Best Container for Video?

Hello all.
My favorite show in the entire world is ” The OC ”
I’m going away in the summer for a month, and I’m taking my new BlackBerry Playbook with me. Its got 16GB of space available.
(I know, I should have waited and got the 64GB for the same price but I thought that at $250 it was a steal for 16GB)
Anyways, theres like 92 episodes of the show, each at 350MB a piece.
They’re encoded in an AVI format.
According to RIM, PlayBook supports these formats…


The Episodes of the show feature these attributes. Please note that some Episodes have the first set of attributes, while others have the second.
Frame Width – 640 OR 512
Frame Height – 368 OR 384
Date Rate – 985Kbps OR 1032Kbps
Total Bitrate – 1113Kbps OR 1165Kbps
Frame Rate – 23 Frames / Second OR 25 Frames / Second
Bit Rate (Audio) 128Kbps OR 132 Kbps
Channels – 2 Stereo
Audio Sample Rate – 48 kHz
Note that the PlayBook screen size is 1024 x 600
640 x 368 = 1024 x 588
512 x 384 = 800 x 600
I’m figuring that the 640 x 368 videos will play the best, while the 512 x 384 will have significant bars on the ends.
I’m trying to do this now rather than later, while I have the time and resources available.
Its impossible to fit all 92 eps. on the 16GB PlayBook, it takes up about 7.2 DVD’s, x 4.7GB = 34 GB.
With the given information above, and the formats that PlayBook supports, what container do you recommend I convert the files to? (To fit as many eps as possible on the device.)
Also, what application should I use? Should I upconvert the video to match the sizes above (1024×588 and 800×600) or should I just leave it the same, and let PlayBook enlarge it?
The same goes for settings, what values should I put for the settings when converting the container?
Thanks in advance, help is greatly appreciated.
Answer #1
Have you got a BB phone – you could use a 32GB micro SD card in that for storage and bridge it, although it would probably eat the battery.
Answer #2
^ I do have a BB, and I considered that option aha but 32GB in a Micro SD would cost a good 80 bucks lol, and yeah it would eat the battery, which I would kinda need lol
Answer #3
Man I also really loved “the oc” when it came on channel 4 every Sunday.
The good old days
Edit: can u reupload those pics on lulzimg
http://lulzimg.com/
Answer #4
Sure… Here you go



Answer #5
Freemake video convertor
http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/
My advice is convert a video file to mp4 and 3gp
Then copy both mp4 and 3gp files to ur blackberry. Then play both files and check quality and from there u know Wat to do
Edit
watch this video tutorial by freemake. If u need more help
http://www.freemake.com/how_to/how_to_convert_video_to_fit_your_device_model
Answer #6
Some advice from a friend told me to take the Xvid thats in the AVI and put it into H.264 , and keep the MP3 audio track thats in there the same
Xvid –> H.264 (same resolution)
MP3 –> MP3 (same thing, no convert)
Final –> .MP4
I’ll try that out, and the one above, and see how it works.
Thanks
SUCCESS!
The settings I used above with about half the bitrate, made it half the size lol and it turned out to be 200 MB … Fantastic.
I’m joyous.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Answer #7
JailbreakMe so everything worked out?
What file did u end up using?