Video size for Ipad 3

[Squid_uk]

Hey guys!

I just managed to get my hands on a shiny new iPad 3 64gb and would like to put some of the movies stored on my laptop on the iPad to watch when I go on holiday on monday.
I have about 20 movies I would like to put on the iPad, most of them in .mkv format with 720p resolution.

The issue I am having is I would like the final video to be near to full screen on the iPad as possible but without taking up to much space. I have about 45gb to play with. What settings would you guys recommend?

The reason I ask is because the presets within the program have large outputs and I cannot fit all the films on the pad.

[edDV]

IPad (new version) tech specs for video

Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 1080p, 30 frames per second, High Profile level 4.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

The iPad screen is 4:3 so expect extreme letterbox.

Handbrake is a good tool to convert to IPad2 1024x768 standard. They may have added an iPad new preset but file size will be much larger for 2048x1536.

[aedipuss]

xmediarecode has a ipad3 preset for 1080p 2500kbps i might try.

video support only goes to 1080p30 on the ipad3 even though the screen pixel size is much larger.

[Squid_uk]

Im giving xmedia a try.

I just didnt know if there were any setting I could alter that you recommend

[hello_hello]

I have about 20 movies I would like to put on the iPad, most of them in .mkv format with 720p resolution.

The issue I am having is I would like the final video to be near to full screen on the iPad as possible but without taking up to much space. I have about 45gb to play with. What settings would you guys recommend?

The reason I ask is because the presets within the program have large outputs and I cannot fit all the films on the pad.

Personally I'm not sure I'd be concerned about fitting every single video on the ipad if the alternative is to convert them, when chances are you can play them as-is (almost). Do you really need to put all the movies on it at the same time?

Given most of the video is already in MKV format you should be able to remux them as MP4s without converting the video. As long as the AVC level used when they were originally encoding is 4.1 or lower you should be fine (you can check with MediaInfo but most movie encodes would be fine). Depending on the type of audio you may have to convert it as the ipad seems to only support stereo AAC. Off the top of my head, ffcoder is one program which should easily allow you to copy the existing video while converting the audio only and saving the output as MP4. AnyVideoConverter should do the same.

Whether the existing video is 1080p or 720p etc you can only loose quality by converting it again and I'd assume the video player can resize it to fullscreen on playback regardless of the original resolution. You may see black bars top and bottom but if the player has a zoom function you could just zoom in until the video fills most of the screen, if that's what you're after.