DVD to Iphone Suggestions?

[neutrino773]

I'm curious to see what experience people have had using the various DVD>Iphone converters. I've used both the Videora and PQ software's but find them both to be painstaking slow and neither software will encode audio at a higher bit rate then 160kbps. Are the low audio bitrate's inherent to mp4 encoding or just the software developer's decision to keep the audio bitrate's low. I'd at least like to encode audio at 190kbps, but my biggest concern is speed in the overall encoding.

Thanks for your help and/ or suggestions..

[Baldrick]

Try DVDFab.

[Midzuki]

neutrino773 wrote:

I've used both the Videora and PQ software's but find them both to be painstaking slow and neither software will encode audio at a higher bit rate then 160kbps. Are the low audio bitrate's inherent to mp4 encoding or just the software developer's decision to keep the audio bitrate's low. I'd at least like to encode audio at 190kbps, but my biggest concern is speed in the overall encoding.

WinAmp can convert to LC-AAC @ max=320kbps.
neroaacenc is another option.

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[neutrino773]

Trying out DVDFab right now. Looks like the speed of encode isn't much faster and the audio bit rate max's out at 128kbps. Should I be expecting a 6+ hour conversion time with any of these software packages? I'm running a Athlon XP1800.

[Midzuki]

To compress into H264/WMV3/VC-1 is a slow task,
unless you do it on a very-fast quad core
I suggest that you extract the original audio stream,
uncompress it, and then reencode it @ a higher bitrate,
since your current all-in-one wonder doez not give you such choice.

[seinman]

The iPhone can't play back a video file if the audio is encoded any higher than 160k. That's likely why the software limits you to that bitrate. The details of the iPhone's video and audio bitrate limits are here: http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html