And here’s the wrapup.
- Spring 2008 term has officially ended. For the past few days I’ve been trying to relax; as opposed to creating content for the Web, there’s been a lot of Halo 3 and other video games going on.
- I start again at RIM on September 2nd. Things haven’t changed much from when I was there last, which should make for a smooth transition.
- Hardware upgraded to a BlackBerry Bold as I’m a consumer whore with company loyalty. The screen is really sharp and the new processor gives a really responsive UI. The iPhone 3G was admittedly an attractive option but had two major buzzkills: no physical keyboard, and gimped push email. I had to trade my weaselled retentions plan in for something a bit more conventional, but I’ve now got a monthly plan encompassing some text messaging capabilities.
- Warren also purchased me an Invisible Shield for the device. I highly recommend this product. Resale value will be much higher and any new iPods will definitely get one of these.
- It’s move-in time for our neighbours, which means the landlord feels the need to test out his new bowling ball by dropping it down next door’s flight of stairs repeatedly. (In all reality, he’s probably using a hammer on something, but it sounds suspiciously like my initial description.) I’m hoping that this term, there’ll be some attractive girls in the same complex – but that’s probably a long shot.
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Jake:
You appear to be a smart person who has both Mac and Bold.
Tell me, how do I get video to to my Bold?
Let’s say that I’ve got some DVD content on my iMac turned into QT movies using Handbrake. But the Bold can only play the audio and not the video. If I use QT Pro to “export” to any other format, I can get both, but the compression is so terrible, it makes the video useless and un-watchable.
Any ideas?
(Both me and my wife now have Bold. We love them!)
I’d have thought HandBrake could take care of most conversion options and it’s probably what I’d suggest you stick with, if you can get the correct encoding profile. It may be something in the default XviD profile that the device is choking on. Anything like QPEL or “quarter pixel” would definitely be cause for failure, but I’ll have to poke someone about what exactly is supported with XviD.
Well, I’ve only been attempting to Bold the content I’ve already Handbraked previously. And for the purpose of OS X, what I’ve got runs fine in Front Row. But those same “movies” (mpeg-4, two track, H.264 & AAC) don’t play the H.264 track on the Bold, just the AAC.
Any attempt to cross convert using QT Pro, only compresses the originals (about 200 MB for a 20 minute tv show) to blocky pixellations that look terrible on the Bold, albeit with both video and audio.
I’m currently Mac the Ripper-ing some fresh content; from there I will attempt a Handbrake conversion from the DVD straight to something Bold friendly…I hope…
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