DVD disk and image transcoding for N800

Posted on July 17, 2007
Filed Under Maemo, N800, Software, Tips, video |

I needed to encode a movie, but the Media Converter didn’t seem to work with DVDs in Windows Vista.

After googling a while, I stumbled upon two programs that seem to do the job. For transcoding DVDs to N800 format (MPEG4 400×240) the open source solution MeWiG is adequate. The GUI crashes after a few minutes of encoding, but mencoder still runs in the background and gets the job done. The interface is quite intuitive, and it even scans the DVD for you to make for example cropping easier.

If you have an image of DVD already ripped in you hard-disk, HandBrake does the job very well. It seems to support multi-core processors, and it very easy to use. For some reason the DVD-transcoding doesn’t work with this program in Vista.

I’m not saying that Media Converter is a bad - it is a great program - but in Vista I couldn’t get it to use DVD as a source.

Comments

2 Responses to “DVD disk and image transcoding for N800”

  1. Mark Waters on July 17th, 2007 17:19

    Mencoder / MPlayer are great Open Source programs , I found a script works well for my N800 video encoding.

    You might want to take a look here for the script and an explanation :-

    http://opensource.weloveit.info/node/53

  2. Bert Harrison on January 29th, 2008 20:11

    I expect people will find a lot of things ‘don’t work in Vista’ especially when it comes to multimedia. I would suggest you read the following in that regard.. It is very enlightening as to what to expect to work and not work with Vista when it comes to multimedia.
    http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

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