Make the most of the limited capacity on the iPhone

One of my biggest ‘issues’ with the iPhone is the limited disc space. 8GB just isn’t enough to get me remotely interested in one. If I had one though I would be looking at Blade Runner as a means of squeezing every last MB out it to.

Although it wont work with the DRM videos purchased through the iTunes store it will work with video you encode with applications such as Handbrake, Visual Hub etc and can be set to a number of options: 100, 200 and 350 Kbps and 480 pixels width, with varying levels of quality as you would expect. Is it worth it?

Well even at 100Kbps the claims are that the video is watch-able so “as the movie encoded at 1500 Kbps and full resolution weighs in around 1.5GB, but using these newer settings knocks the file down to around 190 MB (for the 100 Kbps file), 300 and 400 MB, respectively. That means you could easily fit anywhere from three or four movies (at the highest quality 350 Kbps setting) to as many as six movies (at the lowest 100 Kbps setting) in the same space as the original high-quality version.”

Via [TUAW]