Re: [UAUG] formating videos for iPhone and TV

[Jared Ottley]

I had the same issue.  I have used Handbrake for a while to rip  
things, and one of the presets is for iPhone/iPod. I didn't understand  
the double conversion. I found a easy solution: have Handbrake update  
the built in presets.  When I was ugrading Handbrake it never updated  
the presets. Now I am happy.  No more double conversions/double copies.

Jared

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 1, 2008, at 7:17 AM, "Caleb Call" <caleb at macjunk.net> wrote:

> I've recently come across this same thing.  It really pissed me off  
> for the
> same reason, I don't want/need two copies of every movie, not to  
> mention it
> screws up the syncing of my Apple TV (again, unless I want two  
> copies of
> every movie on my Apple TV).  I've read that if you can inject the  
> iPod atom
> that it will work, but I don;t completely believe that since I  
> recently
> ripped a few DVDs and injected this atom and they still don't work.   
> If you
> come across anything let us know.  I'm also searching for the  
> quickest way
> to convert all of my already ripped files, most methods seem to take  
> as long
> (or longer) than the original rip.  Visualhub so far is my choice  
> because I
> can script it...but still.
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Wade Preston Shearer <lists at wadeshearer.com
>> wrote:
>
>> I just tried syncing some videos to my iPhone and received an error  
>> that
>> they were not in the correct format. I knew that they were (.m4v)  
>> so I was
>> puzzled. What didn't iTunes like about them. So, I right-clicked  
>> and had it
>> format them for iPhone to see what difference would be between the  
>> file it
>> produced and the one I already had. The difference? Dimensions. It  
>> sized it
>> down a little. This is frustrating. I have my videos large (high  
>> resolution)
>> so that they play beautifully on my TV. I don't want to have to h 
>> ave two
>> copies of every video, one large and one small. My hard drive is  
>> already
>> full. I wish that iTunes could just size it down as it transfers it  
>> to the
>> mobile device. It does this with music and phones. Why can't it do  
>> it with
>> videos? I am sure the answer is no, but no one knows a way around  
>> this, do
>> they?
>>
>>
>> wade
>>
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