Ipod Video Question...

[britmaveric]

For all those who own an Ipod Video - how large are the movie files when you convert say a 2hr movie to watch on your ipod?

Avg movie converted from DVD is around 3gb, assuming due to the smaller size - must be significantly less. :usnure:

[MaiPenLai]

mp4 is usually 350MB per hour of video, roughly speaking and depending on quality of course. I am watching this right now:

Release Title Get Smart 2008 DVDRip H264-KingBen (Kingdom-Release)

Release Date 22 August 2008 (UK)

Release Length 1:50:10

Storyline Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 for CONTROL, battles the forces of KAOS with the more-competent Agent 99 at his side.

Cast

Steve Carell ... Maxwell Smart

Anne Hathaway ... Agent 99

Dwayne Johnson ... Agent 23

Alan Arkin ... The Chief

Terence Stamp ... Siegfried

Terry Crews ... Agent 91

David Koechner ... Larabee

James Caan ... The President

Bill Murray ... Agent 13

Patrick Warburton ... Hymie

Masi Oka ... Bruce

Kate Torrence ... Lloyd

Ken Davitian ... Shtarker

David S. Lee ... Ladislas Krstic

Dalip Singh ... Dalip

Genre Action | Comedy | Thriller

Language English

Original Source Get Smart DVDR-ALLiANCE

Total Size 734,857,715 Bytes

Video Specs

Container: MP4 (.MP4) file

Video Codec Type: avc1

Video Codec name: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

Bitrate: 760 KBS

Encoding: 3 Pass

Resolution: 720 x 400

Quality Factor (QF): 0.110

Frame Rate: 23.976 fps

Display Aspect Ratio: 1.800

Subtitles: English,portugues,Espanol,

Audio Specs

Audio Codec: mp4a: MPEG-4 AAC LC

Bitrate: 129 KBS

Sample Rate: 48000Hz

Channel Count: 2

edited to add information.

Edited October 12, 2008 by MaiPenLai

[britmaveric]

Cheers for the info.. smaller than I thought.

[dave_boo]

Cheers for the info.. smaller than I thought.

Just out of curiosity, what are you using to convert your dvd's? If you're not using Handbrake (downloadable here), you're doing yourself a disfavour, even though it has a French domain .

I'd recommend using the following CLI (I'm a Linux fan, forgive me!) options; they won't break Quicktime and they're extremely good looking results:

 ref=3:mixed-refs=1:bframes=3:b-rdo=1:bime=1:weightb=1:subme=6:trellis=1:analyse=all:8x8dct=1:vbv-maxrate=25000

You can also change the built in preset for the iphone settings using the above recommend changes.

[britmaveric]

Considering the itouch and hadn't bought it yet, just wanted to know how many movies might be realistic on one of these. DVD Cloner has ipod software that converts movies to the ipod. However if freebie version works easy enough I'll give it a go.

[dave_boo]

Considering the itouch and hadn't bought it yet, just wanted to know how many movies might be realistic on one of these. DVD Cloner has ipod software that converts movies to the ipod. However if freebie version works easy enough I'll give it a go.

It works extremely easily. Also, it has had multi-threading optimised, so that if you're rocking more than one core on your CPU you'll see significant performance gains.

[anotheruser]

You can't beat visualhub or handbrake if you use a Mac. A typical video is about 700 MB. OH forgot to say the free version of visualhub is isquint.

Edited October 13, 2008 by anotheruser