Introduction

Contrary to music files which are widely portable from a device to the other one, for videos, it is necessary to juggle between the various formats to adapt itself to the equipment which will be used to read them.

Indeed, a video planned for a "Home Cinema" device can weigh some Go and will be unreadable on Smartphone.
The same video planned for Smartphone will require only some Mb, can be read on a "Home Cinema" device but will be ugly.

It's why we recommend you to preserve as much as possible your projects files and to generate movies according to the device.

To simplify the settings of the render movie operation, ffDiaporama contains a device for the following device:
It is also possible to define each parameters through an advanced option.

Smartphones and tablets

Generally speaking the main differences between these equipments are:
Consult the specification sheet of your equipment or make a look for on internet to know these two characteristics.
For the resolution, note that equipments can generally read videos of lower sizes without difficulties.

The models of available equipments in ffDiaporama are the following ones:

Device type
Operating system
Available resolution
Remarks
Smartphone



Nokia Symbian System S60
QVGA
VGA
Generally, Nokia phones working with the Symbian operating system and being equipped with a camera, are capable of reading videos. Very often, those provide with a keyboard offer a 320x240 resolution ( QVGA), while those provide only with a touch-sensitive screen offer a 640x360 resolution (VGA).
Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: MPEG4 - Audio Codec: MP3
Note: put down videos files in the "My videos" folder having connected the telephone to the PC "mass storage" mode.
Windows Mobile 6.0/6.1/6.5 QVGA
HVGA
VGA
WVGA
Numerous manufacturer made phones using  Microsoft Windows Mobile  6 operating system (HP, HTC, etc.) between 2006 and 2010.
Movie format is: Container: 3GP - Video Codec: MPEG4 - Audio Codec: AMR
Note: put down videos files in the "My videos" folder having connected the telephone to the PC "mass storage" mode.
Windows Phone 7
WVGA
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 is the evolution of Windows Mobil 6
Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC
Android
1.5/1.6
2.1/2.2/2.3
QVGA
HVGA
VGA
WVGA
Near around thirty manufacturer made or still make phones using the Google Android operating system.
Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC
Apple iOS

iPhone 3G/3GS
HVGA Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC
iPhone 4
WVGA
HP - WebOs

WebOs arises from the repurchase of Palm by HP.
Blackberry OS
RIM 240
Movie format is: Container: AVI - Video Codec: MPEG4 - Audio Codec: MP3
Note: put down videos files in the "\blackberry\Video" folder having connected the telephone to the PC "mass storage" mode.
Samsung BADA

To be completed
Tablet Android 2.x
Android 3.x
Linux
800x480
854x480
WVGA Tablet examples: Archos 4/5/70/Arnova 10, Dell Streak, Creative ZiiO 7
Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC
1024×600
XGA
Tablet examples: Archos 101, Samsung Galaxy Tab, HTC Flyer, Hannspree HANNSpad SN10T, Toshiba Folio 100
Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC
1024x768
Tablet examples: HP TouchPad
Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC
1280x800 720p Tablet examples: ASUS Eee Pad, Motorola Xoom, Packard Bell Liberty Tab, LG Optimus Pad, Archos G9
Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC
Apple iOS
iPad XGA
Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC
RIM BlackBerry Playbook 1024x600 Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC
Netbook/NetPC

Windows/XP
720p Require xVid or DivX codec to be installed on the computer.
Movie format is: Container: AVI - Video Codec: MPEG4 - Audio Codec: MP3
Windows/Vista 720p
Windows/7 720p Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC
Android/Linux
720p Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC

Portable devices

These portable equipments are generally very specific. We do not speak thus either about operating system, or resolution.

Device type
Manufacturer/Model
Remark
Portable player

DVD/DivX portable player (car player or travel player) All these devices use the old DVD/DIVX format with anamorphism resolution 720x576 (PAL) or 720x480 ( NTSC).
Movie format is: Container: AVI - Video Codec: MPEG4 - Audio Codec: MP3
If the device does have a USB connector: burn a DVD with your videos files. Otherwise simply copy your files videos to a USB key.
iPod Classic (G5/G6)
iPod Nano (G3/G4/G5)
These two portable player were especially conceived for the music. Therefore, their resolution is only QVGA.
Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC
Apple iPod Touch
This portable player has a video resolution comparable to the DVD (without anamorphism).
Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC
Handheld game console
Sony PSP Resolution 320×480 / NTSC
-s 320x480 -b 512000 -ar 24000 -ab 64000 -f psp -r 29.97
-ac 2 -ar 48000 -acodec libfAAC-LC -ab 128k -r FRAME_RATE -s WIDTHxHEIGHT -vcodec libh264 -vpre slower -vpre main -level 21 -refs 2 -b BIT_RATE -bt BIT_RATE -aspect WIDTH:HEIGHT -f psp

Multimedia system (Home cinema)

This "Home Cinema" devices are connected to a television. The format choice will thus be made according to the capacity of the television.

Warning: The old SD format is only adapted to the old television using the cathode ray tubes technology. With these tubes, points were not round but ovals: we speak about anamorphism.

To read a video using SD format, on a modern television set in LCD, LED or Plasma gives openly disastrous results: The image is particularly ugly! Thus, if your television is recent and if your device allows it, always prefer a HD or Full-HD format to a SD format.

Device type
Manufacturer/Model Remark
TV box of  ADSL box



France - Livebox (Orange)
All these devices support the old DVD/DIVX format with anamorphism resolution 720x576 (PAL) for the DVD resolution
 Movie format is: Container: AVI - Video Codec: MPEG4 - Audio Codec: MP3
All these devices support the MP4 format until the FullHD 1080p resolution
 Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC

Copy your videos files to an USB key or an external hard disk and use the multimedia player integrated into the menu of the decoder
France - Freebox
France - Neufbox (SFR)
France - Bbox (Bouygues Telecom)
Multimedia hard drive and gateway
All manufacturers
All these devices support the old DVD/DIVX format with anamorphism resolution 720x576 (PAL) for the DVD resolution
 Movie format is: Container: AVI - Video Codec: MPEG4 - Audio Codec: MP3
Equipments supporting HD (to verify in the technical specifications of the device) support the MP4 format until the FullHD 1080p resolution
 Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC
Player
DVD/DivX Player
These devices only support the old DVD/DIVX format with anamorphism resolution 720x576 (PAL) for the DVD resolution
 Movie format is: Container: AVI - Video Codec: MPEG4 - Audio Codec: MP3
If the device does not have an USB connector: burn a DVD with your videos files. Otherwise simply copy your videos files to a USB key.
Lecteur BlueRay To be completed
Console de jeux

PS3
All these devices support the MP4 format until the FullHD 1080p resolution
 Movie format is: Container: MP4 - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC
XBox360


For the WEB


Device type Manufacturer/Model Remark
Flash player (SWF)
All SWF player
To be use with the HTML tag object class="player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
 - For 4/3 : 320x240, 640x480, 960x720, 1440x1080
 - For 16/9 : 320x180, 640x360, 1280x720, 1920x1080
 - For 40/17 : 320x136, 640x272, 1280x544, 1920x816
Movie format is: Container:  SWF(2008) - Video Codec: h264 - Audio Codec: AAC-LC
Plate-forme de partage
Youtube
To be completed
Daily Motion
To be completed
Facebook
To be completed
HTML 5
webm
To be use with the HTML 5 tag. To make sure to be compatible with all HTML5 browsers, 3 versions must be generated and integrated as follows:
<video>
    <source src="fichier.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
    <source src="fichier.webm" type="video/webm" />
    <source src="fichier.ogv" type="video/ogv" />
</video>
mp4
ogv

See also



ffDiaporama 1.0 - July 2011