N800 Video Conversion
April 19th, 2007 by matt.hughes
Today I finally have gotten my hands on the Nokia N800 and it surpasses my wildest expectations. This device ROCKS!
I’ll have more of a review soon but currently I’m just converting some video over to it. Quite a few people are having issues with converting media over so here’s a short tutorial on how it can be done.
DVD to N800
Now I use 2 pieces of software to get video from DVD to my Nokia N800. This is a dual method as I also encode the video to be played on a Video Ipod.
CloneDVD mobile - Link
CloneDVD mobile converts your movie DVD easy and quickly into a format your portable devices like Sony PSP, Apple iPod Video, iAudio X5, Creative Labs ZEN Vision etc. can show.
Media Converter - Link
This is what you need to convert from CloneDVD mobile to the Nokia N800 Format.
Ok so what I do is rip the DVD from the disk with CloneDVD mobile. I use the Video IPod 5th Generation ripping option and have found that it compresses most DVD’s to around the 400Mb mark.
After this is done, I open up Media Converter and set it to N800, select the file that was ripped with CloneDVD mobile and then let it create a new file for the N800.
Now for me this is a good method, the video looks and sounds fantastic. Even thought the IPod rip’s the video at 320×240 it seems that the Media Converter does a good job at up scaling when it re-rips the file for the N800. The video is fluid and looks great running at full screen.
Ok, so that’s how I encode my DVD’s to watch on the Nokia N800; expect to see a few more thoughts about this wonderful Internet Tablet shortly!
I just open the .VOB from the DVD directly in Media Converter. I know you use CloneDVD mobile for your iPod, but maybe you will get better quality encoding directly from the DVD for the N800. Then again, perhaps it saves time to encode from the 400Mb CloneDVD mobile output.
Another free option (on Windows) is SUPER from eRightSoft http://www.erightsoft.com/home.html. It has conversion profiles for iPod and other devices but no N800/770 as of yet. I just use the AVI (MP4 video, MP3 audio) option at 352×240 resolution.
For video I’m still testing what bit rate is best. Both in SUPER and Media Converter. I get audio de-synchronization sometimes but not all the time. I tested it at home and it was fine, but then at the gym it sometimes doesn’t work. Not sure what the problem is.
For audio I use 22Khz, 2 channel, 64Kbps. If the source is mono then I use 32Kbps.
Cheers mate, I’ll definatly check your method out! The way I’ve been doing it works flawlessly.
I do have 1 issue tho, when I try and rip from divx to N800 the sound is delayed in the rip.
Any ideas?