Hi Guys,
I really want to show off the screen quality of my TD2 to all my mates especially those ith iphones, ive the core media player which i must say is very good, whats is the highest quality video i could play on the phone?
I download the film Role Models which was a DVDrip axxo, but there was a lot of jurking.
Also whats the best video converter, im using "any video converter" at the moment but unsure which is the;-
1. best film format
2. best videso bit rate
3. best frame rate
our phones can handle
Thanks for any help anyone can input.....cheers
come on people, no one knw the answer to these questions?!
My experience is you can't expect to play most DVD rips from the web, the combination of the full D1 (DVD) resolution and the usual bitrates is just too much for the Diamond2. You would need a dedicated media player like an Archos for that.
You can play DVD resolution rips if the maximum bitrate is much reduced (to 700 - 1000kbps) or you can play higher bitrate movies if the resolution is reduced to less than DVD. Either way you'll have to transcode the movie which is a pain.
From what I read in a Touch HD review, Divx encoded (avi) movies were the most successful.
There is one way to play downloaded DVD rips on the D2. You have to go to Coreplayers settings and reduce "video quality" from "high" to "medium". Then it plays without jerkiness, but the picture quality is s**t. Not good if you're trying to show it off to your mates.
Thanks for the response Peter, appreciate it! Ive just download a few more movies, Iron Man and Madagascar, both run amazingly. suffice to say mates were impressed and my archos 404 is heading towards the bin
I'm glad your credibility (and that of the brilliant D2) was salvaged! Current Archos players belong in the bin
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I get best playback by encoding the video using "HTC Touch HD Video Converter", and playing the video in the HTC Album player.
HTC Touch HD Video Converter is located here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467112
I recomend "SUPER" for convert all you videos and also follow this guide. Will give you awesome results...
Guide located here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=446366
later,
Tyrone
You can also use Vuze. I use it to download the music videos torrents, and it transcodes automatically every file downloaded, so, no hassle. Just set it up the way you like your vidz converted, then off you go, mate.
Of course, for the record, dowloading movies is illegal if you don't own the DVD, and if you do, then you don't have to download that movie again, and blah blah blah.
Please refrain giving titles here, or the MPAA will come get your ass.
to the above poster...
what settings / res / file types (.avi / mp4) do i need to set Vuze too?? I'm new at windows mobile and most stuff really lol.
cheers!!
Thanks for the awesome feedback guys.....
been reading through and it seems like these would be the best settings using Super Video Converter and playing in Core media player
Settings below:
1. swf or flv (Flash) container
2. Flash Video codec
3. mp3 Audio codec
4. DirectShow off
5. 580x348 widescreen 1.6 ratio resolution
6. framerate according to source video for keeping sync
7. 2544 kbps video bitrate
8. High Quality Checked
9. 44100 Freq audio
10. Stereo audio
11. 112 kbps Audio bitrate
But note as these are the best settings for the HD, would point 5. the video scale size 580x348 be ok for the TD2 as we have asmaller screen but same resolution?
B1CEP said:
Hi Guys,
I really want to show off the screen quality of my TD2 to all my mates especially those ith iphones, ive the core media player which i must say is very good, whats is the highest quality video i could play on the phone?
I download the film Role Models which was a DVDrip axxo, but there was a lot of jurking.
Also whats the best video converter, im using "any video converter" at the moment but unsure which is the;-
1. best film format
2. best video bit rate
3. best frame rate
our phones can handle
Thanks for any help anyone can input.....cheers
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The first thing that I did when I got my d2 was the test the video improvements.
So,
1. Go and dl those HD videos encoded by me from here....(50MB) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=43OGWM5R
or the same from here -> http://uploading.com/files/1R5GNAQK/kraft_d2_mp4.zip.html
2. Don't use Core player to play them because CP has no drivers for Hardware video acceleration for HTC D2. Its not their fault, they just don't have the drivers becouse HTC is not giving them.... The only player that uses hardware acceleration is the default Windows Media Player or HTC Album (video player).... WM don't have support for all the popular codecs so u need this #3.
3. HTC Touch HD Video Converter to convert to mp4. This is free (or donate) but slow encoder.
You can find lots of HD videos here, at Windows Mobile Video HD Content Showcase.
Or here....
Any way, those are the best "TO MP4" encoder setings...
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 800x480 (with aspect ratio) 25.00fps
Audio: AAC 44100Hz stereo 1411Kbps [Audio]
- If your source videos are SD (DVD, PAL etc), use the default 600 Kit/s or cubit/s.
- If your source videos are HD (1080p/720p), use 750kbit/s.[/I]
KraFT
My D2 is playing most downloaded movies smoothly, using coreplayer.
In extreme scenes there can be a minimal amount of jerkiness.
Jakob Jakobsen said:
My D2 is playing most downloaded movies smoothly, using coreplayer.
In extreme scenes there can be a minimal amount of jerkiness.
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Most of the standard and low quality movies will run smoothly with Core player..
Download, try and compare the example HQ videos from the first line from the post above....
Unfortunatly, Core player has no hardware video acceleration drivers (long and ver old HTC story) so you cant even compare it with WM player for HQ video playback....
KraFT_mk said:
The first thing that I did when I got my d2 was the test if were any video improvements.
So,
1. Go and dl those HD videos encoded by me from here....(50MB)
2. Don't use Core player to play them because CP has no drivers for Hardware video acceleration for HTC D2. Its not their fault, they just don't have the drivers becouse HTC is not giving them.... The only player that uses hardware acceleration is the default WM player. WM don't have support for all the popular codecs so u need this #3.
3. HTC Touch HD Video Converter to convert to mp4. This is free (or donate) but slow encoder.
You can find lots of HD videos here, at Windows Mobile Video HD Content Showcase.
Or here....
Any way, those are the best "TO MP4" encoder setings...
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 800x480 (with aspect ratio) 25.00fps
Audio: AAC 44100Hz stereo 1411Kbps [Audio]
- If your source videos are SD (DVD, PAL etc), use the default 600 Kit/s or cubit/s.
- If your source videos are HD (1080p/720p), use 750kbit/s.[/I]
KraFT
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KraFT your a Legend, just encoded a few of the windows HD clips and there Amazing. This is a must do....
Haha I've opened a topic just today describing the video formats and all that.
Too bad I didn't come by this post first though....
I'm using formatfactory right now for my conversion, since you can actualy convert ANYTHING to EVERYTHING with it....but i'll try the stuff above, since I have to set my quality really low (though there's no loss of filmquality whatsoever, it does lag, like 18 to 20 frames a sec.)
if this works better and easier, props to you man,
if it doesn't, you'll be hearing from me.....!
Allright, you got me convinced. one of the most important imrpovements is the framerate. though my setup shows just a very smaal decrease of framarate, i like my movies totaly smooth. mine play 20 or 21 frames right now, while this is just that bit nicer .
Quality though, is a bit worse.....but i'm talking maybe 1% loss of quality,actualy only noticable when played on a desktop computer, but still....plus the files are much bigger....but it's not a problem for me, I have 8 gig SD card and tons of space left.
thx for this wonderfull thing! I'm encoding some of my favourites (la haine, kill bill 1 and 2) directly
thx again!
-EDIT-
Did manage to find another downside on ecnoding with this tool. The options for it are by far not as great as formatfactory or Super!......that's a shame, since I usualy use direct converting from DVD, which is not supported by this converter. i'm trying my luck using your settings in my converter
Guys. For the drivers, it's not HTC fault. It's QUALCOMM's fault. somebody should really sue their ass, dammit, it's becoming unfair competition.
And btw, using CorePlayer i've never had any problems. but the bitrate should be less than 800 tho.
I have a problem playing some mp4 movies. I have downloaded about 5 movies, 3 work perfect!! But the other 2 just play a green screen? audio is fine but just get a bright green screen.
Any ideas guys as to what this might be?
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 800x480 (with aspect ratio) 25.00fps
this is all wrong for me, if i use resolution 800x480 with default Streaming Videos program (came with my mobile) then this resolution does not fit at all.
(I use my phone on the side NOT vertical)
tbh 480x272 looked better on my screen
ahile said:
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 800x480 (with aspect ratio) 25.00fps this is all wrong for me, if i use resolution 800x480 with default Streaming Videos program (came with my mobile) then this resolution does not fit at all. (I use my phone on the side and vertical)
tbh 480x272 looked better on my screen
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Do you have HTC D2?
Hi Everybody,
I'm having a great time with SGS's default video player (certainly the best player for android, bettering the third party players).
But there is one small problem I'm facing with this player.
I'm having loads of movies in my hard disk and I'm using Media Player Classic to see it in my monitor and I press the button 'NumPad 9' to zoom to my desired level, as I hate the 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
But in SGS video player, there is no option to do so. There is one great option to "fit to screen". But that stretches the video. Is there any player, through which I can Crop the Aspect Ratio (or Zoom the video)?
If not, Can you guys help me find a video converter that just crops the aspect ratio of the video alone (no conversion, only cropping of aspect ratio), there by it doesn't take a lot of time to convert a particular video.
As of now, I'm using XiliSoft Video Converter.
I'm having D930 CPU. It is taking 200 mins to convert a video file of 2 hr length.
And the funny part here is, the video itself is 700mb. But I'm converting it to 900mb video (but still the quality is reduced) and it takes a lot of time and CPU energy.
If only there was a player to crop/zoom aspect ratio or a converter that just crops the aspect ratio, I CAN SKIP the HOURS of video conversion on my PC.
Help me out guys!!!!
Edit: BTW, if there is any such player to zoom aspect ratio, it'd be great if it plays all kinds of formats like our default player does.
Edit2: Tried Act1 Video Player. Didn't Help. There is an option to crop, but didn't work on SGS
currently i'm using mVideoPlayer, i've not been able to find a better one at this time
i know exactly what you mean, i watch a lot of foreign videos on my phone and sometimes the source aspect ratio is just not encoded properly, if you put it all full screen it looks weird, if you leave it as it, it also looks weird
a good video player software supporting subtitles files and option to control the video aspect ratio would do wonders
the first video i put on mine that was 2 hours was chup chup ke ....im sure you know that one haha sounds like your putting some long bollywood films on there.
BTW, act1video player is cool in cropping and zooming. They've got that option, but it doesn't work on galaxy s as of now
Hope they ll fix this issue soon
Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7458822
my only concern with the SGS's Video player & mVideoplayer is that the fast forward/rewind is slow. when you ff a video using the time line, it'll take a few seconds to play.
This became a concern when I was defending my SGS against my friend's iFAG4. We used the same Avatar Video that i downloaded, when my friend ff/rewind the video on his iFAG4, we can see every frame while moving the timeline and immediately plays the video.
Pre-cropping the video on your pc is a no-go for you, since you will always have to re-encode it as well. Still, if you have no better options, I'd recommend Virtualdub for the job.
still no solution?
Thanks by advance guys!
Best program out there for video conversion!
http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/
unbelievable!
I give up!
If u guys at XDA have no answer, then there is no vid player for android that can crop. period!
when i watch movies on galaxy s2, the movie is a little strip of film between two huge black bars.
stretching wouldn't work in this case, coz people would look like they are falling into a black hole throughout the movie
core player and other players did a beautiful job in WM6.5! and wm6.5 is considered a fossil when compared to androids latest (like gingerbread).
makes u wonder... why does android have more than 200 million users...
In fact.... I really cannot understand why android is continuously loaded up with tons of potentially wonderful features, but all the users are punctually pissed off by poor implementations that make these features pointless.
Sadly, I'm starting to think that android is just an OS for "surprising friends" rather than an OS intended for actually enjoying your device.
Still searching for a player to crop the aspect ratio of a video.
mVideoplayer and ACT 1 video player has the option to crop to zoom. But both doesn't work Galaxy S
I use mVideoplayer with my SGS, and the crop/zoom options worked fine with Froyo 2.2.1.
After the 2.3.3 update, mVideoplayer is unable to zoom. Only stretching is possible, of course with black bars and wrong aspect ratio.
Foxreal Video Converter may help
Hello, you guys!I have find something that may help--Foxreal Video Converter.I have tried the free trial version,it wors like a charm!Something on their website:
Play video on iPad 2, iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 5, iPod Touch 4, Droid X , Galaxy S, Motorola Xoom , Nook Color, Nexus S, HTC phones.
Support rich video formats like TiVo, VP6, MXF, MTS, M2TS, MOD, etc.
Edit HD and SD video with powerful editing functions.
Perfect audio and video sync technology and NVIDIA CUDA technology.
Hope it work for you too!
thanx for the attempt bro, but no thanx.
this is not a solution. it's not even a workaround. the device itself is still not cropping anything.
we wanna throw any vid in there and play with the right aspect ratio, without any bars, making use of ALL of the screen. simple.
You may try Asoftech video converter which helped me before, download from: Windows video converter
hope this helps.
Umyd said:
I give up!
If u guys at XDA have no answer, then there is no vid player for android that can crop. period!
when i watch movies on galaxy s2, the movie is a little strip of film between two huge black bars.
stretching wouldn't work in this case, coz people would look like they are falling into a black hole throughout the movie
core player and other players did a beautiful job in WM6.5! and wm6.5 is considered a fossil when compared to androids latest (like gingerbread).
makes u wonder... why does android have more than 200 million users...
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Haven't you ever heard of the app MX Player? It can do exactly what you are thriving for here. Try it.
Hello guys, I wanted to ask you something.
When I go to watch a downloaded video, in 720p on my dual is not in full screen.
Some video, while others have black bars above and below .. you can remove them, perhaps changing player?
thank you very much!
it all depends on the format that the video was encoded in. (panscan, letterbox, ...) On most videos you can push the double windows icon and on most of mine if i do stretch or crop it will almost always make full screen. This does not come without draw backs though. Cutting some of the picture our or stretching somethings out of ratio. This is the same issues you can have when watching DVD or BlueRays on a tv. Hope that helps you some.