freez 3gp converter it is easy to use and give best hd quality  video  for 5800xm and any phones with faster converting speed without loading ur pc like handbrake and others converter just setting the convertor with following

(video setting)

video codec : MPEG4

resolution: 352x288

width: 640,height : 360

video quality :high or best

framerate : depend on your video/movie framerate 

zoom mode: stretch

(audio settings)

audio codec : aac-lc

audio bitrate : 48kbps

audio freq :48000hz (depend on your video )

channel: stereo