[Q] How can i get movies... - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Cam amyone point me in the right direction to get movies or tv shows on my phone...

Rip a DVD on your computer>transfer them to your phone!
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Or if you have windows 7 and a tuner card you can record whatever you want - then transfer over to the phone. I use iPodifier to convert to MP4.
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I use Handbrake to rip DVD's to m4k format. Rename the extension to mp4, then copy to your SD card. Works perfectly for me every time.

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is there a program that converts videos that will sync with the tilt faster then windows media player?
frank109 said:
is there a program that converts videos that will sync with the tilt faster then windows media player?
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I don't know about converting the videos (yet)...but I do know that using ActiveSync to upload the videos with is SLOW. If you have a Storage Card...just put it in a USB reader and plug it into your desktop for VERY FAST file transfers.
I'm not even looking for a video converter for the Tilt yet until the drivers are fixed...which who knows how long that will take.
For converting videos try this one The pocket DivX encoder (http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/) it converts .avi files to most of PDAs video size and it also work with subtitle inserting.
A nice one
I use Spb Mobile DVD for converting. Although not free, works very well.
Good Converter
I use Sompy MovieEncoder. It converts my 700mb avi files to 120mb - 135mb in about a minute or two. You'll have to play the file in TCPMP or Coreplayer however. Use a card reader to transfer file to your device. As a new guy to this site, I've read about the driver issue. I really haven't experienced(no 3D games or emulators) it. I will say that Sompy's conversion as heads and shoulders better than Media Player's. If the source is good, you wont have any pixelation in full screen. You might want to try it out. Almost forgot...Sompy works on video files...it's not a dvd ripper. Watching Hitman on it now.
If you already have your movie in a divx format on your pc then for converting from DIVX to QVGA divx try PocketDivXEncoder. If you want to go from DVD to divx, it's a bit more complicated.

Get Video Off Of The Tilt!!!!

Ok. I recorded some video on my AT&T Tilt with a memory card. It plays fine on my phone. Well I want to get it on my computer. When I tried to, it was in the MP4 format. So I opened it with Quicktime and iTunes and it wouldn't play. It said there was an error. So I was gonna convert it. I tried to, but it gave me a warning saying that it would have no sound, so I didn't do that. Then I downloaded VLC Player and when I played the videos, they didn't have sound. I tried putting them in Windows Media Center, didn't work. I tried ActiveSync. Didn't work. There has to be some possible way to do this. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!
Same thing happens to me. Now I just record in the other format, QIF I believe. And that works fine.
THANKYOU!!!!!!!!!!
how did you even get "good" video playback?
how did you even get "good" video on the TILT? is it the change in file type that makes the video better in itself? where do you change it?
You can change to CIF by selecting it from the Capture Settings menu (hit menu when the camera is running) under Resolution. The capture format can be changed from MPEG-4 to H.263 if you go to Advanced > Capture Format.
Recording in a well-lit environment helps. I'm not usually affected by placebo, but I and a few other users have reported increased camera performance after installing the latest test drivers for the Kaiser from htcclassaction.org. It DID seem that the framerate was higher. I can't rule out the possibility that updating to windows mobile 6.1 may have made a difference, but I know I don't keep apps running in the background and the comparison whilst not scientific would be pretty fair.
What can be used to view H.263 on the home pc? Will media player play it? And is there a good reason why it just doesn't record to .wmv or regular old mpeg? As you can tell I am a moron when it comes to video.
VLC will read it
kbcherry said:
What can be used to view H.263 on the home pc? Will media player play it? And is there a good reason why it just doesn't record to .wmv or regular old mpeg? As you can tell I am a moron when it comes to video.
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QuickTime will play H.263 encoded files.
The Tilt does not use WMV or MPEG because they do not have formats optimized for mobile devices, so the files end up being huge.
Thanks, that makes sense!
my mp4 videos run fine on wm player! try downloading the vista or xp codec pack which is available on most torrent sites
I know its old but anyway...I record video w/ my kaiser, bluetooth the video over to my laptop, convert with WM convert, open w/ movie maker, edit then post. Sooooooooo easy and no cables required!
You're all going through waaaay to much by using converters & what not. When recording in mpeg4 format just rename the files to ".3gp" after you transfer them to your computer and they will play regularly through quicktime with sound & everything intact.
download K lite codec pack: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_codec_pack.htm
it will allow windows media player to play ANYTHING, throw and file at it and it will play
VLC Works for me
VLC works for me, try it
TLJack64 said:
You're all going through waaaay to much by using converters & what not. When recording in mpeg4 format just rename the files to ".3gp" after you transfer them to your computer and they will play regularly through quicktime with sound & everything intact.
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Use a converter to be able to edit the video in windows movie maker, it takes like 10 seconds to convert a MPEG4 to WMV. (i've got the codec pack but in order to edit the video you need to convert it.)

[Q] program/app i need to watch avi movies????

anyone know if its possible and if so what program/app i need to watch avi movies that i stored n my sd card? when i had the vouge i used tcmp, a great program that played anything i ran on it.
Is there any programs similar to this?
thank you.
search "avi" on the market. I just did, about 5-8 apps popped about but they're all low rated. You can try to convert the avi movies to another format.
tcmp or dviplayer can be used... a search can help you to find one
Try this out...
I used this software converting a few movies and it worked great. Just download Video Player in the market and it will find the videos on your SD card. It may even play avi, but I just convert everything to H264
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=441063

N1 video question?

So I used handbrake to convert a video to an m4vfile will this work I dropped on my sd and go to play I just dont see it I can here it. What is the the procedure to view a movie on the n1?
drop it in a folder, then you can go to the gallary and find that folder and watch it.
The better way though is to download Video Player from the market. All it is an app which searches your sd card for video files and then lists the file names.
Is mv4 a working format for the N1?
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Is mv4 a working format for the N1?
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im not sure, but i think google can help you out with that
I know mp4s work and .h264 is the codec you really should be using
m4v with x264 or MPEG-4 ASP (with DX50 Fourcc, not XVID) works perfectly.

WVM transformers movie

So I downloaded the Transformers movie that came with the nexus 7. I also looked into copying that file over to my desktop for viewing on the big screen. Well it worked, I was able to copy it view WiFi file explorer, and when opened in VLC it played. However it did not seem to fully work. I couldn't drag the slider to skip ahead.
I'm guessing VLC would handle the video much better if it were in a file type it understood. Currently its a .wvm I searched google for a converter but only got results for .wmv converters.
Anyone know a converter? Any idea's why its a rather unique video file type?
This might do better in the Q/A section. I planned to post it there, must have clicked general by mistake.
If you press ctrl-J in vlc it brings up information, its encoded as an H264 mpeg-4 basically a standard mp4 video.
wvm could just be a different container google use for DRM, I can only play the first 10 seconds in vlc then it stops. Handbrake recognizes it but it only encodes the first 10 seconds.

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