Finally MilkVR added a button inside the player to adjust movie type without renaming the file, all types are supported, with much more abilities added!
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The galaxy tab manages to play back most videos, so converting is hardly ever needed. However, it doesn't seem to work with videos containing FLAC, DTS or OGG audio.
So anyway, i'm trying to find a way to batch convert files while copying over the video stream. Instead of wasting 10-15 minutes converting each video, each file could be done in less than a minute as only the audio would be converted.
Has anyone figured out a way to do this?
So far I've checked out Handbrake & MeGUI + a few more, but with no luck
Demux audio with YAMB, convert to 2ch aac, remux new audio with YAMB. Done in ~30 mins or less
Give Avidemux a try. can copy video, while recoding audio to differing container formats such as mkv,mp4, avi etc. Linux/Mac/BSD/Win versions available. I've used it frequently for converting the audio portions of files for playback on my xbox360.
Thanks will give those a try!
Still would prefer a batch way of doing it though >.<
Handbrake has a batch mode - just add the items to the queue by clicking "Add to Queue.
Don't know if you can set it to ignore any video processing - but with the queue how long it takes doesn't matter much, just let it run overnight with however many jobs you have.
Nevermind, I found a free program called Xmedia recode that does it very well
So I downloaded the Transformers movie that came with the nexus 7. I also looked into copying that file over to my desktop for viewing on the big screen. Well it worked, I was able to copy it view WiFi file explorer, and when opened in VLC it played. However it did not seem to fully work. I couldn't drag the slider to skip ahead.
I'm guessing VLC would handle the video much better if it were in a file type it understood. Currently its a .wvm I searched google for a converter but only got results for .wmv converters.
Anyone know a converter? Any idea's why its a rather unique video file type?
This might do better in the Q/A section. I planned to post it there, must have clicked general by mistake.
If you press ctrl-J in vlc it brings up information, its encoded as an H264 mpeg-4 basically a standard mp4 video.
wvm could just be a different container google use for DRM, I can only play the first 10 seconds in vlc then it stops. Handbrake recognizes it but it only encodes the first 10 seconds.
Ok, I've made a nice animation, resulting in numbered PNG files. I'm able to merge them into a video file with VirtualDub and save to AVI. Then I changed the container to MP4. The file shows up in 360 videos but does not playback (you stay in space with the stars around you).
Now I've tried many different compression settings, even different codecs (although h264 should work) but no matter what I try, it doesnt work. The only way I can get it to playback is by uploading it to Youtube and downloading it again. However Youtube applied super compression and the resulting file looks pretty bad.
Please have a look at my file and tell me what I'm doing wrong .. (this is a very short version because I was getting memory errors with large files)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6932160/TestAnim05.mp4
Any help much appreciated
Is there subtitle support in MilkVR? Any special subtitle file naming, etc? Oculus Video has it but shows an asterix instead of some regional characters. BTW, MilkVR is better than Oculus VOID IMHO.
civciv said:
Is there subtitle support in MilkVR? Any special subtitle file naming, etc? Oculus Video has it but shows an asterix instead of some regional characters. BTW, MilkVR is better than Oculus VOID IMHO.
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At this time the spec says one video track and one audio track in mp4 or mov containers only. Almost any over/under, side by side, 360, 3D, 2D etc. video is supported either directly or by sideload. But they are making the app better every update so who knows what the future will hold.
I originaly made this in the S7 section so i hope that the ops delete that one.
There are alot of guides around for converting movie files so they can be played back on S7/Gear VR some of them might actualy work but ive noticed that alot of the guides forgets to mention the audio output when they convert they only tell you about the video so to remedy this ill write down my experience..
1. Most guides tell you correcly about the video formats
2. Most guides don´t tell you that AC-3 won´t work. Only AAC and MP3 works.
3. First i thought avidemux would be perfect but apparently it cant read the complete audiostream on the files iv´e tested with no matter what audio settings i used in avidemux the output file ended up without speech.
4. So. Download ffmpeg
5. Put your video file in the ffmpeg\bin folder or add a path to the environment variable.
6. Open a cmd in your ffmpeg\bin folder and paste this line
ffmpeg -i YOURFILENAME.mkv -c:v copy -c:a aac OUTPUTFILENAME.ACC.mkv
7. After the conversion is done the output file should play correctly on your S7/Gear VR
8. Last note i have only tested this with movies that have an AC3 stream but it should work for other audio streams.
A little followup 1..
I thought it was a hazzle to install Emby or any other dnla client and milkvrlauncher just to watch local media in milkvr(And im not even supposed to have access to milkvr for that matter..) so i went the easy way and simply installed Abyss webserver added the mkv file extension and added my media files to the htdoc folder and now i simply open the local web adress in the samsung internet browser and it lists all the files and folders i have in the htdoc folder and i can can watch what ever file i put in the htdoc folder.
A little followup 2..
If you Install Milk VR and then Milkvrlauncher you can get the weblinks to open in Milk VR.
jorgen_gustavsson said:
I originaly made this in the S7 section so i hope that the ops delete that one.
There are alot of guides around for converting movie files so they can be played back on S7/Gear VR some of them might actualy work but ive noticed that alot of the guides forgets to mention the audio output when they convert they only tell you about the video so to remedy this ill write down my experience..
1. Most guides tell you correcly about the video formats
2. Most guides don´t tell you that AC-3 won´t work. Only AAC and MP3 works.
3. First i thought avidemux would be perfect but apparently it cant read the complete audiostream on the files iv´e tested with no matter what audio settings i used in avidemux the output file ended up without speech.
4. So. Download ffmpeg
5. Put your video file in the ffmpeg\bin folder or add a path to the environment variable.
6. Open a cmd in your ffmpeg\bin folder and paste this line
ffmpeg -i YOURFILENAME.mkv -c:v copy -c:a aac OUTPUTFILENAME.ACC.mkv
7. After the conversion is done the output file should play correctly on your S7/Gear VR
8. Last note i have only tested this with movies that have an AC3 stream but it should work for other audio streams.
A little followup 1..
I thought it was a hazzle to install Emby or any other dnla client and milkvrlauncher just to watch local media in milkvr(And im not even supposed to have access to milkvr for that matter..) so i went the easy way and simply installed Abyss webserver added the mkv file extension and added my media files to the htdoc folder and now i simply open the local web adress in the samsung internet browser and it lists all the files and folders i have in the htdoc folder and i can can watch what ever file i put in the htdoc folder.
A little followup 2..
If you Install Milk VR and then Milkvrlauncher you can get the weblinks to open in Milk VR.
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A little followup 3..
You can make a batch file and save it to the folder were your media files are.
Add this line in the bat file and save it in the media folder.
for %%a in ("*.mkv") do ffmpeg -i "%%a" -c:v copy -c:a aac "FOLDER_WERE_THE_CONVERTED_FILES_SHOULD_BE_SAVED\%%~na.mkv"
pause
Save it and when you run the bat file it will convert all files in the folder.