news 28 Posted November 14, 2008 The recently released BlackBerry Bold here in the United States, features a half-VGA (480x320 pixel) resolution Transmissive TFT LCD display that is perfect for watching movies on. Read on as Legit Reviews gives you a guide on how to transcode DVD movies to work on the BlackBerry Bold using a program called Badaboom. Badaboom uses both the GPU and CPU for transcoding, so ripping a movie can be done in under 15 minutes. Quote: "The Badaboom Media Converter was amazing to use and the fact that it completely transcodes a DVD using a bit rate of 2500kbit at a resolution of 480x320 in under 16 minutes was amazing. Two years ago it took me 3-4 hours to transcode a DVD using a bit rate of 237kbps and a resolution of 320x240! The performance gains that can be had with stream computing are obvious and I'm a big fan of using the GPU to complete tasks like transcoding. If you have an NVIDIA graphics cards that supports CUDA then this is something you have to try out to believe it..." or "I transcoded the movie at the highest possible bit rate, which was 2500kbit. The bit rate refers to the number of bits used per unit of playback time and in this situation it was 2500kbit, which might be too much for the 624MHz processor found in the BlackBerry Bold 9000. I began lowering the bit rate and found that a bit rate of 1000bkit worked flawlessly on the BlackBerry Bold 9000. It took about six transcodes and 90 minutes of time to figure that out, so I hope that tip saves people some time..." Article Title: How To Play Movies on the BlackBerry Bold Using Badaboom ( -at -) Legit Reviews Article URL: http://legitreviews.com/article/826/1/ -- Share this post Link to post