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Video from the Kiser on a PC

OK, so I have recorded a Video on my phone and can see it with the PPC Media Player v10 on it.
I get this .mp4 file to my PC. Now what? Windows Media Player has no friggin support to view .mp4 files!
I found alternative viewers, that all nice, but how do I convert this so I can see it on any pc or inclusively upload to lets say YouTube?

Try Quicktime....
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/

VLC media player...

Thanks to both of you. I tried both, and VLC actually has no audio...
Re: Quicktime, yes, it is pretty ubiquitous, but requires QuicktTime to be installed.....
I need to convert this to something more portable?

I changed to the other format.

m0bov said:
I changed to the other format.
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what , where?

In the settings of your camera you can change the format it creates. Put the phone into video mode and then go into the camera settings.

You just need to get the right codec pack to enable Windows Media Player to support .mp4 files. A quick google search for 'windows media player mp4' turned up what looks to be a good howto on the subject:
http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/how_to_play_mp4_files.cfm

rajpaul said:
You just need to get the right codec pack to enable Windows Media Player to support .mp4 files. A quick google search for 'windows media player mp4' turned up what looks to be a good howto on the subject:
http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/how_to_play_mp4_files.cfm
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hm. weird... I didn't find that in my initial searches....
Will give it a try. Thanks!

laakness said:
In the settings of your camera you can change the format it creates. Put the phone into video mode and then go into the camera settings.
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I see. I will give the h.263 a test.. not sure yet what characteristics this codec has... let me google it...

Great. Now I am able to see the video on my PC... but still haven't found a nice (aka free) conversion app that would allow this to be seen on other computers.
Anyone with good and free application suggestions?

Super from erightsoft
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Dnload
I envy you guys. I still own my O2 xda iis and like it very much. I wish I could afford this. I just want one that's unlocked.

The KLite Codec Pack, which is really handy (tons of codecs in one install) gives WMP support for the MP4 and h263 vids. 3GP can only be played in Quicktime, I belive. Quality wise, they should all be about the same (pretty terrible).

Jozer99 said:
The KLite Codec Pack, which is really handy (tons of codecs in one install) gives WMP support for the MP4 and h263 vids. 3GP can only be played in Quicktime, I belive. Quality wise, they should all be about the same (pretty terrible).
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the issue is, I need to convert it so others can play it without having to go trough the hoops, but thanks for the additional info

rafa1215 said:
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Dnload
I envy you guys. I still own my O2 xda iis and like it very much. I wish I could afford this. I just want one that's unlocked.
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I'll give that a try.. Seems to be exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

rafa1215 said:
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Dnload
I envy you guys. I still own my O2 xda iis and like it very much. I wish I could afford this. I just want one that's unlocked.
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tested it.. SUPER!!!! Thanks.. great tool, and can't beat the pricing

Herald and Divx Movies

Hello. I am considering to buy an HTC p4350. So I was wondering if Herald can play full screen unconverted (as it was downloaded) divx movies?

TCPMP player shoould be able to play it. The performance depends on resolution and bitrate. OMAP CPUs (like herald has) have severe problems with any movies in higher resolution than native 320*240, so don§t even think of playing CD movies.
The conversion is with right software (I can reccomend Spb Mobile DVD) a mater of several mouseclicks. It easily turns any DVD, avi or mpeg your PC can read into PPC-friendly 320*240 xvid (or 640*480 if you have vga machine)

you can also use pocketdivx it is freeware and then tcpmp to watch
rolanddes said:
Hello. I am considering to buy an HTC p4350. So I was wondering if Herald can play full screen unconverted (as it was downloaded) divx movies?
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I used to have an Siemens SX1 so I always reencoded my divx movies (700 mb but I do not know the res.) in to small movies which SX1 could easily play. But I am tired of converting them. Since I am going to have a huge (2 or 4 gb) sd card then I thought I could forget about that converting trouble. I guess I was wrong?

On a 2gb card you can only put 1 and 1/2 movie (unless you download crappy quality movies) so converting is something you should do anyway.
Some movies are only 150 MB then

As I said, it is matter of 4 or 5 clicks to convert the movie. It used to be trouble back when the only tool we had was virtualDub, but nowadays there is a bunch of specialized softwarers, so it i really an easy task.

You are talking like it does not take any time to convert. Yes Just a few clicks but what about the waiting for the process to finish?

what are you doing at night????
if you are not programming al the time - just let it convert the night and you ahve the movie on your xda for daywork - hehe
jsut kidding
rolanddes said:
You are talking like it does not take any time to convert. Yes Just a few clicks but what about the waiting for the process to finish?
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Thanks a lot. I guess I am going to be around next few years for every problem I will encounter with Herald.
Take Care..

It's not even necessary to convert during the night; depending on the size of the original file with pocketdivx you can convert a 700MB DivX movies within a few minutes (5) into a 320*240 ppcmovie

Hmm. That sounds good then..
What about transfering files to the pda? Do I have to use Activesync or cardreader/bt? Can Herald be connected as a usb mass storage device?

with wm5torage you can acces xda as masstorage - but usb1.1 only.
so with adapter and cardreader it is much faster...
rolanddes said:
Hmm. That sounds good then..
What about transfering files to the pda? Do I have to use Activesync or cardreader/bt? Can Herald be connected as a usb mass storage device?
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You may note that some movies may be able to run absolutely fine in their native format by just overclocking it to 247/260Mhz. I do this several times with some 700MB/1.2GB movies, which are of high bitrate

kdskamal said:
You may note that some movies may be able to run absolutely fine in their native format by just overclocking it to 247/260Mhz. I do this several times with some 700MB/1.2GB movies, which are of high bitrate
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That was absolutely what I needed to hear since I started the thread. Is overclokcing one-click-easy or a complicated prosedure?

use batterystatus - and it is done in 1 sec....
rolanddes said:
That was absolutely what I needed to hear since I started the thread. Is overclokcing one-click-easy or a complicated prosedure?
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streaming DivX
I was wandering if there is any way someone might know how to play streaming DivX and/or macromedia files. Here is a link to a page that I am unable to play (have flash bundle and TCPMP Player installed).
http://webteleradio.com/movierec
Thanks for any info u can provide.

I find that a temporary overclock to 286 while watching high resolution video files does the trick, also if you are using tcpmp sometimes the video will not appear until you press fullscreen mode.
sorry if this has been mentioned already

neptune said:
I find that a temporary overclock to 286 while watching high resolution video files does the trick, also if you are using tcpmp sometimes the video will not appear until you press fullscreen mode.
sorry if this has been mentioned already
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Thanks a lot. I will try all of these whenever I get my hands on my pda.

MisterSosa said:
On a 2gb card you can only put 1 and 1/2 movie (unless you download crappy quality movies) so converting is something you should do anyway.
Some movies are only 150 MB then
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Hmmmm. All 700MB divx movies I've "acquired" only take up about 200 megs after reencoding with dr. divx. And the quality's flawless. In fact, right now I have the first seasons of the simpsons and family guy, as well as harold and kumar go to white castle all on a 2 gig card.

Camcorder record mpeg4 or wma?

Can the camcorder on the Dream record in mpeg4 or wma format?
If not, then is there a way to convert the native video using the phone, so I can then email the converted video immediately afterwards?

I very much doubt WMA will ever be able to record, Maybe a third party app can do mpeg4, As far as converting, best off taking it off sd card to a pc. I wonder if ffmpeg could run on android. but i would be afraid, and it would take 4 months to convert the video

I believe the camera records in .3gp

If you are on a hero build you have the option of mpeg4 or 3gp. If you are on cupcake it is just 3gp.

Thanks for your replies. Im on cupcake so just 3gp it looks like :-(
I wanted to make a short video and share it immediately via email to work colleagues (who dont have the luxury of a media player that can play 3gp, and work computers block all streaming video from the net, so uploading it somewhere is a non-starter).
I'm a novice but have flashed a few different roms onto my G1 - can anyone suggest a stable Hero build that's not too laggy and awful (as I gather most of them are)?

setspeed said:
Thanks for your replies. Im on cupcake so just 3gp it looks like :-(
I wanted to make a short video and share it immediately via email to work colleagues (who dont have the luxury of a media player that can play 3gp, and work computers block all streaming video from the net, so uploading it somewhere is a non-starter).
I'm a novice but have flashed a few different roms onto my G1 - can anyone suggest a stable Hero build that's not too laggy and awful (as I gather most of them are)?
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JACHero and TouchFlow 3D are the ones to go to. If the co workers are able to download anything just tell them to download vlc player it has all codecs built in.

supremeteam256 said:
JACHero and TouchFlow 3D are the ones to go to. If the co workers are able to download anything just tell them to download vlc player it has all codecs built in.
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I'll look into these roms, thanks.
Unfortunately my colleagues can't install anything on the work computers, so VLC player is out of the question.

Sorry, just noticed you said that Youtube wouldn't be an option. You could still try Qik - perhaps it's not blocked. I'll leave my post as is...
Another option would be to use the YouTube upload option and then just send them the Youtube link to the video.
Or, if you'd rather keep the file from public viewing, you can use the "Qik" app and upload it to a private Qik file and provide them with the password.
You wouldn't have to worry about converting the video at all that way and everyone could play it.

Depending on the length of the video you might be able to send it to them as an MMS.. I'm pretty sure .3gp is a standard format.
Another thing to consider, if they have quicktime installed on their computers it *might* be able to play the .3gp... well, let me rephrase that, it should play it, but might not have the proper codec for the video so it may come through as audio only, but it's worth trying anyway

setspeed said:
I'll look into these roms, thanks.
Unfortunately my colleagues can't install anything on the work computers, so VLC player is out of the question.
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PortableVLC ftw

RealVideo Player???

I need some help finding a media player that plays Realvideo VBR files. I have been using the search. I can't seem to find anything.

Anyone???

did you tried coreplayer
greetz

to me coreplayers is a fine video player and i think he can also play VBR files

http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-real-player.html

vivalamoza said:
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-real-player.html
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I tried this player it doesn't work.

I agree. I don't have video, but audio works fine.

Can anyone make -
RealPlayer
Version 11
work on our phones????

I think you won't get any software work with new Real Player as the codec driver never release to Windows Media Platform so far, i heard is becoz due to the license agreement between Nokia and Real. Correct me if i m wrong, i also hope i can play rmvb file in my phone instead wasting money to buy a device just for doing this.

i found some files and reg from somewhere and got rmvb to run on my fuze, but it is really slow. Not sure if it's worth it. PM me your email and i could send you the files.

[Q] 1st android -->Confused

hey i just got hold of my captivate....i was using an iphone earlier and itunes was a bliss....i cant seem to figure out how to use the samsung kies to automatically sync music,songs an videos??
i did it manually though by creating a music folder.....
also what format video does it play???
and at what resolution?
also if i have to do it manually,where do i create all the folders?i dont want a cluttered space....also id prefer if all the videos etc are all stored on the inner sd card

Itunes bliss? really?
Have you tried
http://www.doubletwist.com/
also what format video does it play???
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According to Wikipedia
Media support
The Galaxy S comes with support for many multimedia file formats, including 2 lossless audio codecs, video codecs and video formats: Video codecs: mpeg4, H.264, H.263,Sorenson codec, DivX HD/ XviD. VC-1 Video formats: 3GP (MPEG-4). WMV (Advanced Systems Format), AVI (divx), MKV, FLV Audio: FLAC, WAV, Vorbis, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, MID, AC3, XMF
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catire said:
Itunes bliss? really?
Have you tried
http://www.doubletwist.com/
According to Wikipedia
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hey thanks!!!ill try doubletwist
itunes a bliss is a debatable topic....lol...i personally find it very easy to use and helps me remain orgainsed!!

neo_31591 said:
hey thanks!!!ill try doubletwist
itunes a bliss is a debatable topic....lol...i personally find it very easy to use and helps me remain orgainsed!!
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If that doesnt work (I havent tried doubletwist) maybe one of these apps might work.
I dont have my captivate yet (never owned an android phone before either) so let me know if any of those work out.

if you manually add your media to your device, you can arrange it however you want....beauty of android=its yours to do with what you want

lol!!
im using Handbrake to convert videos to captivate suitable
can anyone please mention the settings in the handbrake??

neo_31591 said:
lol!!
im using Handbrake to convert videos to captivate suitable
can anyone please mention the settings in the handbrake??
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By videos do you mean movies? If that's what you're doing then I use DVD Decrypter to rip them to my laptop then AutoGK to convert them to XviD. I just leave all settings default and set the size to 1CD (700MB). The movies play fine and it's not like it's taking up too much storage space.

I play .avi due to its file size.
Otherwise I don't miss itunes except for pod casts.
Now I can put what media I want on my sdcard and don't worry about it.
You get used to it.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Drag and drop is the perfect way to put anything on any device.
The fact that people want junk programs (especially one like iTunes, which loads a chunk of it's bloated self at startup and slows your computer down) is mind boggling.

neo_31591 said:
hey i just got hold of my captivate....i was using an iphone earlier and itunes was a bliss....i cant seem to figure out how to use the samsung kies to automatically sync music,songs an videos??
i did it manually though by creating a music folder.....
also what format video does it play???
and at what resolution?
also if i have to do it manually,where do i create all the folders?i dont want a cluttered space....also id prefer if all the videos etc are all stored on the inner sd card
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Try isyncr. It doesn't require a program on your computer and will sync play-counts and ratings back and forth. I really missed iTunes myself and this helped with the transition.

mcdewi said:
Try isyncr. It doesn't require a program on your computer and will sync play-counts and ratings back and forth. I really missed iTunes myself and this helped with the transition.
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Isyncr is by far the best especially if you add the wifi tool for a buck I think...never even have to plug phone into computer just walk into house and click on wifi app and auto syncs what you select
Edit....Of course that requires a wireless network
Sent from my froyo'd cog'd captivate

neo_31591 said:
lol!!
im using Handbrake to convert videos to captivate suitable
can anyone please mention the settings in the handbrake??
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I used Handbrake set with high profile settings and they looked great.

Palmetto_X said:
I used Handbrake set with high profile settings and they looked great.
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thanks...ill check it out...i tried playing hd video (avi format)...it ran very nicely but no sound
hey can u please lemme know from where can u download .apk files for apps and games? ? ?i just learned how to do sideloading....

Put me down as another iSyncr supporter. I like using iTunes to manage my music library, but not lock down my device.
In handbrake, I've had good success with using the default iPhone preset, but changing the horizontal resolution to match the source video (up to 800). A high quality 2hour movie runs about a gig that way. Medium quality is about 400mb.