it makes no sense to have a larger file than the original,although it happens,because you will never improve the original file quality.taking an avi or mpeg and converting to any other codec or file will only degrade it and even with avisynth and scripts and filters your really never going to improve the original file without professional equipment.quantizers are fine,and easier than dealing with bitrates yourself, but will still boil down to bitrates.also considering these videos are for phones the bit rate range i said,at single pass would be fine.all 2 pass will do is create a variable bit rate through out the movie,higher bitrates for actions scenes and lower for less moving scene,which is fine for the tv,but takes alot longer as you are essentially encoding it twice,a ghost encode for information for the real encode,and again its only a phone,so i wouldnt bother with a 2 pass
smkranz ,
i didnt realize the original avi you had came off another portable device,explaining its original size,sorry bout that
and yeah,you can make about anything look good on a 3" screen,i have one at 480x320 768bps and it looks hd,,standard size for tv is 720x480 although with avis that changes radically,562x352,things like that,those still look great on tv,even 62" screen,so when you take 480x 320,which you could easily watch on tv and smack it on a small screen,its goin to look pretty good
also on my last post when i said lower bit rate will make a smaller file,i forgot to add that it will also reduce the movies quality,perhaps dramatically
Message Edited by redninja on 08-05-2009 08:45 PM
Message Edited by redninja on 08-05-2009 08:46 PM
