[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Steeve24:
After much trial and error I have finally got films playing at an acceptable quality on my TD2.

I have looked at a lot of threads from the Touch HD forum and tried quite a few programs including DVD Fab, the Touch HD ‘Encoder’, Super, Mp4ForHD and a few others I can’t even remember.

What I have found works best ‘for me’ is this combination:

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Use DVD Decrypter from here http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/to remove the encryption on the DVD, and to also transfer it to your hard drive.

Then I use Handbrake from here http://handbrake.fr/ using this setup I can batch convert films instead of one by one by using Handbrake alone.

Steps:

1.	DVD Decrypter

2.	Using the default settings I select where I want the film to be stored, then just click on the bottom Icon.

3.	This takes about 25 minutes depending on the disc.

4.	Handbrake

5.	Someone on one of the many threads I saw recommended to use the ipod legacy settings, and while this helped, it fell a little short, so I adjusted and came up with the following settings

6.	Select Source (this would be where you saved the files previously)

7.	I leave Title as is, as long as the Duration looks the right length

8.	Browse for a location to save to finished file (make sure you add .m4v to the name)

9.	Settings:

a.	Format M4V​

b.	Picture Settings​

i.	Automatic​

ii.	Width / Height –Leave Blank​

iii.	Anamorphic – None​

iv.	Other settings leave off / unchecked​

c.	Video​

i.	Video - Video Codec – H.264 (x264)​

ii.	Video - Framerate – Same as Source​

iii.	Quality – Target Size – Leave Blank​

iv.	Quality – Avg Bitrate 1000​

v.	Quality - Constant Quality 0%​

d.	Audio & Subtitles​

i.	Source – Select English (or your language) IMPORTANT, This will need to be selected for each film you convert, the settings won’t be saved​

ii.	Audio Codec – AAC​

iii.	Mixdown – Stereo​

iv.	Sample Rate 48 kHz​

v.	Bitrate 128 kbps​

10.	I leave Chapters, Advanced and Query Editor alone.

11.	Now you can Click ‘Start’, but this will only do one at a time (and as explained in the Handbrake docs, if the GUI crashes you lose the conversion) so I always select ‘Add to Queue’

12.	Now you can either ‘Run’ the queue or once you have added the current file to the queue you can now start from Selecting Source and recheck the settings, then ‘Add to Queue’ with the next film, great for batch converting.

Now for me it takes about four hours for each film, so its not quick, but my PCs fairly old (P4 3.0 Mhz, 1500mb RAM), but considering it has to change each frame of the film I don’t think that’s bad.

Once its all done you end up with around a 1-1.5 gb file, transfer this to an SD card.

For viewing I use only HTC Album for these files, both Coreplayer and WMP don’t perform as well (if at all), also although HTC Album is limited in its settings, there is a simple way to convert the picture from Letterbox, to Full Screen, to Cropped (as long as you haven’t entered anything in the picture size ‘Width / Height’ settings) by using the square button on the right hand side when playing a film.

Note 1: I discounted some of the programs I tried because they couldn’t merge the vob (DVD files) files into a single output file, unless you wanted to use yet another program to do this (‘Vob Merge’ can do this, although I never tried it)

Note 2: To avoid any ‘issues’ this should only be used for DVDs you already own.

Just thought I’d share my experience as it took me quite a while to get the results I wanted.

Please feel feel to let me know what your thoughts are.​

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