How to watch a movie on your INSTINCT.

Any 1 converted .vob files into .mp4? I am currently using the full version of WinXmedia to convert my movies into mp4 files. It is working but the files are to big once shrunk down (out of a 4 gig movie it shrunk down to 800megs).
So i am asking if any one has done this and knows what thing i could turn down to make the file smaller?

Frame Rate: 24   
Video Bitrate: 1150kbps
Volumes: unlimited
Audio Bitrate: 256kps
Audio Sample Rate: 44khz
Audio: Stereo
Resolution: 432 x 240 (Full screen on instinct)

Ok made some adjustments and lose a little bit of quality. Shrunk a 4 gig .vob file down to little under 400mb. Here are the settings I used.............

Frame Rate: 24   
Video Bitrate: 512kbps
Volumes: unlimited
Audio Bitrate: 128kps
Audio Sample Rate: 32khz
Audio: Stereo
Resolution: 432 x 240 (Full screen on instinct)

I will be playing around with settings to get it the best for me. Sound is still great listening through headphones internal speaker is not good enough to listen too. Just fuzzier with the changes I made and voices still match their mouths.

Now, another reason i don't use Sprint Media Player to transfer movies is because no matter if i have the movie encoded already, it encodes it again!...So plug your INSTINCT in USB port and open the SD card folder in MY COMPUTER "icon" or if it pops up drag your encoded movies to the MEDIA folder. If you don't have a media folder, create one and put movies in there...The computer will copy all files you dragged to card. Now the bummer part...The USB is USB 1 so pretty slow,  but beats waiting hrs for your movie to be encoded in Sprint Media Manger.[/color

It's best to use a sd card adapter to copy movies to the media folder. The transfer is much faster. Also, you don't have to worry about missing incomming calls.

I was able to make video work that was encoded in linux using ffmpeg.
for 4:3 content "ffmpeg -i inputvideo.avi -vcodec libxvid -s 320x240 -acodec libfaac -y moviename.mp4"
and for 16:9 just change 320 to 432. 
to do 2.35 movies you will have to add black bars to top and bottom

I managed to convert my DVD copy of Transformers to MP4 and loaded it onto my 8GB MicroSD card.

I used MobiDVD which is a free program http://mobidvd.xulsoft.org/download.htm

I'm no expert at this stuff and I'm sure someone will come up with a more elegant and faster way of doing this... I will warn you though - the conversion is pretty darn slow. 

I chose the following settings:
iPod video
video resolution: 640x360
video bitrate: 800 kbps (it seems most everyone is using 1000 kbps but I think I tried this on an earlier attempt and the video quality was a little jumpy).  I could be talking out of my @$$ though...
Audio quality: Normal

Output format: I think I put 3gp for this but the file is listed as an mp4 file??
Video quality: Normal
Audio quality: normal
resolution: 352 x 288
frame rate: 15 fps

The video is relatively smooth, but you can notice *very* subtle jumping every now and then.
I used the above video settings cause they seemed to just "fill" the screen a little better than 320x240.

Anyway, I'm pretty happy with the results so far. No obvious audio delay or misregistration yet.
And did I mention that the program is free?!?!  Gotta love that!

Best,
Chris

I am using Vista and it keeps cratching. Movidvd

For those of you wanting a FREE means of converting your Audio and/or Video files who're running Windows, I ran across a site a couple of years ago which is a great index to a lot of free software available. The author of the site goes to great detail in letting you know about each of the products in that particular category, their strengths and weaknesses, as well as their appropriateness to different levels of user experience levels. Anyway, the URL where he reviews the Best Free Audio / Video Format Conversion Program is:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-audio-video-format-conversion-program.htm

From that list of products he reviews 3 different products (at the moment):

• Super (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer)
• MediaCoder
• Any Video Converter

His sight is done in the form of a wiki so you can contribute comments with any personal experience you might have had with one of those particular products or suggest another and they will review it also.

I use that, and I personally think it is awesome. Someone here posted a thread on how to do it with videora. Use the search button.