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Diamond supports MP4 and H264 videos

I have just tested and can confirm that Touch Diamond comes with native support for mp4 video or video encoded with H.264 codec. Playing back 640x480 30 fps video is smooth both in the HTC video player and the WM player.
Haven't tried on 720p or even 1080p HD video. Will try it when I can get a hold some HD video clips.

Could you tell us what was the bitrate of the video and if it was h264 baseline profile or main profile?

and converted by what software?

I will try a few more clips later this week and give details about bitate, codec, etc. I did one test this afternoon and found that H.264 is supported
As for the software, there is no conversion needed. the phone can play the video that is mp4, or encoded with H.264 natively.
BTW, the latest flash player 9 supports H.264 videos and I expect more and more flash video will be using H.264 in place of the previous On2VP6 or Sorensen Spark codec.

Video Convertor

Hi... Which video Converter is the best for Diamond, and which video format is best (mp4, 3gp)
thx

No needs special converter for "Diamond" , You can use any video converter..
or use other players like CorePlayer so u can play without convertion..
I m using Ulead VideoStudio to convert files, in fact just to make them little
smaller to save place and I convert them to MP4 and windows medial player can play them too...

either use coreplayer for .avi or a 3gp convertor for x-vid quality but resized to 3gp (best looking imo)

Rajce said:
Hi... Which video Converter is the best for Diamond, and which video format is best (mp4, 3gp)
thx
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1- you dont need to counvert video file anymore jast use coreplayer
2- mp4 have greater video and sound quality than 3gp

PocketDivXEncoder
Although WMP won't play the encoded files, a lot of other player will. And it does a fair bit of resizing (480x640). Above all, it's free and works brilliantly. Download it here! Cheers

What is the best codec and the best codec settings for playing/convering video files?

KraFT_mk said:
What is the best codec and the best codec settings for playing/convering video files?
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I'm also interested in this question. While no conversion is needed with coreplayer, in action movies it can get choppy. Since there's colors that are lost, some trimming could make it a smoother and space efficient file, while maintaining video quality.

I tried many setting and found something between small files and good quality:
with Ulead VideStudio (or other software)
MPEG-4 Files
24 Bits, 192 x 144, 12 fps
Frame-based
MPEG-4 SP Video: 200 Kbps
32000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo
MPEG AAC Audio: 64 Kbps
This setting is good for other device as well..

go with the xvid/divx encoding

MKV Files

So, is it possible to view a video which has AC3 audio and 720p video (That would downscale it to 640x480 automaticly?)
Thank you for your help!

yes, use coreplayer

Hi,
what do you think, that you have a Core2Duo inside your Diamond ???
You can play it with Coreplayer, but if you wanna see a slowmotion video, then go on. On the other hand, Coreplayer wont play video with AC3 sound (not implemented yet) You need to convert the sound first to mp3 or aac.
Go and transfer the movie to the mp4 format in vga size, with a max AVC 2.1 Profile and max 900kbits for the video, than it would play fluently. Otherwise not watchable.
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tomahak

Playing MP4 videos on rooted NC?

I transferred several MP4 videos I shot with my G2 onto the rooted NC but they can't be played.
I'm guessing that because the NC doesn't have a camera, it's GPU may not have the hardware codec necessary to play the MP4 files.
Has anyone else had any success playing various video formats?

I had some success using rock player. I was able to load a 1024x576 mp4 video on the nc and play it in rock player. It wasn't silky smooth, but perfectly acceptable for watching. I used handbrake to rip it. I can post more details and maybe upload a sample if you'd like.

johnnyb138 said:
I had some success using rock player. I was able to load a 1024x576 mp4 video on the nc and play it in rock player. It wasn't silky smooth, but perfectly acceptable for watching. I used handbrake to rip it. I can post more details and maybe upload a sample if you'd like.
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Yes, please.
Looking at bn.com it looks as though playing mp4 videos should be working out of the box...
I would appreciate a sample video and your HB settings so I can transcode some content of my own to carry around.
Thanks!

I wans't able to get the video to play with the B&N player as advertised, but that may have been because of my handbrake settings, which as promised are as follows:
Container: MP4 File
Picture: Anamorphic Loose, Width 1024 (to fit the nook)
Video Filters: All Off (shouldn't matter for playback, only for how good of quality the transfer is)
Video Codec: MPEG-4 (FFMpeg)
Framerate: 29.97
Average Bitrate: 997kbps
Audio: AAC (faac), Bitrate: 160
I have a 3MB sample here.

NC default player doesn't support video width above I think 854. You can find the exact specs in the FAQ on BN support.
Audio needs to be aac rather than mp3. To make a long story short, mp4 and m4v aren't video formats. They're containers for a video stream plus an audio stream, and there are a wide variety of video and audio stream types that can go in this container. NC default player doesn't support all of them, but the ones it does handle I've found it handles better than RockPlayer.
Sent from my LogicPD Zoom2 using XDA App

Anyone try Vplayer, works on my epic. Will test it on my NC tomorrow!
Sent from an Epic 3G on SERO.

MKV Player

Searching for player which playes mkv videos including its subtitles without converting it into some crap. Tried Rockplayer and mvideoplayer but without luck.
Any suggestions or advice ppl?

am using vitalplayer and it's quite good with my mkv files....though i haven't really tried on a movie with subtitles.

Robson said:
am using vitalplayer and it's quite good with my mkv files....though i haven't really tried on a movie with subtitles.
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how to convert this files?

VPlayer supports mkv

Yeah but it does not play subtitle in videos

RockPlayer suports all video format

bearthang said:
RockPlayer suports all video format
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yep, same here.
I love that App.

Yes its a great app but it doesnt play subtitles including videos.
Any better advice??????

Rockpalyer works great!!
But i'm interested in subtitle too

Rockplayer works for me.

M video player

I'm not sure how QQPlayer handles it, but it's another free (great) video player worth downloading and trying.

Still waiting........

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Still waiting........
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I'm waiting too

Only phones with native mkv video format support can play .mkv videos efficiently. So, forget about mkv, it doesn't matter which player you use. But anyway, the best video player for me is RockPlayer.

Try Vital player. It supports SMI and SRT subtitle files.
But i don't try mkv files. It should work coz rmvb works.

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QQ Player works great on My HD2.

Vitalplayer works fine.

Mediacoder
I think the best method would to just burn the subtitles into the encoded video...
Furthermore, MKV container can support a lot of different video (most commonly h.264)...
either way, it would be beneficial to convert to h.264 video and aac audio in mp4 container... Then virtually all target devices can play the file. You'll run 720p that way a lot better too (480p ideally to save space)
So, if you have a nvidia card with PureVideo2 I definitely recommend this method...(or a decent cpu)
mediacoder has cuda encoder bundled with it to make quick work of video->mp4
Here are some of my settings that I use in Winmo, plays back flawlessly on android too.
Video:
Avg bitrate - 1200 (you can set it higher if you want... you'll just get a bigger file size with marginally better quality imo)
Format - h.264
Encoder - Cuda (NVidia cards) , ffmpeg (cpu encoding)
Audio:
Format - LC-AAC
Encoder - FAAC
Avg Bitrate - 128 MPEG4
Container - MP4 (select it in both audio and container tab)
Picture:
Resize - 800x480
Aspect Ratio - Set pixel AR, 1:1
Crop - Disabled
Subtitle
Renderer - Default
Scale, position, outline, blur) - adjust for subtitle appearance
ID - 0 to # (set according which subtitle you want to use from the source video
These are just some loose settings to get you into ballpark range...
make sure you preview before you encode a bunch of files and make sure it works on the device.
I also think there is a "portable device" edition of mediacoder
Sorry for the long post.

mobo player plays mkv with subs but it isnt the best. good enough for the meantime till i find something better.