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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.
im fairly new to the android world.
im trying to get a movie (star trek) on my phone. it's mpeg4 format. according to the samsung website that format should work. so i transfer it from the computer to my phone, and when i play it it says file type not supported.
i downloaded a converter (total video converter) and converted it to every possible thing i can convert it to, watched videos on how to get videos on it. i don't understand the issue.
it is an itunes file, but i figured it being an mp4 it wouldnt matter.
here's what i'm doing.
tvc>import>startrek>choose format>convert now
plug phone into computer>explore files>add star trek to movies folder>video player>fail.
anyone else having issues getting videos on their phone?
Hmm strange. Most of my movies are xvid or H.264 with mp3 audio in an mp4 container (avi didnt work) and they work fine. Even 720p videos.
What format are you using?
Also: You aren't trying to watch it by browsing with a file explorer on your phone are you? Use the gallery or video player app.
i added enemy at the gates (.mkv) to my external SD card via drag / drop and it works just fine... not sure why your mp4 isn't working, though
well it being an mp4, initially i just drag and dropped it, it showed up in gallery and it wont play. it pops an invalid format error.
so i've tried converting it from mp4-mp4 h.264,and mp4 AAC, and can't get it to play.
i really don't know what else to do.
does samsung have a certain mp4 format? because that seems unlikely.
mdsannihilation said:
i added enemy at the gates (.mkv) to my external SD card via drag / drop and it works just fine... not sure why your mp4 isn't working, though
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i just tried converting to .mkv, and it says unsupported file type.
btw my phone is stock, no hacking no rooting.
You say it's an iTunes movie. Did you buy it from the iTunes store? If so, one possibility is that the DRM implemented by Apple is restricting your playback. I don't know if Apple has started to play nice with other devices regarding movies and video content, but for the longest time I recall that songs purchased from the iTunes store could only be played by an iPod due to the DRM.
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You say it's an iTunes movie. Did you buy it from the iTunes store? If so, one possibility is that the DRM implemented by Apple is restricting your playback. I don't know if Apple has started to play nice with other devices regarding movies and video content, but for the longest time I recall that songs purchased from the iTunes store could only be played by an iPod due to the DRM.
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its not from the itunes store. i bought a blu-ray with a digital copy, and at the time i had a 3gs, so i registered the digital copy and sent it to itunes.
maybe i can convert it to something windows media player is compatible with...wmv? and sync it with my phone, ill see if that works i guess.
Generally, those digital copies have DRM and can only be transferred to devices in "sanctioned" ways.
yeah, sounds like a digital copy problem. mine was just a rip I got from phazed-dl... have you tried another movie yet?
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its not from the itunes store. i bought a blu-ray with a digital copy, and at the time i had a 3gs, so i registered the digital copy and sent it to itunes.
maybe i can convert it to something windows media player is compatible with...wmv? and sync it with my phone, ill see if that works i guess.
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and this is where your problem begins. What you can do is download a copy of the movie from the web since you already own the movie and legally obtained an original copy. This will avoid the drm issue.
All BD digital copies are DRMed. They are tied to either your iTunes or Windows Media Player on the PC (or in rare occasions PSP). These digital copies are not transferable to other devices that are not DRM compatibile.
I can not play 1080p mp4 files, is this a limitation of the phone. Is there a hack?
conversion settings
Cant for the life of me get smooth playback on my capti... I converted a movie with these settings
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 1.79 GiB
Duration : 1h 36mn
Overall bit rate : 2 657 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2010-08-21 15:39:07
Tagged date : UTC 2010-08-21 15:39:07
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 1h 36mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 2 496 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 7 672 Kbps
Width : 960 pixels
Height : 540 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Original display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Minimum frame rate : 23.810 fps
Maximum frame rate : 24.390 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.201
Stream size : 1.68 GiB (94%)
Encoded date : UTC 2010-08-21 15:39:07
Tagged date : UTC 2010-08-21 15:39:07
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Format settings, SBR : No
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 1h 36mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 157 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 260 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 108 MiB (6%)
Encoded date : UTC 2010-08-21 15:39:12
Tagged date : UTC 2010-08-21 15:39:12
I get occasional stutter while in playback. My HD2 plays videos MUUUCCCCHHHH smoother.. what am i doing wrong here?
cesierra said:
I can not play 1080p mp4 files, is this a limitation of the phone. Is there a hack?
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The phone records in 720P and has an 480 x 800 resolution. You should down convert your file - it is probably huge anyway.
steeldragonnyc said:
Cant for the life of me get smooth playback on my capti... I converted a movie with these settings
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 1.79 GiB
Duration : 1h 36mn
Overall bit rate : 2 657 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2010-08-21 15:39:07
Tagged date : UTC 2010-08-21 15:39:07
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 1h 36mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 2 496 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 7 672 Kbps
Width : 960 pixels
Height : 540 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Original display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Minimum frame rate : 23.810 fps
Maximum frame rate : 24.390 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.201
Stream size : 1.68 GiB (94%)
Encoded date : UTC 2010-08-21 15:39:07
Tagged date : UTC 2010-08-21 15:39:07
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Format settings, SBR : No
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 1h 36mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 157 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 260 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 108 MiB (6%)
Encoded date : UTC 2010-08-21 15:39:12
Tagged date : UTC 2010-08-21 15:39:12
I get occasional stutter while in playback. My HD2 plays videos MUUUCCCCHHHH smoother.. what am i doing wrong here?
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You have a resolution of 960 x 540 on a screen that is 800 x 480 - so that could be part of the problem, unless the phone just lops off all 4 sides.
I use iPOdME to convert videos to mp4. It's free and does a great job. I actually have used it to put videos on my Zune 80gb (non HD Zune).
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I use iPOdME to convert videos to mp4. It's free and does a great job. I actually have used it to put videos on my Zune 80gb (non HD Zune).
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You have a resolution of 960 x 540 on a screen that is 800 x 480 - so that could be part of the problem, unless the phone just lops off all 4 sides.
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I have also done conversions at 800 x 480 with the same outcome.. In fact, I converted a movie for my hd2 and it played fantastic on my hd2. I then copied that same conversion on to the capti but it showed that stutter.
steeldragonnyc said:
I have also done conversions at 800 x 480 with the same outcome.. In fact, I converted a movie for my hd2 and it played fantastic on my hd2. I then copied that same conversion on to the capti but it showed that stutter.
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I know the movies i have converted for iPhone and AppleTV formats using DVDFab work fine. I would have to check settings when i get home. Going to try making an MKV with 800 x xxx resolution on the next converstion for kicks.
720p mkv's (x264 w/ ac3 audio) play flawlessly, as do 480p xvids (xvid mp4 w/ mp3 audio), downloaded from the "usual" places. The only problem I have found is the 4g file size limit on the fat32 internal sd.
Im using handbrake with anydvd still fine tuning but it was watchable out of the gate
Hey forum!
As of recently the standard video player on android can play .mkv format and I have been using it a lot. But suddenly yesterday when I was playing an episode of "Death Note" it froze on 5 minutes.
What happened is:
-the video and audio froze
-the trackbar kept "playing" the seconds as they continued
-if I dragged the pointer to another position in the video, even the trackbar got stuck
-then after waiting it would say: "Active Video Helper is not responding"
*force close*
-it would return to the list of videos
-there I wouldn't be able to do anything as well
-giving me the same message and a force close option again.
*force close*
-the image where the video froze just flashed in the background out of nowhere (althoug it was already gone)
-then returned to home screen, which also froze and required it to be closed and started again.
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The way i got "around" this issue:
-reboot phone
-open video again, it would work fine and freeze on another part of the video
(had to reboot multiple times for some videos and not at all in others - it seems to occur randomly)
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Now I'm asking you, has anyone had similar problems to this?
And can someone tell me if this is sw or hw related?
Or is it just possible my SD card copied some bits of the videos in the wrong place (giving faulty .mkv files?)
small edit, the specs:
stock ROM, latest update for unbranded devices: LGP990-V10c
Baseband: 1035.21_20110622
Kernel: 2.6.32.9
Build: FRG83G
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Thanks.
Had the same problem with some MKV files. You should just download another version of the video or convert it
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Had the same problem with some MKV files. You should just download another version of the video or convert it
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Thanks, gonna try it right away.
I've tried only 1 mkv file at the moment.. though the video and subtitle are running fine, the audio is really bad (scratches n hisses)
I actually have quite a library of mkvs but haven't got the time to test the others
I'll update when I've tested the video player with other mkvs
Sent from my LG-P990 using XDA App
amateru said:
I've tried only 1 mkv file at the moment.. though the video and subtitle are running fine, the audio is really bad (scratches n hisses)
I actually have quite a library of mkvs but haven't got the time to test the others
I'll update when I've tested the video player with other mkvs
Sent from my LG-P990 using XDA App
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I guess it depends, I have played Far Cry movie with srt subtitles, it ran smooth and fine (even sound) and I played Rambo 1 with srt (kept hogging the video, got blurry). so I removed the subtitles and it ran smooth again.
Got really bad sound with some other player, think it was MoboPlayer. With stock player it ran nice and smooth, but tried only one mkv 720p movie with ac3 5.1 sound and subtitles.
With microHDMI-HDMI cable sound goes to TV (stereo downmix) with unexpectedly good picture quality. Unfortunately my AV receiver doesn't have HDMI so I don't know will the phone give real ac3 stream out.
Latest 622 stock.
Tried other videos yesterday, played another mkv full length movie just fine.
Only the episodes of Death Note I have seem to have the "random freeze" to them.
Any idea what's causing this?
Bad download? (they play fine on pc)
Or something with the MKV decoder on the phone?
Well that isn't phones fault, it's just badly compressed or damaged file.
Download again, or try some mkv fixing/scanning tools. Like this one: http://www.fanhow.com/knowhow:Fix_MKV_Video_Files_27725469
Problems with playback of "mkv" files are caused by the encoding profiles used when encoding the video inside the mkv file.
mkv are just a container - usually containing a video and an audio track
the container itself doesnt make any difference regarding the playback, but the way the video track inside was encoded does make a difference.
the video inside are often compressed using so called h264/mpeg-4 compression format, when encoding this there are several different encoding options which are organised into something called profiles and levels.
read more about these here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC
The nvidia tegra chip in our mobiles only support up to a certain profile level, namely up to profile level called baseline L4.0 - so any video that is encoded with options that result in a higher profile level will have problems with playback on the phone.
use the software "media info" to check what kind of video and audio track are inside your mkv file and at which encoding settings they were encoded
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
If a video is encoded with settings not supported by the tegra chip, then your only option is to either reencode the video using supported settings, or try another version.
Stuttering, skipping, break ups in video with colored macroblocks, slowmotion playback etc. are all signs of a video compressed with non supported settings. Not an error of the phone.
make sure the profile if you want to play mkv on the phone, because many mkvs have high [email protected](it's only for pc) and you have to downgrade to baseline [email protected] / baseline @4.0
and make sure to see the video bitrate don't get too high
also the audio has to downgrade from dts 6.1 to stereo 2.0(but make sure to test first because it can be wrong )
Last 2 posts helped great!
The indiana jones movie stats:
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Death note video:
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 6 frames
is it that Format profile [email protected] ### I should be watching for?
although obviously 3.1 vs 5.1 should explain why.
Yes, the profile "High" is not supported, neither at level 3.1 or higher (allthough with the latest firmware some [email protected] videos may play of other encoding settings are relaxed)
some of the encoding settings here causing the videos to be profile [email protected] or [email protected] - are these:
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
The baseline profile do not allow the use of CABAC encoding, and only 1 ReFrame - in these cases video are compressed using both CABAC and 5-6 ReFrame settings, causing them to be part of the higher profile levels.
if you look at mediainfo for video files you record with the videocamera in the phone you get a pretty good picture of how it should look - for instance like this for 720p video
Video
ID : 2
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 30s 623ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 109 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 29.912 fps
Minimum frame rate : 17.123 fps
Maximum frame rate : 32.573 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.149
Stream size : 15.0 MiB (98%)
Language : English
For a 1080p video it would instead say
Format profile : [email protected]
I see, I've always checked videos for resolution / bitrate / audio bitrate / etc... But never had to go in-depth like this before
Guess it's time to learn a bit about it.
glad that i can help
Thanks for this information. Sorry to resurrect this thread, but does the latest firmware v10e support [email protected]? How would we know?
Soulj4h said:
Thanks for this information. Sorry to resurrect this thread, but does the latest firmware v10e support [email protected]? How would we know?
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try find a play a high profile movie and you will know
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try find a play a high profile movie and you will know
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Yeah I did. I tried to play it (on v10D) and only sound played. No video.
search mxplayer in android market it plays all codecs and allows you to switch from software to hardware decoding if your hardware support it and will use that automatically if it does, its free and is optimized for dualcore and tegra devices.
Playback with mkv on software decoding using this player is very smooth no lag or sinc issues so far.
this sample is a 720p mkv avc [email protected]/cabac/5 ref frames
https://rapidshare.com/files/3445066036/720p mkv avc high_4.1 cabac 5 frames.mkv
can ob play it in stock player?
ahhm2011 said:
this sample is a 720p mkv avc [email protected]/cabac/5 ref frames
https://rapidshare.com/files/3445066036/720p mkv avc high_4.1 cabac 5 frames.mkv
can ob play it in stock player?
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No.
Download MX Video Player and use SW decoding to play the file.
Hope this Helps..
indian84 said:
No.
Download MX Video Player and use SW decoding to play the file.
Hope this Helps..
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thanx man,what about this sample?
https://rapidshare.com/files/3528051982/720p mkv avc high_4.1_cabac_4 frames.mkv
ahhm2011 said:
thanx man,what about this sample?
https://rapidshare.com/files/3528051982/720p mkv avc high_4.1_cabac_4 frames.mkv
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anybody else?
ahhm2011 said:
anybody else?
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can anybody try this video in stock player and tell me the result?
https://rapidshare.com/#!download|123p9|3528051982|720p%20mkv%20avc%20high_4.1_cabac_4%20frames.mkv|2512|0|0
the max it can play is 720p XVID.
tried to play mp4 video with MX player
HW+ / HW decode failed..... but SW decode succeeded
is nook hd+ not support HW decode ??
thanks
It does support HW and HW+ decoding, I've used it to play a number of h264 encoded videos.
Your issue may have to do with which h264 profile the video was encoded with. I know for a fact that it will fail to play 10-bit videos in HW/HW+ mode.
Vasaeleth said:
It does support HW and HW+ decoding, I've used it to play a number of h264 encoded videos.
Your issue may have to do with which h264 profile the video was encoded with. I know for a fact that it will fail to play 10-bit videos in HW/HW+ mode.
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that's mean not support mp4 video ?
I'd also recommend installing the MX Player ARMv7 NEON codec from google play store. I'm pretty sure that that one applies to the graphics chipset in the Nook HD+. all the mp4 videos I've tried playing worked in H/W+ mode.
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personally i dont care for mp4 but have tried huge 1080p mkv's and all play without a hitch (streamed from home network pc I might add)