~1 hr video which was VHS tape recorded from 8mm video, recorded onto DVD recorder yielded around 2x 1GB VOB files.
Kodak picture frame will only read Mpeg4s or AVIs, and only had some 1Gig USB jump drives. (kinda silly since VOBs are basically MP4s)
Converting from VOB to WMV and/or MP4 gave like 15-20 GB of data. Downconverting to individual AVIs or Mp4s sorta worked, but the quality was horrible when the files were rendered at the file-size that was needed.
An interesting artifact from the 8mm conversion was that the 'strobing' started picking up strong blue color artifacts....making it look almost like the LCD display was oozing blue goo over the old movies. Sorta wierd, yet evil at the same time.
And the Kodak Picture frame has problems playing back anything higher that 320x240 without skipping once every 15 seconds.
The bottom line is that it just could not be done.
A discussion on Video Conversion tools/techniques would be a good thing. For example, I found the best freeware tool ever: the app called "Super" which can do just about anything I could need.
http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html
