Ways to convert movies to smartmovie format. Here is mine.

This is along winded way, but it gives you good synced audio with a smartmovie avi. Saves you having to muck about with video sizes and filters in VDub

Smartmovie settings

Untick reduce frames
Use xvid codec. Set quntitizer to 15 and target bitrate to 120
This is nice compression and nice quality

ignore audio we will deal with that in vdub. Set it low to save disk space

Save off your avi file and open it in vdub.


VDub

Here you want to select no audio in the menu and then save the avi again. Use direct stream in the video menu.
Now open the original file (the big original rip) in VDub and in save click save WAV.

Open the new no sound avi and in audio select Wav Audio and select the wav you just saved. Also under audio select full proccessing mode.
Again in the audio menu goto compression and select lame.
Here is where it gets a bit vague. I use a low mono (conversion > mono) setting with about 80kbps and 8000hz or 44000Hz. Look for a setting with 10kbs. The options available will vary with teh video. Fiddle with these as we all have our own preferences.

Video settings. Look in the frame rate settings. Select Change so video and audio durations match.
Now convert to fps and use about 15. There are many opinions on this, 10-12 for animation and 12-20 for film seem ok. 15 is a nice mid point

Ok now makeing sure that the video option is set to direct stream, save your new avi.


This gives a watchable reasonable sized avi.

the painkiller demo movie goes from 10mb to about 2mb

Tell me where i have gone wrong :)

I have not tried this on a long film. Biggest i did was a 20min simpsons episode. This went down to 12mb.

As said this method will give you synced audio so no messing about with the settings in smartmovie player!