Video conversion problem

Hi. I have many movies on my PC which I intend to watch on my cell phone while commuting between home and college. The movies are mostly 720p and sized ~900 MB each. When I convert them to MP4 ( 320x240, 30fps, AAC for audio at 160 kbps and 41000 Hz sampling rate), the size of the converted movie becomes larger than the original movie :shocked: The converted file sizes ~1200 MB! What am I doing wrong and how should I rectify it?

I used Wondershare Video converter and Freemake.

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harshilsharma63 said:
Hi. I have many movies on my PC which I intend to watch on my cell phone while commuting between home and college. The movies are mostly 720p and sized ~900 MB each. When I convert them to MP4 ( 320x240, 30fps, AAC for audio at 160 kbps and 41000 Hz sampling rate), the size of the converted movie becomes larger than the original movie :shocked: The converted file sizes ~1200 MB! What am I doing wrong and how should I rectify it?

I used Wondershare Video converter and Freemake.

use format factory. and keep the aspect ratio the same.

mp4 is a container only .. you should use proper codec to reduce the size of the video.

^ sorry I didn't mention that. I used h.264. Which encoding should I use to get a small sized file at that resolution?

^ sorry I didn't mention that. I used h.264. Which encoding should I use to get a small sized file at that resolution?

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^^ h.264 is the current codec of choice for high compression but with decent quality.
Give a try for either XViD + AC3 or x264 + AC3 combination.
Also when you get time, give this video a look.

use format factory , avidemux , megui(if you can handle) and select video bitrate to 300kbps or less and audio to 128kbps as you will be using only 320x240 resolution

if your mobile can play h264 codec then its the best choice else use Xvid or Divx with AAC/mp3/AC3 audio codecs

I'll try Format Factory with h.264 and AAC.

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harshilsharma63 said:
I'll try Format Factory with h.264 and AAC.

format factory is the best video conversion tool i have used. Its really really fast.

harshilsharma63 said:
the size of the converted movie becomes larger than the original movie :shocked: The converted file sizes ~1200 MB! What am I doing wrong and how should I rectify it?

bcoz u have not lowered the video bitrate...

Thanks everyone. I used Format Factory, converted to MP4 with xVID encodinfg for video and AAC for audio. Lowered the video bit rate and the file size decreased to ~600 MB.

Format Factory user here and works for me 176x144 screensize one setting. just go with default settings and it should be fine.

Btw which cellphone?

set FPS:20 for 320x240 resolution...30fps is overkill for that...

Zangetsu said:
Btw which cellphone?

set FPS:20 for 320x240 resolution...30fps is overkill for that...

Okay, will keep that in mind. xVID did not played in the phone however. I'm using Nokia X2-00.

harshilsharma63 said:
Okay, will keep that in mind. xVID did not played in the phone however. I'm using Nokia X2-00.

hahaha....Xvid/DivX is not supported my dear frnd

try H.264 format or MP4... :-D

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mp4 is container & h264 is video codec.

converted to MP4 with xVID encodinfg for video and AAC for audio

use h264 for video & aac for audio in a mp4 container/file.