Comments on: Android HTC Hero/Eris x264 (h.264) video encoding with HandBrake

By: bjbilbo

bjbilbo — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:00:33 +0000

i have an issue with getting my videos in 480 size the biggest it will let me adjust is 320 also gray pass encoding and 2 pass encoding it wont allow me to check and all my videos come out slow and squarely pixaletd im using handbrake 4.9 i believe

By: logicc87

logicc87 — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:15:21 +0000

Thank you.

By: Sam Morris

Sam Morris — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:16:51 +0000

The bitrate directly effects the quality of your video. The higher the bitrate value, the less the video will be compressed (resulting in higher quality video, but larger filesize). For example, the Blueray format maxes out at around 40,000kbps, which is responsible for it's amazing quality, but huge filesize. In comparison, a typical low quality video you'll find on YouTube may be around 400kbps.

By: logicc87

logicc87 — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:01:07 +0000

ok thank you, one silly question, how will it benefit me to increase the bitrate? meaning what good does it do to the video?

By: Sam Morris

Sam Morris — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:27:59 +0000

I don't have an Evo to test with although I might soon. The width of the video should be 640px wide, so the full resolution of the screen is used. As for the height, it should be adjusted proportionality. An HD frame scaled down to 640px wide will have a height of 360px, so I would use that as a starting point. In addition, the Evo has a more powerful CPU than the Hero or Eris and you could probably turn up the Average Bitrate from 384 to higher number (assuming you're not concerned with file sizes getting larger).

By: logicc87

logicc87 — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:48:49 +0000

Hi sam, do you happened to have these setting but for the EVO? i tried movies i encoded with for the Hero on the EVO and they worked fine, but i would like to know that correct setting for the pixels for the evo… 640 x 480? im not sure, If you know i would appreciated it.

By: Sam Morris

Sam Morris — Sat, 29 May 2010 20:44:32 +0000

Thanks for the comment Erik, glad to hear the settings worked for you.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:39:56 +0000

Thanks for all the info. I have an Eris and those settings work perfect. The only two things I changed were to keep the frame rate same as source and use mixed references.

By: dvd creator

dvd creator — Fri, 28 May 2010 08:32:34 +0000

Thanks for the writing this! I’m new at this game so am trying to catch up.

By: Logicc87

Logicc87 — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:15:26 +0000

yeah, i just tried the auto crop and it worked very good, thanks for your fast response.

By: Sam Morris

Sam Morris — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:08:08 +0000

Try both ways and see what you like better. It depends on each individual movie and your personal preference…

Many movies that are visually impressive (StarWars, Lord of The Rings, etc), will be at a 2.35:1 format. That means even if shown on a 16:9 screen, there will still be black bars.

Occasionally, I turn off the "keep aspect ratio" and intentionally skew my video (squishing it horizontally 10-20%). Otherwise, there will be such large bars that it's unwatchable on the small screen. The bars are meant to be there with a 2.35:1 format, but I find it too small to watch on the Hero's already small screen so I try to compensate for it.

By: Logicc87

Logicc87 — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:38:22 +0000

Hi morris, thank you for the tutorial one question the keeping the aspect ratio should it be checked or not?

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By: Sam Morris

Sam Morris — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:37:11 +0000

Hi Matt,
Many movies will end up being over 500MB with similar settings to what I have above, depending of the length of the film of course. Your Hero should be able to store files (any type, not just movies) up to 4GB in file size. Files above 4GB will not work due to the limitations of the FAT32 file system, which most phone's memory cards use.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:53:52 +0000

hi all thanks for the tips, I am just doing my first conversion and hope it works. Had a hell of a time getting a decent file size once converted as it seems my hero wont take a 500mb file or the converter I was using corrupted the file. Anywho thanks again as other peeps have said for taking the time.

By: smortv

smortv — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:36:04 +0000

Thanks for the tip Stephen, I'll have to check that out.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:12:03 +0000

This was SO helpful! Thank you for taking the time to mess with the settings and come up with something that works. My initial tests with this on the OSX side of things have worked perfectly. I’m actually syncing video created using this method through an itunes playlist using Salling Media Sync. Check it out if you want a seamless experience for your phone but don’t want to ditch iTunes.

By: Sam Morris

Sam Morris — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:23:05 +0000

I'll be giving that a try next time I'm converting a video.
Thanks for the tip

By: Just Vervaart

Just Vervaart — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:38:33 +0000

When encoding 16:9 content (ratio 1.81) to the Hero (ratio 1.5) an crop of 24 pixels left and 24 pixels right gives you a nice fullscreen video

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