Video Screen Size Help!

[liamcalland]

I have only just upgraded to the latest Videora iPod Converter from 0.96 or whatever it was. I enjoyed usign this with no problems, but when I upgraded I began having problems with the speed of converting videos. However this problem has now resolved itself with 2.06 and can convert a 2 hour movie in 90 minutes using the MPEG codec like the old version of Videora.

The only problem which I can't figure out is this. With version 0.96 when I converted a video using the MPEG codec, the completed video filled the whole screen of my iPod. However with the new version using the same codec, the completed video does not fill the entire iPod screen, and have a black space at the top and bottom of the video (like it is in widescreen mode!)

Does anyone know why this is and how you can make the video fill the entire iPod screen as before?

[Sketch]

While I'm guessing this may have to do with the AutoResize function, I can't say anything for certain without a console log. Please post one per this forum's FAQ sticky thread.

[liamcalland]

How do I create oen of these logs?

Thanks!

[Sketch]

To generate a console log, please follow these steps.
1. Click on the "Console" tab and check the "Enable Console" box.
2. Start encoding the video that failed as you normally would.
3. Cancel the conversion after ~10 seconds by clicking the "Abort" button.
4. Go back to the "Console" tab
5. Copy the console log up until the lines where it starts saying "frame=..."


Why can't I just post this on it's own? Copy/pasting gives some weird "not enough characters" error.

[liamcalland]

This is the file you asked me to create.

Just so you know I have tried converting the movie with the video auto resize box ticked and unticked!

Hope you can help me now!

EXEC: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\mediainfobatch.bat "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\MediaInfo.exe" "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\parameters.txt" "C:\FLT0EUW1\VIDEO_TS\VTS_03_1.VOB"

PlayTime=01:00:00.480

Width=720

Height=576

AspectRatio=1.778

FrameRate=25.000

[Midiman]

AspectRatio=1.778

That aspect ratio IS widescreen. It's generally called 16:9 but the numbers are slightly off... I won't go into all that again here. There will be black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.

Also, your resolution is quite high IF your intention is to watch the file on the iPod. You're wasting huge amounts of space. You might try resizing to 320x180 (16:9) with a bitrate of 384k, audio at 112k. This produces very good quality video for all but the most tasking types of scenes. For those, you may want to go 768k... you can get a slight improvement in audio quality bumping it up to 128k. And at 720 pixels wide, you are encoding 4 times the picture information that your iPod is capable of displaying. For use exclusively on an iPod screen, anything over 320 pixels wide is a pure waste of space.

All your log showed us was the basic info on your source file. The complete log would have revealed much more about your choice of parameters and the resulting file.

[liamcalland]

Right that will explain everything then.

The reason it wasn't doing it on the old version of Videora is (coincidently) down to the fact that the movies were not in wide screen, and the movies I was converting using the newer version were in widescreen!

Typical that.

Thanks for your help, I will now get n with converting Borat!!!!!