i cant seem to play it on any player. wm. tcpmp. divx. its a .avi file and its 3.3 gigs. when i try on divx i wait...then a fatal error "memory not allocated". whn i try on wm it skips it and goes to the transformer movie..and when on tcpmp, i look for the file, but it thinks its a folder and whwn i open it theres nothin is the file too big? thanks
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basicz said:
i cant seem to play it on any player. wm. tcpmp. divx. its a .avi file and its 3.3 gigs. when i try on divx i wait...then a fatal error "memory not allocated". whn i try on wm it skips it and goes to the transformer movie..and when on tcpmp, i look for the file, but it thinks its a folder and whwn i open it theres nothin is the file too big? thanks
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You really should encode it down to "Phone Size"
All mine run around 400 to 600 meg for full movies at phone quality, there are a lot of .mp4 converters floating around the forum ....
That file size is just too big for the phone .. only has 576meg of ram after all ... would be hard playing a file that big on a PC with only that much ram ....
Coreplayer plays everything no probs for me
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Coreplayer plays everything no probs for me
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You can play 3 gig files with coreplayer?? Great... but Coreplayer is commercial, rather re-encode than pay for it ...
I have this same issue. It's not a RAM issue as someone stated probably since the entirety of the video is not loaded into RAM when you play, it is streamed into RAM from disk.
I was thinking perhaps a FAT32 issue but the max file size is 4GB for FAT32. Any other takers on why this happens? You can only transcode down a LOTR Extended movie down so much before you lose quality overall.
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hi i was just wandering if this is a common problem.
i was trying to play a movie (lord of the rings) on my oda.
i have a 256 mb sd card, the movie files were less than 200 mb each.
they transfer to the device wityh no problem just takes for ever...anyways . when i try to play them in my pda nothiing happens not even a error message!!!!! just a black screen, HELP!!!
i try using Divix, windows media player, and pockettv to no results same thing for all of them, i have player other movies much shorter in size with out a problem is there a limit to how big a file can play on the device.....
when i want to copy video files over to my xda i do so using active sync and wen i go to open it the file comes up as a file that cant b read by any program, what do i have to do in order for it to play video?
Hi,
which player do you use? Video Files (.mpg or .mpeg) are best played by Pocket TV, available at www.pocketTV.com, .avi files by wmp
Regards
Ron
thanks for replying i try .mpeg video and have windows media that came with it, i have seen pocket tv advertised if i were to get it wot one would i use?
I have been toying around with this video-watching for some time now and in the end the problem is always the size of the files. It is simply impossible to fit a whole movie in mpeg or divx on a storage-card, even if you ha a 512MB one. So what i´ve been doing lately is to convert movies into wmv format with the windows media encoder, which is free downloadable on the microsoft website. You can set the framerate down to 15 fps and the streaming rate to 150 kbps and the movie will still run relatively smooth. And the resolution must of course be set to 320X240. With that you will have files with a size of about 1 MB/minute of film. Of course it takes some time to convert the file, but with 2.8MHz not longer then a little over half an hour per movie.
i can get a 320x240 2 hour film in divx format into 185mb :|
running at 30fps at 250kbs
so i dont see what everyones probs with vids are? :shock:
@ gazzaman
what program do u use to edit doen the videosize to 320 x 240 ?
virtual Dub
www.dvdhelp.com
also guides how to do it can be found here:
http://www.pocketmatrix.com/guides/compression/
follow the convert to divx one
gaz
gazzaman,
what's the quality like when playing videos?
I assume you've got an xda I?
Thanks.
good higly watchable just as good as the normal source video just only dithering on though as te screen is only 4096colours.
i havent got my xda no more waiting for expansys to release the MDA 2
gaz
Hello!
I got a question. has someone had troubles playing flv files on wm6 with tcpmp. whatever flv plugin i find and install , tcpmp tells me
Video Codec ( ) not supported by player
any experience?
thanks for the help.
quasimonto
there is no one who has an idea what could be wrong? no hint? nothing?
so far i was able to get some sound, but still i got a black screen with flv videos. the same programs and plugins under wm5 where working perfectly.. since i swapped to wm6 it stopped to do so..
Problem with flv on TCPMP
I've have the same problem can't play flv after installing plugin on WM6. After I tried copy the 2 plugin files into the TCPMP program directory and it play flv file no problem.
I've just upgraded my XDA2 to WM6 using C_Shekhar ROM thank you, its fast so far I've no problem with it. Its only the 1st day.
re-encode the file
some of the flv files are really not playable with TCPMP but others are playable, in that case, I re-encode the file so it will now be playable. Less worries!
I have sound and black screen
Has any one got an answer for the black screen with WM6 ? I have sound though. Thanks
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Has any one got an answer for the black screen with WM6 ? I have sound though. Thanks
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i have exactly the same, on WM5, HTC Universal. No picture, but only sound.
pls, help us!
DOMy
nesty24 said:
some of the flv files are really not playable with TCPMP but others are playable, in that case, I re-encode the file so it will now be playable. Less worries!
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Sorry to bump an old thread but this is the exact issue Im having with my FLV files. Ones from youtube will play fine in TCPMP but from other sources, I just get the black screen or the player will give the error "Video Codec ( ) not supported by player" as described in the first post.
You mentioned re-encoding the file. Can you please explain how you do that?
Problem with flv on TCPMP
Hii, I'm new here...
I've sound and blackscreen, too, run FLV on TCPMP.
But I change in option>video>ATI IMAGEON
Run perfect but sometimes screen splash, and I push quick in panel "Play" on TCPMP then stop and back to normal.
I guess problem in VGA driver that support flash video.
Is anybody help this problem?
Lucky Luke
flv problems in TCPMP
i had the exact same problem vith my TCPMP... the sollution is simple -
in the player Option>Video>DirectDraw
solved the problem for me... i can now plaz all flv files, at least so far... iwe tried 10 videos untill now and no problem hope i helped
The same here on wm6.1, I had problems playing flv
Hello there Community,
I have been reading alot of these forums and on the web.
Atm using Energy 26june 23569 with 2.10.50.28_2 (best for me).
Now i want to convert some VOB (Dvd) movies/files to the best suitable extention to play fullscreen on the HD2 (i can for example make .wmv with moviemaker).
The problem is, when i convert a file of 100MB to MP4 642*480 i CAN watch them fullscreen in the default CAMvidplayer (dunno how its named), without any problem .. but when i code a vid to 1.5gb mp4, it hangs on video, and only plays sound.
Hope someone can help me with this and give me a few good instructions/links to do so.
Dont know if this topic is in the right forum though, sorry if it isnt.
Thanks!
Azerox
Thread moved to Q&A.
Please post there if you have a question in the future.
Mark.
Ahh sorry, stupid of me i didnt even see the Q&A
there is a program called mp4hd mate it was made for the original HD but there is an extra file with it to add settings for hd2 give that a try its here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478050
I always split fulllenght movies into 2 parts, cause file above 1.5g
tend to have hiccups every 5-10min (5sec freeze).
But i never have a full picture freeze.
What bitrate are you using?
What codec are you using?
I use h264 codec around 1600kb.
Get your hands on a program called Coreplayer.
And as for converting, try to convert to 800 by 480 as that is the devices resolution. Anything below will become choppy, above isn't bad but it may cause stuttering during playback.
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there is a program called mp4hd mate it was made for the original HD but there is an extra file with it to add settings for hd2 give that a try its here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478050
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Ill try it, thanks
MartijnMM said:
I always split fulllenght movies into 2 parts, cause file above 1.5g
tend to have hiccups every 5-10min (5sec freeze).
But i never have a full picture freeze.
What bitrate are you using?
What codec are you using?
I use h264 codec around 1600kb.
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Same qeustion here
Wish it can be fullscreen
I've sucessfully converted several videos and full length movies to mp4 to play on my hd2 using VLC, I noticed though it's important to make sure to select a maximum resolution of 720p. Still looks good on the screen, plays full screen and no stutters or freezes. Hope that helps.
I use "Any video Converter", for all my devices, here are a few reasons why I like it...
It's really easy to trim off the beginning and the ending of videos in the apps built in player to make the videos shorter and smaller.
Remember's my custom settings
Choose my Frame Rate, Video Bitrate, Video Framerate.
Many settings with the audio choices.
Can Place multiple files to convert one after the other.
It's free and they keep updating it regularly.
Video Conversion
I used "Format Factory" to convert some AVIs for the HD2. Not only do they play now they play in HTC's video player just like Transformers. Different settings and a few different resolutions and they all seem to play just fine...
"Format Factory" is free and a small download.
Vectre
Hey guys,I've been reading a lot about how well the GS2 plays movies/videos,but I haven't found an answer to this.Can it play files larger than 2gigs?My Desire HD plays 720p mp4's flawlessly(almost) unless the file size is more than 2 gigs.In that case it won't even open thw file.
Any answer appreciated as 9/10 of the movies I have are high quality 720p and 1080p matroska files to play on my PS3,not some 700kbps ****-quality 500megs file.
Thanks!
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
It can play anything up to 4GB, but the file system wont allow you to transfer a file larger than 4GB. If you have some 8GB mkv files you will need to split them somehow.
It's not the file size that's important, although FAT32 has a limit of 4gb for a single file you can split a file up. It's the bitrate that's important, and so far the Galaxy s2 has played everything I've thrown at it, including very high bitrate 1080p files. It's perfect for video playback.
You can use MKV toolnix to split MKV files. It'll only take a few minutes since all it does is demux, split and remux the file. Since you're using MKV files i'm assuming you're tech savvy enough to navigate the GUI. It's pretty simple.
I won't quote because my multi-quote doesn't feel like working the last few days.
So,thank you all guys for your answers.
@jgittins
I know there is the fat32 limitation,wouldn't be around if I didn't! Splitting the videos is easy,reencoding is a pain in the ass(3-7 hours on my PC ).
@RXP
Bitrate,withing some sane limits at least,wasn't a problem for the DHD either.I encode a high profile 720p video clip from Avenged Sevenfold(I'm a big fan ) which lasts some 4 minutes and it plays heavenly.I use exactly the same settings for a movie(That turns out about 3.5 gigs) and it won't play.I use lower quality(not only bitrate) so that it turns out to be just less than 2 gigs(by chance at that time) and it plays really good.I then,out of curiosity,split the 3.5 gigs file to two equal sized files and it plays super smooth too!So the problem is a 2 gig limit on the DHD.As long as there is no such thing on SGS2 I'm extra fine,as the DHD will need reencoding nontheless,it can't play mkv's.
@Sticks02
Geek is my middle name pal!
Thanks,I'll try that and see how it goes.Even if I can't use it at first I'll eventually do it(I learn really easily ).