I had just used Xilisoft Ipod Video Converter after I had tried out Videora. It appears that Videora couldn't try to convert .rm/.rmvb into mp4 format. Yet Xilisoft worked wondrously.

However, I had noticed that even I tried to convert a source, which is a rmvb file with 640x480 dimension (~200mb), the output (320x240 mp4 format) still come out with the exact or comparatively larger file size than the source.

I'm just wondering how come the size for the output will be the same as the source, whilst the dimension for the output is SMALLER than the source.

Does other video converter also generate the output as this, where the file size for the output is ~ than the source?

P/S: I wouldn't like to waste the space for a low res video which has the bad quality compared with the high-res video with the EXACT FILE SIZE.

the output file size is same or larger than the source? I bet you didn't set probably on the video bitrate. The larger the video bitrate, the larger the file size will be

For normal, just set video bitrate somewhere near 300-400. If you want smaller file size, try set to 200-250. Once you lower down, the quality of your video will reduce. Later on the quality will be like the china dvd quality

I also using Xilisoft Video COnverter to convert videos, and I set everything to automatic, just change the type of output that I want.

apparently xilisoft ipod video converter didn't have any option for user like me to manually configure the video and audio setting.

Normally I will set 500 as the bit rate. Works like a charm for me all the time.

I juz set the video bitrate to 256 with 320x240 dimension and audio to 80kbps.

The source is ~220MB and the output is ~70-80MB only. Nice.

Btw, is letterbox sounds alright?