Please help cure a case of encoding tired-head

[drhump]

peoples -

looking for a recommendation here. i've done a fair amount of searching and reading, and frankly, my head hurts.

essentially, i am looking to back-up my dvd collection for playback on my TiVos, as well as on some other devices. particularly my kids' dvds before their carelessness renders them useless.

i would prefer to do the ripping and encoding using my mac and handbrake, though i will store them on a windows box that has TiVo Desktop Plus. i have two S3's and an S2 (toshiba sd-h400). the TiVos are where the bulk of the playback will occur, though i will also occasionally want to play the files on my macbook, nokia internet tablet (n800/n810), and a nokia n95-3. i suppose i might even very infrequently play them on the windows box where they will reside. file size is not necessarily an issue, though i'd like to be practical.

i'm thinking a divx compatible format is the way to go, but i have no idea what settings to use to maximize the resolution:filesize performance.

any suggestions?

thx,
dave

[HostV]

Are you looking to back up it on your web site or on the web?

[classicsat]

Personally, I'd keep them MPEG2. Therefore no conversion what is required for the greater instances of playback; the TiVo, and only convert the few times for the portable devices as needed.

[mwp]

Originally Posted by drhump

peoples -

looking for a recommendation here. i've done a fair amount of searching and reading, and frankly, my head hurts.

essentially, i am looking to back-up my dvd collection for playback on my TiVos, as well as on some other devices. particularly my kids' dvds before their carelessness renders them useless.

i would prefer to do the ripping and encoding using my mac and handbrake, though i will store them on a windows box that has TiVo Desktop Plus. i have two S3's and an S2 (toshiba sd-h400). the TiVos are where the bulk of the playback will occur, though i will also occasionally want to play the files on my macbook, nokia internet tablet (n800/n810), and a nokia n95-3. i suppose i might even very infrequently play them on the windows box where they will reside. file size is not necessarily an issue, though i'd like to be practical.

i'm thinking a divx compatible format is the way to go, but i have no idea what settings to use to maximize the resolution:filesize performance.

any suggestions?

thx,
dave

I know im bumping an old thread, but here goes..

I also have an n95-3 and N82 ..

I have not tried to transfer tivo recording to the phone yet.

Do you have to convert the files? If so are you using super? What settings did you settle on?

[steve614]

Yes, you'll have to convert the files.
Have you checked Nokia's website for any software?
I would think they have some sort of program that interacts with the devices from a computer.
I know Samsung does.

[Yoav]

I would definitely use H.264 instead of DivX.

Other than that, it's entirely up to you. If you have 'unlimited' backup space, I'd just use the AppleTV setting from handbrake and keep what you get. But use 2-pass encoding.

Then look at what you have, and see if that's 'good enough' for what you want.

The only downside is that (right now?) Tivos can't play back mp4 files yet, so you'd need to use a tool like pytivo to stream the movie to your tivo instead.