Render for digital photo frames

Rob-Candlelght Prductions wrote on 3/3/2008, 5:32 PM

I've tried THREE digital photo frames that supposedly support MPEG1, MPEG4, .MOV and AVI.

Frames: Kodak, Pandigital, Smartparts.

I got MPEG1 mostly working on two of them.
AVI from my digiatl camera works on them too, but I can't get any AVI generated from Vegas to work on them, nor the MPEG4 properly, or .MOV/QT with various CODECs.

Anyone ever have experience with rendering for playback on a digital picture frame... what'd ya' do?!

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Cheno wrote on 3/3/2008, 6:45 PM

I'm actually working with an company who are partnering with a digi frame company to build one that really kicks some arse for video playback. What we've discovered is mpeg2 (they won't tell you it works though) works best (at least for the frames we're testing) - You'll see these frames get better and better and really used for video marketing ( look for some at NAB ;) )

720x480 mpeg2
224Kbps audio
Progressive / 23.976
Max Bitrate - 6,000,000
Average - 4,000,000
Min - default 192,000

Files have to be under 300 megs - best is around 280megs though. You can get around 8 minutes of good stuff for this - anything longer takes a pretty big hit. If you're doing commercials, you can use the default NTSC template and it will look great.

Colors even close to illegal colors will take a bad hit with this compression - clamp it as good as you can too.

email me your results if you can - chenopup at gmail dot com

cheno