After much trial and error I have finally got films playing at an acceptable quality on my TD2.
I have looked at a lot of threads from the Touch HD forum and tried quite a few programs including DVD Fab, the Touch HD ‘Encoder’, Super, Mp4ForHD and a few others I can’t even remember.
What I have found works best ‘for me’ is this combination:
Use DVD Decrypter from here http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/to remove the encryption on the DVD, and to also transfer it to your hard drive.
Then I use Handbrake from here http://handbrake.fr/ using this setup I can batch convert films instead of one by one by using Handbrake alone.
Steps:
1. DVD Decrypter
2. Using the default settings I select where I want the film to be stored, then just click on the bottom Icon.
3. This takes about 25 minutes depending on the disc.
4. Handbrake
5. Someone on one of the many threads I saw recommended to use the ipod legacy settings, and while this helped, it fell a little short, so I adjusted and came up with the following settings
6. Select Source (this would be where you saved the files previously)
7. I leave Title as is, as long as the Duration looks the right length
8. Browse for a location to save to finished file (make sure you add .m4v to the name)
9. Settings:
a. Format M4Vb. Picture Settingsi. Automaticii. Width / Height –Leave Blankiii. Anamorphic – Noneiv. Other settings leave off / unchecked
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c. Videoi. Video - Video Codec – H.264 (x264)ii. Video - Framerate – Same as Sourceiii. Quality – Target Size – Leave Blankiv. Quality – Avg Bitrate 1000v. Quality - Constant Quality 0%
d. Audio & Subtitlesi. Source – Select English (or your language) IMPORTANT, This will need to be selected for each film you convert, the settings won’t be savedii. Audio Codec – AACiii. Mixdown – Stereoiv. Sample Rate 48 kHzv. Bitrate 128 kbps
10. I leave Chapters, Advanced and Query Editor alone.
11. Now you can Click ‘Start’, but this will only do one at a time (and as explained in the Handbrake docs, if the GUI crashes you lose the conversion) so I always select ‘Add to Queue’
12. Now you can either ‘Run’ the queue or once you have added the current file to the queue you can now start from Selecting Source and recheck the settings, then ‘Add to Queue’ with the next film, great for batch converting.
Now for me it takes about four hours for each film, so its not quick, but my PCs fairly old (P4 3.0 Mhz, 1500mb RAM), but considering it has to change each frame of the film I don’t think that’s bad.
Once its all done you end up with around a 1-1.5 gb file, transfer this to an SD card.
For viewing I use only HTC Album for these files, both Coreplayer and WMP don’t perform as well (if at all), also although HTC Album is limited in its settings, there is a simple way to convert the picture from Letterbox, to Full Screen, to Cropped (as long as you haven’t entered anything in the picture size ‘Width / Height’ settings) by using the square button on the right hand side when playing a film.
Note 1: I discounted some of the programs I tried because they couldn’t merge the vob (DVD files) files into a single output file, unless you wanted to use yet another program to do this (‘Vob Merge’ can do this, although I never tried it)
Note 2: To avoid any ‘issues’ this should only be used for DVDs you already own.
Just thought I’d share my experience as it took me quite a while to get the results I wanted.
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Thank you you have done a great job.
This tool is also very easy to use:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478050
That's a good one,but Oh My God! Does that mean the TD2 won't be able to play .avi or .divx? I thought I will just drag and drop my PC videos/movies to the TD2 and it will play flawlessly. I really hate this converting thing..
ithehappy said:
That's a good one,but Oh My God! Does that mean the TD2 won't be able to play .avi or .divx? I thought I will just drag and drop my PC videos/movies to the TD2 and it will play flawlessly. I really hate this converting thing..
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Oh do not worry
I never converted a divx for my TD2.
Never had a problem
But i think if the film is converted our TD2 will drain the battery not fast as not converting at all (just my opinion and NOT confirmed by tests)
Or perhaps it is ok to convert when a divx has a VERY high bitrate.
for me i dont have convert i just use coreplayer to play my movie files
Sorry, I should have made it clearer, but this is for DVD's only, as for most people trying to play 4gb + vob files taken straight from a DVD would pose problems!
As for other formats, it all down to what works best for you.
this is post number 9999999 about the subject, and in many experiences it doesn't really matter which converter u use, but the settings are important, and also important to know is that the mediaplayer that comes with your TD2 (i'm talking about the one that looks like windows mediaplayer) can run HDvideo on your TD2, which for me is the only way i want to watch anyway, cause any other player can't use the diamond 2's HD acceleration for video....
so convert to mp4 (h.264). look up the proper thread for it somewhere in the topaz threads. it's out there somewhere. worked great for me, and gives me the maximum quality on my td2.
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Electronic picture frames are slowly catching on, and we all have gigabytes of family pictures on our desktops at home, but dont have much opportunity to see them.
Ive just bought a Tilt, which has the ideal design for either a desktop clock or a small picture frame. I tether every day, so its normally sitting next to my laptop, powered, but doing nothing.
My solution is in 2 parts. 1 free and 1 will cost $9.95
First, how to get your pictures on the device. This is simple using the media synchronizing abilities of active sync and desktop Windows Media Player.
First enable the media sync plug-in in activesync, then go to Windows Media Player and go to the sync tab with your device plugged in. There you should see your device as a sync-able storage device. Select it, chose to create a new sync profile, be sure to remove all the ones that are already there by default, choose to sync pictures, and add a further criteria to only sync say 10 MB. Set it to sync automatically.
This will copy about 10 Mb of photos (shrunk down to 320x211 resolution) to your device, to a Pictures folder at the root of your device.
Next you need an app called Dockwave Pro. This is not free (they do offer a free version, but it does not have the configuration options we need). Install it, point it to the pictures folder on your device, set the time out and the job is done.
Now every time your device is powered and idle for a few minutes, you will be surprised by a random selection of photos from your collection.
There is not much detail in this post, as I'm not sure how many people are interested, but it obviously can be fleshed out more with screen shots etc if there is enough interest. For a Tilt/Kaiser user its near perfect of course, as the device almost seemed designed for the role.
BTW, there is a built-in option in the built-in picture viewer, under options/slide show to play a screen saver of the pictures under the My Documents\My Pictures directory if your device is idle for 2 minutes, but Windows Media Player wont synchronize pictures to a directory accessible to that software, and the transitions are poorer.
Surur
Interesting idea. Could probably whip up a custom app for that. Now comes the problem. I have no pictures! (I should really get a camera, lol )
Chainfire said:
Now comes the problem. I have no pictures! (I should really get a camera, lol )
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I think you may have a decent 3 megapixel one lying around
If you are going to make a custom viewer, you really need to try out Google photo screen saver out for inspiration. It has a brilliant zoom and pan mode which really brings your pictures to life, and it also downloads pics via RSS, which makes for a nice ever-changing performance.
http://pack.google.com/screensaver.html
Surur
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I think you may have a decent 3 megapixel one lying around
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Right Too bad it has no flash and even though it has 3MP the quality is nothing to write home about. I mean a real camera, that takes pictures I want to keep
If you are going to make a custom viewer, you really need to try out Google photo screen saver out for inspiration. It has a brilliant zoom and pan mode which really brings your pictures to life, and it also downloads pics via RSS, which makes for a nice ever-changing performance.
http://pack.google.com/screensaver.html
Surur
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Overkill I think for on a 320x240 device, but who knows. I don't even know if or when I'm going to do this, just an idea
Well, Chainfire,
For one, I would LOVE to see what you could come up with for a custom application! To test it out, just download a few pics from someplace....
$9.95 isn't bad...but something that matches the elegance of our Kaiser/Tilts is deserving of something GREAT!
Chainfire said:
Right Too bad it has no flash and even though it has 3MP the quality is nothing to write home about. I mean a real camera, that takes pictures I want to keep
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Quality won't have to be stellar on that small screen though
surur said:
Next you need an app called Dockwave Pro. This is not free (they do offer a free version, but it does not have the configuration options we need). Install it, point it to the pictures folder on your device, set the time out and the job is done.
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This is already a feature of WM Pictures & Videos (w/out fancy transitions):
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From my post above.
BTW, there is a built-in option in the built-in picture viewer, under options/slide show to play a screen saver of the pictures under the My Documents\My Pictures directory if your device is idle for 2 minutes, but Windows Media Player wont synchronize pictures to a directory accessible to that software, and the transitions are poorer.
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Surur
borealcool said:
This is already a feature of WM Pictures & Videos (w/out fancy transitions):
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he mentions that in the post but also has it's limitations like as far as when you sync to wmp...
EDIT: you beat me to the reply....hehe
Version 1.2.3 came out this week and I have downlaoded it. However, far from solving the youtube problem (i.e. where the spinning wheel goes round forever) the spinning wheel just blinks for a second and then nothing.
Is anyone else having this problem? IIf not, what are your settings for buffering etc?
I had the problem with wheel spinning around forever but only if I had was connected via T-Mobiles WnW Plus GPRS. If connected to WiFi then the video would start playing. I just presumed that T-Mobile were blocking the ports, is that the case?
Wam7 said:
I had the problem with wheel spinning around forever but only if I had was connected via T-Mobiles WnW Plus GPRS. If connected to WiFi then the video would start playing. I just presumed that T-Mobile were blocking the ports, is that the case?
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I have t-mobile too and they definitely prohibit streaming video using WMP on the basic webnwalk tariff. However, youtube works for me using either VTAP or the tcmp/flashbundle. So I still don't understand why there should be a problem with Coreplayer
rienzi said:
Version 1.2.3 came out this week and I have downlaoded it. However, far from solving the youtube problem (i.e. where the spinning wheel goes round forever) the spinning wheel just blinks for a second and then nothing.
Is anyone else having this problem? IIf not, what are your settings for buffering etc?
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I'm with AT&T Wireless here in the United States, and I'm using The Core Player on my Tilt and YouTube works fine for me. My buffering settings are as follows-
Normal buffer size 2400 KB
Preload at underrun 70.0%
Preload for audio 64 KB
YouTube on Core Player works fine for me on EDGE, 3G and WiFi.
californiarailroader said:
I'm with AT&T Wireless here in the United States, and I'm using The Core Player on my Tilt and YouTube works fine for me. My buffering settings are as follows-
Normal buffer size 2400 KB
Preload at underrun 70.0%
Preload for audio 64 KB
YouTube on Core Player works fine for me on EDGE, 3G and WiFi.
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I have the same settings, but still no joy
You WILL be limited on the quality of the feed based on many factors... let me explain... CorePlayer is the first media player to feature Configurable YouTube quality control.... You control the bandwidth and quality that your platform can handle. From Low, Medium, to High quality (H.264) streams.
What happens if you get a 'buffering' icon forever.... that means that its a connectivity issue, BW or device capabilities.... So what we are going to do to make it easier for those less fortunite to have infinite BW resources is:
- Add our progressive download support sooner rather then later. This will help to cache/playback content
- Add an 'auto seek' for the quality setting to make it more seemless.
Here are some more things you may not be aware of.... as well as some things you can do with YouTube in CorePlayer:
- Disable YouTube 'Tools > Preferences > Select Page > Network' and uncheck 'Enable YouTube Support' Restart and its gone
- Set stream/quality 'Tools > Preferences > Select Page > Network > YouTube Format'
* Low (RTSP) default video resolution / audio
** Medium (RTSP) 448x336 44100hz
*** High (H.264) 480x360 44100hz
- Change the default YouTube Profile to be shown 'Tools > Preferences > Select Page > Network > YouTube User' change to the user you wish
- Use http://m.youtube.com on Pocket IE (mobile) or IE (desktop) and click "play' to play a video in CorePlayer.
- See previously played YT videos in the CoreTheque Media Library under 'Top 50', '100 Last Played' or 'Not Rated'
- Open YouTube Videos the 'EASY' way. 'File > Open URL' youtube://123456 (replace 123456 with the video ID, for example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123456 )
Also note that SOME european users that sit behind a cell PROXY will not be able to connect... now we are getting reports that is some instances that our HTTP Tunneling support does work.... but there is not much we can do in this case as its a limition of the carrier.
ONE LAST THING.... this is just the beginning.... Starting with the next release we will have a HUGE new feature page called 'Channels' that will have many of the webs top video sites.... DailyMotion, Break.com, Revision3 (with DiggNation, TekZilla, The Digg Reel), CNET, etc.
Heres a sneak peak of just DailyMotion
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rienzi said:
I have t-mobile too and they definitely prohibit streaming video using WMP on the basic webnwalk tariff. However, youtube works for me using either VTAP or the tcmp/flashbundle. So I still don't understand why there should be a problem with Coreplayer
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The funny thing is that it worked fine on a slightly older version of Coreplayer so I can't be 100% that it is my provide T-Mobile as I do have the Plus version of the data package which should allow everything but VOIP.
Save as...?
Hey BetaBoy,
will there be a Save Video feature in upcoming releases?
In my opinion, the only missing feature...
Best Regards,
Nik
Guys, read my just-posted review of CP 1.2.4 at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=387986
nikjensie said:
Hey BetaBoy,
will there be a Save Video feature in upcoming releases?
In my opinion, the only missing feature...
Best Regards,
Nik
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We are thinking about how best to do this. IE; a similar function like Quicktime Pro where it allows you to 'save' video. We will however need to add progressive downloading first... but this is planned for 1.3.x anyway.
Menneisyys said:
Guys, read my just-posted review of CP 1.2.4 at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=387986
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For sure nice articel, and credit owned.
If only the current issues with 1.2.4 refelcting a black screen on 6.1 releases can be fixed
Looking forward to a solution!
Good work !
ceevee369 said:
For sure nice articel, and credit owned.
If only the current issues with 1.2.4 refelcting a black screen on 6.1 releases can be fixed
Looking forward to a solution!
Good work !
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are you referring to the QTv incompability? if so go to video settings and chose another renderer (DirectDraw works fairly well under the new 6.1 ROMs)
undac said:
are you referring to the QTv incompability? if so go to video settings and chose another renderer (DirectDraw works fairly well under the new 6.1 ROMs)
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Yes, but "fairly well" is not enough neither GDI is "good enough"
CoreCodec did confirmed yesterday on their community site that QTV is indeed not supported in WM6.1 and that they are looking into this now.
Which makes me thinking that HTC did changed rendering DLL's blocking QTV
I changed the Normal buffer size to 480kb as well enabled microdrive mode(not sure what it does or is) and now it works fine on Rogers 3G where as before it would just keep loading.
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*created by kidnamedAlbert found on freewarepocketpc. Enjoy.
Or you could have gotten it from my site
http://www.4shared.com/file/51674625/12a7c540/HTC-Diamond_AudioManager.html
But nice post, none the less.
P1Tater said:
Or you could have gotten it from my site
http://www.4shared.com/file/51674625/12a7c540/HTC-Diamond_AudioManager.html
But nice post, none the less.
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haha, I miss one day in here and i find myself way behind. Thanks for the tip.
what does this prog have that you cant just simply use windows media player for...i listen to audio(mp3's, stream live radio and news, and watch sports and news broadcast's on windows media player, so what specifics other then being just and audio manager does this thing do perfect for listening to music.
Also is this one less resource intensive than the previous one (one on the Cruise ver 1.02 build 1017.717)? I had read a thread somewhere comparing the cpu usage of wmp compared to audio manager and remember audio manager being more resource intensive. Also anyone know how this one performs when opening up with over a thousand songs? The aforementioend one lags.
hambola said:
Also is this one less resource intensive than the previous one (one on the Cruise ver 1.02 build 1017.717)? I had read a thread somewhere comparing the cpu usage of wmp compared to audio manager and remember audio manager being more resource intensive. Also anyone know how this one performs when opening up with over a thousand songs? The aforementioend one lags.
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I prefer audio manager over windows media. First, audio manager is more user friendly, second, you can trim music for your ringtones, what else is there to state?
this does seem a bit faster than the older htc audio manager...before if a song was playing, and i went to the library, all songs...and just scrolled through them quickly using the d-pad...the music would stop every few seconds, now i can scroll from top to bottom and it doesn't skip at all.
thanx for the find...but only if i could get the true htc touch diamond audio manager w/ the cover art. that plus htc diamond weather and i'd be set
you can add mp3's on your sd card or device to be your ringtones without this application tho....so i still see no difference in this and WMplayer other then cool lookingness and its an htc app specifically for audio playing and not for a wide range of things like how windows media player is.
moegdaog said:
you can add mp3's on your sd card or device to be your ringtones without this application tho....so i still see no difference in this and WMplayer other then cool lookingness and its an htc app specifically for audio playing and not for a wide range of things like how windows media player is.
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It comes down to personal choice. I like how Audio Manager handles its categories.
yea personal taste is what it all boils down too...i just hate wasting space in my device thats unneccessary even tho i have a 2gig card (i have a huge phobia of going over 35-40mb of space on my total of 125 on my device storage not microsd card) im currently at 35mb..with 90mb on the dot free on my device. Becauuse obviously the more device storage u waste up, you start clogging up your phone and it starts slowin down and eventually you have the tough chose of bearing on with the slight but burdening sluggishness or hard reset your phone and start from scratch again and even if you uninstal apps, some of their .dlls or temp files still stay embeded in your phone and you will never be able to delete them unless you hunt them down in the windows folder and im too scared that i might delete the wrong file and it could be a system file and i end up doing some dumb**** ...but i also do wanna try it out and see if having another media player thats specifically for playing mp3's is worth it. So there you have it, a break down of my harddriveaphobia...but for you guys ill try out the app. This was like therapy..thanks nobody that really helped.
moegdaog said:
you can add mp3's on your sd card or device to be your ringtones without this application tho....so i still see no difference in this and WMplayer other then cool lookingness and its an htc app specifically for audio playing and not for a wide range of things like how windows media player is.
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ok dudette, WMP does not trim.
totally!!!!! ahaha
redbandana said:
ok dudette, WMP does not trim.
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I LIKE TRIM LOL
redbandana said:
*created by poorlyduck found on freewarepocketpc. Enjoy.
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actually that picture shows MY diamond audiomanager not poorlyducks...
moegdaog said:
you can add mp3's on your sd card or device to be your ringtones without this application tho....so i still see no difference in this and WMplayer other then cool lookingness and its an htc app specifically for audio playing and not for a wide range of things like how windows media player is.
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One great thing about Audio Manager over WMP is that it can remember the last song you were playing. Good luck doing that with WMP.
So...
It's not diamond manager, it's only images skin for HTC audio manager packed to CAB file...
Better is WMP diamond skin
I seem to be the first to say this. But after Audio manager is installed. Were is it suposed to be located? been looking around for 30 min now and i cant still find it...
guys I installed this program and I can't find the program in my program list at all. after I installed the program, it shows that its installed in my phone, its in my remove programs list in settings...but theirs no program icon in programs...and theirs no folder for it in my program files folder on my device and in my storage card where I asked it to install to. So has anyone ran into this problem before? I can't open this app at all because their is no folder or program icon for it...can someone help? p1tater, redbandana? somebody? thanks
trying to install the cab by itself does not change anything about the audio manager skin...so is their some files I need to replace to get the updated diamond audio manager to work correct?
This looks to be just a theme. All it does is copy some pngs to the windows folder.
This is a version of TCPMP I finished Mar.7,2010. Hope you enjoy!
www.4shared.com/file/236159674/2559877c/porkenhimer_projects_tcpmp__po.html?s=1
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This is a version of TCPMP I built using dll's, plugins & codecs i have collected. Hope you enjoy.
4sharedcom/file/233969768/cdfd473b/tcpmp_porkie_edition
Video Formats:
WMV
XVID
DIVX
MOV
MP4
3GP
FLV
FLV4
H.263
H.264 (AVC)
Plus many more common formats.
Added & Fixed:
Fixed FLV fullscreen shaking by adding a newer FFMPEG.PLG
Added 24 languages
Added 2 subtitle plugins
Added AVRCP control
Added GAPI driver
Fixed equalizer
Instructions:
Install cab to sdcard then open TCPMP for the first time & then close it. After closing copy all the files in the zip to the TCPMP program folder. if it ask to overwrite select yes to all. Do not copy the files to the program folder unless u have already opened and closed TCPMP. After copying the files open TCPMP again. You will get a few error alerts but thats fine. Now you are finished. No need to soft reset.
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what the rubber duck is a 'dll'
4shared.com/file/233969768/cdfd473b/tcpmp_porkie_edition
CORRECT URL
porkenhimer said:
4shared.com/file/233969768/cdfd473b/tcpmp_porkie_edition
CORRECT URL
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I know that Android is beginning to replace WinMo, but if you want to get a foothold on Android your going to have to port your media player to android first.
never used winmo, put had a 'play' the other day, it is truly awful, but haret.exe fixed it, the diamond now has Eclair 2.0 on it, and hell it works much better... when camera fully works will do nand flash and get rid of the winmo bs )
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I know that Android is beginning to replace WinMo, but if you want to get a foothold on Android your going to have to port your media player to android first.
never used winmo, put had a 'play' the other day, it is truly awful, but haret.exe fixed it, the diamond now has Eclair 2.0 on it, and hell it works much better... when camera fully works will do nand flash and get rid of the winmo bs )
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The main difference between winmo and android/iphone is that one is for professional use (intelligent people who work and think) and one is for entertainment (children, adult handicaps and people who don't know how to hold a pencil). Unfortunately looks like WinPho7 is going that way too - another toy. You might like it
darfri said:
The main difference between winmo and android/iphone is that one is for professional use (intelligent people who work and think) and one is for entertainment (children, adult handicaps and people who don't know how to hold a pencil). Unfortunately looks like WinPho7 is going that way too - another toy. You might like it
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>/dev/null
I don't want to bring you down but you're bundling a lot of useless files (same as Tech1 build... all those dll files are either useless or already exist in the ROM). I get the feeling you used Tech1 pack as base and added some files from the fake 0.81 and the other ones are from bimbam...
Some may prefer the subs.plg (because it works in all video modes) but has a lot of flickering in fullscreen depending on the video size and must be activated (in settings) everytime you play a movie with subs.
Only advantage is that using an old player.exe makes the lyrics plugin work...
However it's a (way) bigger setup, without skin support (unless you consider the backgound used by the lyrics plugin) and older components.
Some Pointers...
You may want to see exactly which plugins your executable uses, and which it does not... These will vary depending on which versions you have. More is not always better, and fewer plugins means more speed, and greater efficiency. With testing, you will be able to determine which ones you can delete, and which ones are necessary...
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Both(topics) are good, imho.
fewer plugins means more speed, and greater efficiency.
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not..exactly..true, but nvmd,
it is matter of choices(and testing, idd).
I've got videos (recorded on my phone and were synched to my kindle) in my dropbox account that I've been able to watch on my kindle straight from the APP on my home screen. They're also saved on my kindle and I've watched them before, But now if I try to watch them, they're either choppy (sound plays fine but video skips and shows still shots of each frame) or it'll say it's unable to play.
I tried going straight to the dropbox website and playing them but it says unable to play. I saved them to the kindle manually from dropbox, but. Still choppy or unable to play. Flash is already installed and works fine, even YouTube, with no lag at all.
Anyone have any idea why it'll play video correctly online but not from kindle hard drive or dropbox? I know the videos aren't corrupt because I've watched them before and I re downloaded them today with no change.
Thanks for your help, I hope this makes sense!
Are you running out of storage space? My KF7HD gets pretty slow and unresponsive when i got just one gig or less of space available
Do you install or side load any app when your video play get choppy? not so long ago i sideload sega's "jet set radio" and while it install ok, the play was choppy and it slow down my KF in general, after uninstall it every thing return to normal.
Saved Video is now choppy but flash YouTube OK - Solution: Paid Service
kmodek said:
I've got videos (recorded on my phone and were synched to my kindle) in my dropbox account that I've been able to watch on my kindle straight from the APP on my home screen. They're also saved on my kindle and I've watched them before, But now if I try to watch them, they're either choppy (sound plays fine but video skips and shows still shots of each frame) or it'll say it's unable to play.
I tried going straight to the dropbox website and playing them but it says unable to play. I saved them to the kindle manually from dropbox, but. Still choppy or unable to play. Flash is already installed and works fine, even YouTube, with no lag at all.
Anyone have any idea why it'll play video correctly online but not from kindle hard drive or dropbox? I know the videos aren't corrupt because I've watched them before and I re downloaded them today with no change.
Thanks for your help, I hope this makes sense!
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kmodek,
Dropbox and Video are not a good fit
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Dropbox is a phenomenal service. Over 25 Million Users Agree. We use the service extensively within Xerocomm (Prokennexusa Company) for file transfer and syncing of non-sensitive files, and it has become a part of our daily production workflow. Most of our partners and customers use Dropbox as well, to shuttle files back and forth with us. In fact, several Xerocomm team members have reached the referral limit because of the number of other users they have brought onto the service.
At a high level, this seems like a great use of the service:
Installation is easy – users simply need to download the app, sign up with a credit card, and start using.
Users can download for offline playback
Publishing consists of a user that has access to the shared folder dropping video into the folder
However, there are a lot of problems with this approach:
Security: Dropbox has had a fair number of security holes discovered. While most services will have issues that need to be found, addressed, and appropriately apologized for, the approach Dropbox seems to take is “simplicity over security”. They prefer the service to be simple and easy to use, and if necessary security takes a back seat.
Content security: Dropbox is not built to keep your content secure. Video and documents are stored in exactly the same format that you place them into a Dropbox folder. The only form of device-level security is a four-digit PIN; beyond that, content can be easily retrieved from any rooted or hacked device.
Speed: Uploading a video to Dropbox’s service is slow. Even over fast Wifi connections. Even on paid accounts. The company is clearly limiting bandwidth, in the interest of constraining costs. We have seen speeds as slow as 30kbps. This translates into ~10 hours to upload a 1GB file. The system was not created for speed, and as a result transferring large videos will take a long time.
Playback: Playing video via Dropbox uses the simplistic progressive download method. High-quality videos buffer constantly, or require a large amount of time to fully download prior to playback. Meanwhile, modern adaptive bitrate technology like HTTP Live Streamingor RTMP is nowhere to be found.
Control: Dropbox offers rudimentary support for permissions. A folder in a user’s account is fully locked down. That user can share that folder to another Dropbox user. However, say you want to give 3 users read-only permissions to a folder? Or, worse yet, say you have two sub-folders that should only be visible for one of your users? None of this is possible with Dropbox, and you are forced to constrain your choices to match the simplicity of the service. Worse yet, since there is no ability to give users “read-only” access, any user with whom you share files can then delete those files!
So the big question, what can I do to accomplish this task? Use a Paid service that does NOT throttle the connections - at the moment almost all the current free products throttle video feeds to eliminate Pornography from being hosted from these sites.. There are many to choose from, just Google "Open Source Video Playback Services). Finally YouTube uses a format that requires very little bandwidth so it does not surprise us that YouTube is working fine.