From their website (http://www.zediva.com):
"Zediva is a new online movie rental service. Using Zediva, you can watch the newest movies and TV shows available on DVDs.
When you rent a movie on Zediva, you are renting both a DVD and DVD Player in our data center. During the period of the rental, the DVD and the DVD Player can only be used by you.
When you rent a movie from Zediva, you have up to 14 days to complete watching the movie. Each time you rent the movie, you receive control of that DVD for 4 hours.
If you get interrupted while watching a movie or don't want to watch it all at once, you can return to Zediva and rent the movie again without additional charge for up to 14 days. Just return to the movie page and click on "Rent". No movie credits will be deducted from your account after the first rental -- during the free re-rental period.
A special note on long pauses: Your DVD will be automatically returned if you leave it on pause for an hour or more. This is out of consideration to other users who may be waiting to rent the DVD. If your rental is auto-returned, you can re-rent the disc anytime within the free re-rental period (subject to availability). "
Now the bad news: Registration is "temporarily" full.
Now the good news: If you were lucky enough to beat the masses and score a login, this service works great on the gtablet. I rented the movie, "The Town" on my PC/TV combination and watched flawlessly from start to finish, even pausing a few times to accomodate some interruptions. Quality of the video was excellent, no pixelation and no buffering that I noticed. I have a single core 2.2 GHZ processor with 512MB ram and a video card with 1 gig of ram that handled the stream just fine. The next day I attempted to view the movie again on the gtablet (taking advantage of the 14 day rental policy). At first the movie was checked out but the service emailed me when it was available (picked that up on my gtablet) so I immediately went to the site in the stock browser (I am using Vegan b5.1.1) and clicked on the movie title. The system uses a flash control to control the playback. Although I received a warning that the movie was not optimized for mobile device use (which probably would not happen if I switched my browser choice and selected desktop as version), it played back beautifully. A "click" on the full screen option brought it up to near full screen 16:9 display. I watched about 15 minutes of the movie with no pauses and no buffering issues. I am sure my daughter was upstairs using the internet intensely as well so at least for my network no streaming issues. After 15 minutes I turned my attention back to the basketball game at hand and returned the DVD so someone else could watch the movie.
So I would say get on the waiting list and if the MPAA doesn't shut this down, this will be a nice venue for watching movies on the gtablet. Not sure how high of quality the is (HD, 480, 720, 1080?) but the picture on both my TV and gtablet was acceptionally crisp and clear.
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Hi!
I've been reading alot on this forum and im very intersted in the S730, and by reading your posts here the majority seems to think the s730 is a great phone, but noone has said anything considering the video-driver issue in tytnII, whether its a problem in the s730 too?, So how is the video playbak in s730, is it possible to watch a 320x240 movie or TV-series, because i always downsize my shows to 320x240 will i not have any problems?, i currently have an Dell axim x30 which i often use to listen to music or watch movies and it has a 624Mhz processor which gives me smooth video playback, and would hate myself if i bought the s730 and the video playback would be lagging in 320x240...
And also, how is the call quality? is it clear and is the sim-card automatically set up?
thanks in advance...
/Johan
Watching 320x240 is no problem. CorePlayer (TCPMP) handles it well, all is smooth, the cpu power is enough up to 30 - 33 FPS (MPEG-4 ASP, 300 - 400 kbit/s).
What program are you using to downsize the videos?
They way I am currently doing it is too slow
However video playback is perfect. Even with the full resolution video's it only studders on the video and my audio is solid. (core player as well)
Thanks for the answers, and im pleased to hear that watching videos on th S730 is smooth. I'll probably go for this phone, and hope that you guys continue finding good ways of maximizing the performance in the phone!
An btw when I downsize my series or movies i often use pocketdivxencoder found here http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/ . But most of the videos i downsize are Family guy and American Dad so im not really sure on how the result of a real movie would be, but i guess if you maximize both the video and audio quality , you would still end up with a reasonable small file with nice quality!
But to my other question, is the call quality good? in other words does it perform well as a phone?, and i read about the memory leak which i hope will get fixed, but will it cause any trouble if i listen to music via the bluetooth A2DP profile when not using any other programs?
Cool, filesize isnt a problem with my 6gb sd card. I'll play with it. My way works but too much hassle.
My old phone was not very good, so I cant speak too much about call quality. I find its very good overall, I had one occation where my connection was bad (kinda remote location with 1 bar signal) and the person on the other end said I was full of static, did clear up though.
Thats the only issue I have had. The earpiece speaker volume could go up a little higher but I have never had problems not being able to understand people.
i used TCPMP with mine, and the 400mhz makes a huge difference
i barely have to convert any video now when i'm watching my shows (usually in 700x200 or something like that)
with steady framerate and quality
if it starts to stutter or slowdown, i just turn the quality a bit lower in the player and it plays back just fine
yeap
Ic watched normal divx's on the phone, so yeah its very good
I have noticed that compare to the on computer content such as youtube. especially like androidauthority youtube video. I noticed that on YouTube their bottom right conner icon has more blank space. However when I cast from youtube to my TV. I noticed that the video is a bit cut off, not a big deal, but just a bit cut off. Anyone see this too? My TV is an Old Philips 32 inches from at least 4 years back, but surprise has HDMI-CEC
It's overscan, try to turn that setting off it has it.
I received my new Tab S 8.4 LTE just this morning at work, I plugged in the power and fired up the bad boy.
After some quick setups and downloaded some apps, I went to test how the video looks. Took out my 128GB MicroSDXC from the Tab PRO 8.4 (yes, it works in my PRO), it has some high variable bit-rate short music videos I encoded with H264 + AAC (Variable 8Mbps - 40Mbps, 23.97 fps).
First, I used the built in player... and to my surprise.. the video is noticeably playing at a lower frame rate and audio is sliiightly out of sync. Not sure the right word for a video playing a lower frame rate, it is not jittery, not stuttery. I tried all the other videos, the same.... including the Samsung video in the internal storage, which showing ~14Mbps data rate.
I then tried MX Player with all H/W+ deoder switched on, same thing. Then I tried BSPlayer, also with Hardware acceleration, no good. I was disappointed. I searched this forum and googled but I only keep seeing people with micro stutters, but not the issue I'm looking for. Restarted the Tab S, same thing.
I don't understand... the videos are working fine in the PRO. I was thinking maybe QS800 is superior ?
Eventually I decided to just Factory Reset and redo the whole thing again, to see if that fixes it. And it did fix it. Videos are running as smooth as it should again, yay :laugh:
So in case anyone else having video frame rate issue, Factory Reset. Case Closed.
How do you test your video framerates?
That's what I was looking for earlier, but since I was at work, I couldn't look for long enough. Was hoping something like Fraps is available, but I just went ahead and Factory Reset it while I only had a few apps installed.
But the video frame rate issue was noticeable as long as you have watched the video with different means (Computer or another working tablet) to compare.
To check the video's original frame rate itself, and since I use MX Player, I just tap and hold the video file, then tap Properties. It shows frame rate, bit rate, video resolution, codec, etc.
Hey guys!
Recently I bought the Note 5, couldn't be happier about it, but there's one thing that seems off. When trying to watch a 1080p 60 fps video in the YouTube App, even tough it says 1080p 60 fps, I fell like it's dropping frames like crazy, not really playing the media at 60 fps. When playing the video in the small windows while searching for other videos, or even if I download the video and then play it, then I get the smooth reproduction.
Same thing happens to me on my PC when watching 1080p 60 FPS videos on Chrome in full screen, on my 1440 Asus RoG Swift. In the stats window I can see it's loseing frames, but if I watch it in window mode it plays fine.
Maybe it has to do with 1440p displays and 1080p 60 fps compatibility or something like that?
Anyone has noted the same thing?
Anyone?
Galaxy note 4 here, same problem, still occuring as of August 2016. There is a google products forum which started on August 8th, and according to everyone who's posted there, this is a problem isolated to samsung devices.
I stream a lot with TF701T. Currently it has the latest version of CM-nightly. But its always been an issue with this tablet.
Certain apps will get really choppy when playing at full-HD. Most are fine.
e.g.
MLB.tv app, I stream full HD. Everything is great.
NHL.tv app, as soon as it hits HD it stutters like crazy. (Its not internet speed related. I live alone with excellent internet and wifi.) NHL.tv is an app I prefer to be low-res and pixelated and smooth, but that only lasts the first 4 seconds after it starts. I usually just send NHL.tv to chromecast anyway, where it plays fine. But I don't always want to use chromecast either.
Last night, I watched the MLB Blue Jays/Orioles game on the TBS app. Everything was great.
Today, I'm trying to watch on the ESPN app, everything is really choppy... it happens as soon as it hits HD, or max quality.
Anything that isn't live works perfectly fine... Netflix, Youtube, CW, any TV channel app with day old content.
Not really sure what's causing it... or even if I knew, if there would be a way to limit bandwidth, resolution, frames per second.
Thank you