Comments on: How to use HandBrake to optimize video for your phone http://blog.kinoma.com/2009/12/how-to-use-handbrake-to-optimize-video-for-your-phone/ Home of Kinoma Play and the Kinoma apps platform Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:55:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: CharlesW http://blog.kinoma.com/2009/12/how-to-use-handbrake-to-optimize-video-for-your-phone/#comment-147 CharlesW Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:12:28 +0000 http://blog.kinoma.com/?p=3447#comment-147 MP3 is obviously not an obsolete format. (1) It's in mainstream use (99%+ of digital music not sold by Apple is sold as MP3 files, 99%+ of audio podcasts are MP3 files), (2) it does a great job at what it was designed to do, and (3) it's been actively updated over the years to support modern concepts like Unicode metadata. AVI is obsolete because (1) it's not in mainstream use (people who don't download torrents will never see an AVI file), (2) it doesn't support now-basic codec concepts (like B-frames) or content concepts (metadata, chapters, subtitles) except via hacks that aren't widely supported, and (3) it's been dead in the eyes of Microsoft, its creator, since the last century. If you do ever run into an AVI file, it'll be designed for PC playback in any case. So you'll still want to run in through a transcoder (or use Orb to play it from your home PC, which will automatically transcode it as necessary) to convert it to a modern file format at a mobile-friendly frame size and bitrate. MP3 is obviously not an obsolete format. (1) It’s in mainstream use (99%+ of digital music not sold by Apple is sold as MP3 files, 99%+ of audio podcasts are MP3 files), (2) it does a great job at what it was designed to do, and (3) it’s been actively updated over the years to support modern concepts like Unicode metadata.

AVI is obsolete because (1) it’s not in mainstream use (people who don’t download torrents will never see an AVI file), (2) it doesn’t support now-basic codec concepts (like B-frames) or content concepts (metadata, chapters, subtitles) except via hacks that aren’t widely supported, and (3) it’s been dead in the eyes of Microsoft, its creator, since the last century.

If you do ever run into an AVI file, it’ll be designed for PC playback in any case. So you’ll still want to run in through a transcoder (or use Orb to play it from your home PC, which will automatically transcode it as necessary) to convert it to a modern file format at a mobile-friendly frame size and bitrate.

]]> By: Peter http://blog.kinoma.com/2009/12/how-to-use-handbrake-to-optimize-video-for-your-phone/#comment-146 Peter Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:58:33 +0000 http://blog.kinoma.com/?p=3447#comment-146 AVi is not an obsolete format. It's a commonly used and very convenient format for most of us. You could also say that mp3 is an obsolete format. But the best player is the player that can read ALL the formats, including the one that you consider as obsolete. No one would accept a player that cannot play MP3. So it's the same for movie player that cannot play Avi. AVi is not an obsolete format. It’s a commonly used and very convenient format for most of us. You could also say that mp3 is an obsolete format. But the best player is the player that can read ALL the formats, including the one that you consider as obsolete. No one would accept a player that cannot play MP3. So it’s the same for movie player that cannot play Avi.

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