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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.

Question regarding .mkv

hello I just bought captivate three days ago and yet haven't figure out lots of it yet.
I love this device, but only problem that I got now is that it plays regular .mkv video files without converting it but I can't skip or fastforward it. I tried to dl some other video programs, but that wasn't helpful.
and you know you can't just finish the 3 hours of movie at once.
If someone knows how to fix this plz tell me
thx

let me throw an mkv on my phone and test it!

I played it through the stock player, and all I did was tap the screen and I was able to move the seekbar. My guess is that you have a broken MKV file.

I tried 3 different movies.
Pirates.of.the.Caribbean.3.2007.Bluray.x264.720p.AC3-WAF 4.5gb
King.Kong.2005.720p.HDDVD.x264-BKL 8gb

You might want to try RockPlayer but you have to side load it to use the ARMV7 version.
http://www.anplayer.com/index_en.html

It could be the format of the movie. I've got some ctrlHD movies that are working.

yea i tried rock player, but it didn't work
ty though

jindorwas said:
yea i tried rock player, but it didn't work
ty though
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If you play your MKVs on your computer using vlc, can you seek? And most likely this is going to be moved to the general or app thread once a mod sees it.

but isn't it kind a weird? I can skip and fastfoward w.e i want to do with on my comp, but not on galaxy when it plays flawless

madjsp said:
If you play your MKVs on your computer using vlc, can you seek? And most likely this is going to be moved to the general or app thread once a mod sees it.
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i'm sorry but what's vlc?

a media player for PC/MAC

VLC
All the goodness here:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

yea i just tried on vlc and it works properly

jindorwas said:
I tried 3 different movies.
Pirates.of.the.Caribbean.3.2007.Bluray.x264.720p.AC3-WAF 4.5gb
King.Kong.2005.720p.HDDVD.x264-BKL 8gb
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VLC will only temporarly repair broken movies. I think it prompts you when it does.
I have my Blu-Ray backup of avatar on my device and it seek works.
I had to split my movies into 4gb chunks bc of FAT limitations. Are you running a different file system? How did you get an 8gb file on your phone?
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tikidroid said:
VLC will only temporarly repair broken movies. I think it prompts you when it does.
I have my Blu-Ray backup of avatar on my device and it seek works.
I had to split my movies into 4gb chunks bc of FAT limitations. Are you running a different file system? How did you get an 8gb file on your phone?
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Oh I didn't know I have to split, and yea it didn't work when I tried to put them on with samsung kies. so I just put them with regular method just by putting directly into the folder. I will try to split the movie and try again maybe that was why it won't work properly. what kind of program do you use to split the blu ray movie though? mine takes forever to do that

alright I just split my videos with mkvmerge with less than 3 gb which works fine on my computer and run with vlc before I put on my phone. Somehow, movie doesn't even play at all.

jindorwas said:
alright I just split my videos with mkvmerge with less than 3 gb which works fine on my computer and run with vlc before I put on my phone. Somehow, movie doesn't even play at all.
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I didn't even think about it being too large. What filesystem are you running? FAT32 can not handle a file larger than 4gb. If you are streaming from your PC it would cause seek issues.

1) wrong place
2) Format/container/encoding/size
just because it's an MKV does not mean with will work the same as there may be any number of differences in the stack of details that make up the file.
(! Personally, and forum wise, I say rip your own legally owned copies !)

Let me ask a dumb question, do you have the screen locked? Pressing the power button when playing video locks the screen.
I may be under-thinking it but I fear people are over-thinking it.
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HAHAH No that's not the case here.
I just won't be able to seek the movie if I put mkv files in it

[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.
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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.

Come on in if you know anything about video transcoding.

I'm trying to learn how to take hi -def movies in various video formats and convert them to a bluray format so I can burn it to a bluray disc to play on my PS3 and stand alone bluray player. So far I've tried to use avs video converter, avchdcoder, and multiavchd. It's definetly challenging to learn how to create cool looking menus, get the audio to be in sync, and not get any errors. Does anyone have a favorite software they use and any tips? Its frusturating to wait 3-5 hours to convert a movie just to find out there are errors lol. Dvds are easy to create ....it's the blurays that are challenging. I would love to hear some feedback.

Use THIS site as they helped me figure video editing out. But let me warn you about PS3 3.56 Firmware update - Sony has just made it so that it will detect a signature in pirated video; the PS3 will only play homevideos now (unless you know how to decode video ;} )

stangdriverdoug said:
Its frusturating to wait 3-5 hours to convert a movie just to find out there are errors lol.
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quick tip , convert a sample , not the whole movie when not sure about the settings

souljaboy said:
quick tip , convert a sample , not the whole movie when not sure about the settings
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Yeah that's a good idea. A lot of the movies come with samples. See....I'm learning.
Edit : videohelp is a really good forum....I've been using it.

Ok so I transcoded a 8gb mkv to a bluray ISO....took 7 hours. Went to burn it using imgburn and got a error part way through. Guess I need to stop using cheap discs.

stangdriverdoug said:
I'm trying to learn how to take hi -def movies in various video formats and convert them to a bluray format so I can burn it to a bluray disc to play on my PS3 and stand alone bluray player.
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Stop right there. Both your PS3 and Bluray player can play x264 (and all profilesm too, I believe), PS3 also plays xvid/divx/h263, you BD player might too.
Most HD movies that are shared used the x264 codec for video and AC3 or DTS for audio, and in a Matroska (MKV) container.
They will not play on a PS3 (and most likely BD player) due to a lack of support for mkv. You'll need to remux the file in to an MPEG Transport Stream (.ts), after you do this they should be fine on both. I'm not entirely sure if DTS can be muxed in to ts, you might need to convert it to AC3 first, no biggie.

Well I took a shared movie and converted it to avchd using avchdcoder ....the conversion went fine and took a total of 7 hours....burned it to a blank bluray and didn't work in the ps3. The custom menu I created works fine but when the movie started is wouldn't play right. Have no idea why. When I get home ill have to take a closer look. Frusturating for sure. I can use avs video converter which is easy to use and works well but it down converts 6ch audio to 2ch.

Why are you spending hours encoding video and degrading the image quality when you don't have to? *Just* for custom menus?

Yeah pretty much. Just certain movies though. Most movies I just keep on a nas drive and watch them through my laptop which is hooked up to my home theater via wireless HDMI. It's a pretty cool setup actually.

Amazon Cloud Drive and videos

I am very please (like several other users) with the new Amazon cloud drive. I even purchased an album so I can get 20GB free for one year! So I uploaded some episodes of my favorite TV show (Futurama) in HD which worked flawlessly. I can watch them in the browser from my PC or select individual files to download them again. Now, when I try to check the box for the file on my Xoom (either in Dolphin HD or stock browser) nothing happens. Same when I click on the link that on my PC plays the video.
This for me defeats the main purpose, i.e. to centrally upload videos so I can watch them when on the road or on vacation, without using the precious space on my Xoom. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? The playback issue might be related to the plugin that the browser needs to play the file but what about the check box?
Thanks for your suggestions!

I don't see the offer for a 20 Gb upgrade w/album purchase. Is it automatic? And also, is it just for the first year?
TIA

for 1 year after you purchase any album from their website.
also its more like a 15gig upgrade since you go from 5-->20
its automatic although when you want to buy an album you should see some promo regarding it on the page

koreanschoolkid said:
for 1 year after you purchase any album from their website.
also its more like a 15gig upgrade since you go from 5-->20
its automatic although when you want to buy an album you should see some promo regarding it on the page
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It was all automatic, yes. The good thing is that if you do not actively renew they won't charge you automatically at the end of the first year but cut you back to 5GB (as of now).
But does anyone have an answer to my question!!??

It appears to use something our browsers don't support. Which is odd, only thing I can guess is that it uses a quicktime plugin. That or they are acting like netflix and hulu and don't want us Android users watching Video.
I will say that while I like CloudPlayer, I hate it's Shuffle option. It's not random at all. If you close the app and go back in it starts from the begining even though shuffle is on, and then takes you through the same "Shuffle" of music. Only way I have found to truly shuffle is to pick the first song in your list and turn the shuffle on and off several times. then it resorts.

Amazon doesn't link their video library to the cloud player either. I've been able to play videos off of the browser app in the Xoom but would much rather have a dedicated app.

mhausig said:
Amazon doesn't link their video library to the cloud player either. I've been able to play videos off of the browser app in the Xoom but would much rather have a dedicated app.
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What kind of videos did you play? For me still nothing happens when I tap on the videos

mhausig said:
Amazon doesn't link their video library to the cloud player either. I've been able to play videos off of the browser app in the Xoom but would much rather have a dedicated app.
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if amazon had a dedicated streaming video player i would so ditch netflix in a heartbeat

I don't have it in front of me at the moment but I believe it was Amazon Video Library running in Miren Browser. The videos were not the greatest quality, pretty much all I have on Amazon is NickJr stuff for my daughter.

Just wanted top follow up on this. I'm having no problem at all with amazon video library stuff, Nick Jr., in Dolphin, although I do get a warning. Wasn't as lucky trying to play Prime videos, froze up right away.
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Try Xyplayer
Have you tried xyplayer app?