reshet.ynet.co.il not on Download Helper, anything else?

[Amos Shapira]

2009/7/25 Micha Feigin <michf at post.tau.ac.il>
> It's patented, not sure about proprietary, on the other hand, it's the main
> format that is supported by todays phones and such. I think that you need to
> pay royalties if you use it in your software but not to use it as a user,
> although there is x264 which is compatible and free, and ffmpeg which includes
> support for x264, so I don't know where the legal side lies.
>
> Note though that there are several profiles, and not all of them are supported
> in each player/device so that may be the problem. Try using a lower profile,
> that should solve your problem probably. Also check what container your device
> supports since h264 defines only the video encoding, it can still go inside avi
> (partial support, not all features), mpeg2/4, flash (yes, most flash encapsulated
> movies are h264) etc.

This is more of a theoretical discussion for me right now since I got
some time this morning and watched the rest on the desktop, but here
goes anyway -
1. I tried to convert to .mp4 container with H.264, which I expect the
Nokia E71 to support. The player said something about not being able
to play the video but at the same time it played the audio alone.
2. The player can play the .flv file very well, it just can't skip
forward or backward while doing so.
3. The resulting .mp4 file was more than twice the size of the
original .flv file which seems odd to me - I though the h.264 format
was supposed to be strong on compression. Also I didn't do any
scientific comparison but I suspect that the .flv file looks actually
better than the .mp4 file (on the desktop).
4. I couldn't find a way to tell HandBrake anything about the result
(e.g. set the resolution to 320x240) except that it has some "Presets"
on the right-hand side-bar and the one I was using was apparently the
default "Basic->Normal".

I still have to get around to try the result of the second conversion
(which uses ffmpeg) and then maybe the "Normal"->"Classic" preset.

Thanks,

--Amos