iphone movies

[zeropur]

A question.. I am getting my iphone in about 2 hours, and was just thinking of adapting a few of my DVD's to the iphone screen.

If I have let's say a 1gig movie in Avi... how much will it weight typically?

I know the screen is 480 X 320... so it MUSt lower the size of the movie to put it at that size.

I just wanted to know just how many movies I could get on an iphone.

So again, as I seem to have lost my way somewhat...

With a 1gig avi... what is the final size once changed to 480X320 pixels?

Thanks

Paul

[notabadname]

When I put movies onto my iPhone, via Handbrake and its "preset" compression option for the iPhone, they tend to be about 500 Mb per hour. My Matrix Reloaded, at 2:18 time, is 1.08 Gb, and Casino Royale is 1.05 Gb. The quality is excellent and I can't see a difference between it and the quality of purchased media off iTunes. iTunes files are basically the same size, maybe slighty larger for unit of time. 45 minute episodes of Firefly are 500 Mb off iTunes and 43 minute episodes of Lost are 470-500 Mb.

I typically store two, 2 hour movies and 8 - 14, 43 or 22 minute episodes of of Lost or South Park respectively (about 10 hours of video total). This is in addition to about 450 songs and 50 photos.

This is for the 8 Gb phone, obviously 20 hours would be easy to do on the new 16 Gb.

[flunkycarter]

Like Not A Bad Name said... a movie ripped using Handbrake at iPhone setting weighs in about 1 gig to 1.5 gig

If you have video files you want to convert (like XViD or DiVX files, etc...) you may want to check out iSquint or it's bigger brother, visualhub.

Basically you drop in your existing video file and select an output option, like h.264 encoding, etc... It also has presets for the iphone, touch, apple TV...

h.264 encoding produces great results, but takes time. if you want to convert vids for quicker viewing, don't select h.264 and it will make an mpeg encoded file... rougher quality, but 3 or 4 times as fast...

Using visualhub, i can take a 700MB XViD movie and re-encode it to the iPhone on the Go Nuts setting to about 1GB... so a 1GB might end up ballooning to 1.5 or 1.7GB... use the High quality setting to get somewhat the same file size you started off with. Again, a 2pass h.264 encoding will yield better results, but will take time.

If you really want to get spiffy, download telekinesis iphone remote, this will let you set up an iPhone remove server and you can stream your video content via your LAN or the Internet and view it on the iPhone... you could even connect your iPhone to your TV and stream movies that way.

As far as resizing for the iPod, i just let visualhub determine the best size... There is a setting called Optimize for All Devices (touch, ipod, iphone,etc...) and I _think_ it will reduce the size to about 420ish... Note that I've encoded files at 720x* and they still play fine on the iPod and iPod->Output to TV.

[zeropur]

Wow... I am so wrong about this then.

I just tried American Gangster 949MP in avi format.

I broke it down using 2 programs...

iphone video converter & Visualhub

iphone video converter put it at the correct pixels... and it weighs 1.42Gig
Visualhub puts it at 527MP


How can that be possible? That the file was 949MP in avi, and now almost DOUBLE in a much smaller screen setting in iphone converter?

Think I will be buying Visualhub very soon.

So, at 500MB per movie (more or less) I could easily put 4 movies, and still have space for my other stuff.

[baseballboy828]

You can always compress movies a little more if you want to fit more for some reason. Just use the quality slider in VisualHub.

[Yuiichi]

@zeropur - the only reason I can see for the increased size of the file coming out of iPhone Video Converter is the compression method used by that program. Meaning: it's not very good.

Visualhub is a fantastic application and if you're going to be converting videos frequently for your iPhone, a purchase is a great idea!

[zeropur]

Originally Posted by Yuiichi

@zeropur - the only reason I can see for the increased size of the file coming out of iPhone Video Converter is the compression method used by that program. Meaning: it's not very good.

Visualhub is a fantastic application and if you're going to be converting videos frequently for your iPhone, a purchase is a great idea!

YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!!

I am now typing this post using my new iPhone, sharing my MacBook's 3G Internet connection, and it's great!

The visualhub works great, worth every dime. I now have around 20 music videos, 3 DVD movies, and too many songs to mention.

Visualhub really IS the best app for formating videos to the iPhone.

And to anyone in a non iphone country... BITE THE BULLET AND GET ONE. I've been a hardcore blackberry user for a few years, and the iPhone is so much more.

[Yuiichi]

Glad that you're enjoying it so much

If only I could afford the service plans. And if only Apple would get their act together and stop neglecting us Canadians. Seriously, what's with that? We're so close to the US (and even have agreements like NAFTA) but we seem to get things later than a lot of European countries (take iTunes movies for example - we got them 6 or so months after the UK, IIRC).

BAH!

[zeropur]

Originally Posted by Yuiichi

Glad that you're enjoying it so much

If only I could afford the service plans. And if only Apple would get their act together and stop neglecting us Canadians. Seriously, what's with that? We're so close to the US (and even have agreements like NAFTA) but we seem to get things later than a lot of European countries (take iTunes movies for example - we got them 6 or so months after the UK, IIRC).

BAH!

At least you GOT the itunes movies... here in LAtin America, you can't even open an account.

In regard to the iphone... forget at&t.... jailbrake the damn thing. IT's so easy. I remember when I had the mouse over start... I was sweating thinking "If this doesn't work then I am going to die"... it was so simple!

I am so so so so happy!

** Oh, and if anyone needs an at&t card, I got one in the iphone when I bought it... it isn't going to do me much, so shout if you need one.

[Yuiichi]

Originally Posted by zeropur

At least you GOT the itunes movies... here in LAtin America, you can't even open an account.

That's very true. Maybe I'm just being a selfish Canadian, but it hurts when I know that I could just live 30 more minutes south and get a whole ton more content on iTunes. I buy all of my music on iTunes (I really don't care about the DRM) and it really sucks when I can't buy an indie artists music because it doesn't exist on the Canadian store.

The only problem with me jailbreaking an iPhone would be the cost of service plans. In Canada, data plans are notoriously expensive for very little bandwidth. 10MB costs around $20 per month. And if I have the real internet in my pocket, that would cost a fortune. That's why I really have to wait till Apple releases the iPhone officially and they have their deal plans.