On my Fuze under WM6.1, Media Player gives very choppy playback of low rez MP3 files created at 16 KBPS and 46 KBPS, but has no problem with 192 KBPS. The same low-rez files play OK under XP and on older HTC devices, like the 8125 under WM5.
WMA files created at 16 KBPS and 48 KBPS play OK on the Fuze.
The MP3 files play OK under TCPMP, but that app is not integrated with the phone, which feature I need. Also, TCPMP won't play WMA and I don't know what to plug in to make it work for WMA.
I have tried with the ATT bloatware present and removed (@essentials_upd1). Activesync is not running or starting/stopping.
Anyone else encounter this or have a fix or workaround?
Ken C
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This is one of my fav websites
http://www.milinkito.com/los80.php
I can copy the videos to my home pc and they work and play fine
I'd like to copy these to my xda2s
What software program can I use to do this? What should the video and sound freq and bitrates be? Has anyone been successful in converting flv to wmv or even mp4?
thanks
Windows Media Player 9 series
v. 9.0.1 build 14132
Ok, I'm able to convert the video to wmv, but no sound
I see that the converter uses an mp3 audio codec
when I need to be using windows media audio 9
I'm using cinemaforge
I found out what audio codec superman returns trailer uses (which sounds great on my pda) - and that is the windows media audio 9
Success!!
Although it is a two step process
Using Cinema Forge I need to convert the flv to either mpg or avi
then when that is done
I then run Windows Media Encoder 9
(which has a pocket pc setting!!)
convert that to wmv and there ya go
That is good, i like some clips from youtube.com, thanks for the info
Offtopic:
You are really all in one, post question then answer it
Too bad that he posts in Blue Angel upgrading etc. (I see no relation between BA upgrade and movie conversion)
Hi everyone.
I know, bad video performance is a known issue (see http://www.htcclassaction.org/).
But on my device I'm not able to play any video file without bucking image. About every second, the image stops for a short instance (I get sick watching this for more than a minute )
I tried different video files with different formats:
- wmv8 with 300 kbp/s, 25 images/s, 320 x 240 with wma8 128 kbit/s stereo (converted using All-in-1 mobile video convert)
- mpeg-4 (H.264)/AVC, between 128 and 1248 kbp/s 25 images/s, 320 x 240 and 64 to 128 kbp/s for stereo audio (converted with SUPER)
- a couple other files found on the web
I tried to play them with the installed Microsoft Media Player. Normally sound is ok, video never is. For the video it seems to make almost no difference what settings I use. mpeg-4 is a bit better than wma8. But between the 1248 kbp/s and the 128 kbp/s video there is no difference (besides th artifacts), It's bucking the same.
Can anyone please tell me, what codec / settings are playable on the HTC S730? Or can someone post an example video file that plays well on his device?
Any help is appreciated!
Window's media player is your problem in this case.
I have Core player and that TCPMP one posted above. If I drop resolution on some of my files I can play them perfectly in core player, and with TCPMP set to low (medium) all videos play fine. High action scenes sometimes cause a little studder so I am going to lower the origional res down a little bit.
The only problem I have run into is on some higher quality ones the phone runs out of page file memory which I currently have set to 1024 within TCPMP. Make sure your phone's memory is clear when trying to watch stuff and you should be just fine. Especially if you are dropping the resolution down that low.
I will try to take a short video of a video playing
Works!
It works! The problem really was windows media player!
Thanks a lot for the hint - I think I'd never try to change the player...
Frame rate is not perfect yet. I still have to figure out what the best settings are, but it is already ways better than before.
Hehe, no problem. WMP is not a well optimized player. For my computer and HTPC I use zoom player, it can handle 720p on a processor that really shouldnt be able to.
Video settings
Hi all.
After spending a lot of my spare time I finally found the right settings for converting videos for the HTC S730.
First I tried to convert videos to H.264/AVC and WM8. This does not produce anything you'd like to look at. Even with very low video bandwidth (200 kbit/s for video) the best I got was below 10 frames/s. With TCPMP it's a bit better than with Windows Media Player but there is no big difference.
But if works fine with the following settings:
Container : AVI
Video Codec: MPEG-4 480 kbit/s
Audio Codec: mp3 44.1 kHz stereo 128 kbit/s
For converting I use the free SUPER (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html).
This way I get close to 25 frames/s (maybe 10% are dropped).
Please note that such a video cannot be played with the Windows Media Player. (AVI is a Microsoft format, but it looks as the player doesn't like the codec.) However it plays fine on TCPMP 0.71 (from here: http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/)
My daily train rides are much more pleasant now
Luki2 said:
Hi all.
After spending a lot of my spare time I finally found the right settings for converting videos for the HTC S730.
First I tried to convert videos to H.264/AVC and WM8. This does not produce anything you'd like to look at. Even with very low video bandwidth (200 kbit/s for video) the best I got was below 10 frames/s. With TCPMP it's a bit better than with Windows Media Player but there is no big difference.
But if works fine with the following settings:
Container : AVI
Video Codec: MPEG-4 480 kbit/s
Audio Codec: mp3 44.1 kHz stereo 128 kbit/s
For converting I use the free SUPER (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html).
This way I get close to 25 frames/s (maybe 10% are dropped).
Please note that such a video cannot be played with the Windows Media Player. (AVI is a Microsoft format, but it looks as the player doesn't like the codec.) However it plays fine on TCPMP 0.71 (from here: http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/)
My daily train rides are much more pleasant now
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With my S710 (has a 200MHz TI OMAP850) I'm streaming 25fps/200kbs of my VLC server (which transcodes digital sat streams in real time). I'm using .ts container, mpeg1 vid, mp2 audio and Coreplayer as client.
I have an episode of Top Gear that I can play in TCMP at mediuam quality, its video rate is 199 / 25 fps.
WMP will only play the non tweeked files, in other words if it was compressed into any codec (xvid, divx, ogg, mkv) and other of the others WMP will not play it unless it has the codec installed. The other players (core player / TCMP) come able to read these files upon install so they work better.
With TCMP most of my files do not even have to be changed, just dump them on the sd card and with the player set to medium quality it goes right through them. Now some high action / motion scenes will cause a little lag or slow down but not much and not for long.
This is soooo ridiculous! WMP worked just fine in the older 200mhz devices! Now we have to switch to TCMP and make sure that no programs reside in memory before playing ANY videos? Ridiculous! HTC is losing a lot of faithful customers with this.
It depends on the type of file's your trying to play.
Just like WMP on the PC, it wont play anything without the codecs for them.
I have tried transfering a few .avi files over to the tilt and when i try to play them back through TCPMP, the sound works fine, but the video only works for maybe 5-10 seconds, then it freezes on one frame for the rest of the time...WTF!! is the Tilt not capable of playing .avi videos??? does this have to do with the video driver issue?? if anyone knows how i could play avi files on the tilt, please let me know thanks
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I have tried transfering a few .avi files over to the tilt and when i try to play them back through TCPMP, the sound works fine, but the video only works for maybe 5-10 seconds, then it freezes on one frame for the rest of the time...WTF!! is the Tilt not capable of playing .avi videos??? does this have to do with the video driver issue?? if anyone knows how i could play avi files on the tilt, please let me know thanks
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I have plenty of videos that play just fine. Make sure you encode them in proper screen size. I have all my videos encoded in 320x240.
how big are the files? i tried to copy huge .avi, mpeg, etc. file in around 500mb range and same thing would happen. If i compress the files it would play especially in another format. usually converting to windows media player works fine. i normally convert mines to .3gp. takes up way less space and looks fine on the cell phone.
See here for lots of info on getting your videos playing perfectly.
use super c,make sure you got the right resolution,format,codec,bitrate and use tcpmp or coreplayer instead of wmp
Guys help me ....
Everytime i want to play a Video with WMP it says "The source filter for the file could not be loaded.". I tried the blackstone encoder which has worked yesterday, when i converted 720p Avatar trailer. But i want to convert an other video, but WMP doesn't play them.
I tried several formats, codecs and bitrates. This damn thing won't work
CorePlayer plays most of the Videos, but lacks video acceleration.
ROM: Valkyrie Firestorm 5.4.23517
coreplayer dude, its the best video player around, with core player what acceleration do you need???
no need to convert avi at 720p with coreplayer, i use all of axxo movies with core player and they show with no video/audio lags, issues or interruptions, and they perform just as good as my dvd player
make sure all ur apps are closed before watching a video for best performance
IMO, windows media player on pocketpc is a joke and is the worst thing on a device, either M$ need to start incorporating codecs or start selling codecs to make it an ultimate media player, i dont even waste time trying to watch a video with WMP
Video specs
Length: 09:45 min.
Size: 62448 kb
Resolution: 800x480
Container: MP4
Video Codec: H.264/AVC
Audio Codec: AAC LC
Video Bitrate: 768 kbps
Audio Bitrate: 96 kbps
Framerate: 25 FPS
H.264 Profile: Baseline 1.3
This video doesn't work on WMP.
And its choppy on CorePlayer 1.3.6.
So what should i do?
try making it divX rather then H.264
It's better with divx but still a little choppy. Any special settings in coreplayer?
A couple of roms I've used had this problem, something with the codec being unavaliable. Just change the rom and you can watch the video on WMP
Just did a hardreset, now it's working.
Hi guy's im looking for a FLV player, or better yet a FLV to mp4 converter for my kaiser. I could just as easily convert the flv files on my pc, but im using you tube play and from time to time i find myself downloading the videos as flv's, i cant blue tooth these files to anyone else because of the file format, but having a converter on my kaiser to convert the files there on the spot would be great and then i could just play them in windows media player and share them easily,i had tried using TCMP and installed the plugins all of them, and still no go with getting them to play, they can play fine in you tube player but you cant forward or go back just pause and play and of course stop, im sure this has quite possibly been asked lots of time's but i cant find the answer. so any help would be greatly appreciated
FLV player
I have the same problem, can't play .flv videos.
Any solutions? Thanks!
Kaiser WM6.5 Shifu 4.2
FLV Player...
Core Player can handle most of the *.flv files , but there is a *flv files with different codec which it can`t... I don`t remember the codec name though...
roko
thanks
kikk
I think Youtubeplay also allows you to search videos in a nice friendly Windows Mobile application and then play the full FLV video ( not miniscule MPEG4 versions ) with its own player. This application is written in the mix. net and C so you need a runtime. net, v2. Overlay video player hacked out of TCPMP and FLV part is based on FFMPEG
i have a solution
convert the video by any video converter to flv or mpeg but you have to select the right video size ( 320 x 240 )