Filed under: Utilities, Video, Windows, Freeware
RockPod optimizes videos for your iPod, PDA, PSP or Zune
by Brad Linder Mar 23rd 2008 at 11:00AM
First of all, RockPod features profiles for common mobile devices like iPods, PDAs, Zunes, PSPs, iPhones, and the Eee PC. The last one's a bit silly since the Eee PC is basically a small computer which can handle any video, but all of these settings are kind of arbitrary. Essentially the RockPod developers picked video resolutions and codecs that they thought would work well on each device.
Second, instead of wading through a series of menus to choose the frame rate, bit rate, and other settings, RockPod lets you pick a file size. That's it. Want the finished video to be 64MB or 768MB? Just choose your preferred file size from the drop down menu and RockPod will do the rest. Obviously the larger your file, the higher quality the audio and video will be. But if your goal is to fit as many videos as possible on a small memory card, by all means, try to squeeze Fellowship of the Ring onto a 64MB memory card.
If you like to have a bit more control over your video settings, we'd recommend checking out another encoder like PocketDivXEncoder, MediaCoder, Super, or VirtualDub. But for ease of use, it's hard to beat RockPod.
[via Eee PC.Net]
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Bannana said 8:47PM on 3-23-2008
I have a Creative Zen Vision that I would like something like this for.
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RockPod said 8:20AM on 3-24-2008
I'll take a look and see what I can do...
Jon Rick said 8:20AM on 3-24-2008
I downloaded it with high hopes, but after it hosed a widescreen video by converting it to a stretched full screen. I uninstalled do to the lack of settings.
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RockPod said 8:20AM on 3-24-2008
What file format were you creating? Was it AVI?
Jon Rick said 8:20AM on 3-24-2008
Yeah, it was an AVI.
RockPod said 8:20AM on 3-24-2008
what profile did you use and what was the reso of your original video. Does your device player allow you to change the aspect ratio?
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風俗 said 8:23AM on 3-24-2008
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風俗
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tank said 6:05PM on 3-24-2008
didn't work for me. selected the 700ish mb file size for a iphone convert, went to 100% done the second i clicked convert and nothing happened.
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