I've had a lot of success with MediaConverter as mentioned previously as well as handbrake On 7/3/07, Eric Cooper <ecc at cmu.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:45:54PM -0400, das manga wrote: > > what is the best way to convert video to a 800, > > I use mencoder on my Linux desktop. This works well for lower quality > files: > > size="-vf scale=240:144" > audio="-oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=medium" > video="-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=600" > mencoder -o file-n800.avi $size $audio $video file.avi > > And I used this to transcode a DVD for viewing on the N800: > > size="-vf scale=400:240" > audio="-oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=standard" > video="-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=600" > > mencoder -o movie.avi $size $audio $video dvd://1 > > Hope this helps. > > -- > Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -- Jonathan Greene +1.914.750.8740 AIM / iChat - atmasphere gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene at gmail.com Skype / Gizmo - JonathanGreene blogs - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp / http://www.maemoapps.com