Hello, i just bought a new HTC 7 Mozart and tried uploading some videos to it via zune. They were around 60mb in size, 24 minutes in length and with a resolution of 720x-something. They don't seem as really high-quality when i play them from my computer, but when i play it on my phone, the picture is filled with green squares and during faster movements the screen is completely green with a few squares showing something else. What kind of encoding and format should i use to play videos on my phone as those 2 were .mp4 files, mpeg-4 encoding, 624x352 , 23fps, 299kbps data rate and 332 kbps bitrate.***
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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
how come videos run all like juddery when i play them through media player and divx, is it because i have only 64 mb of memory?
More likely that the resolution of the video is too much for the processor and memory to handle. Try finding a tool to convert the video to the same resolution as the XDA's screen or less. Other than that, make sure nothing else is using up system memory.
I have just been watching a Red Dwarf episode I encoded in DivX format for my XDA (which is only 32MB) and it runs perfectly with good video and audio quality.
Follow this guide to encode your videos : http://pocketmatrix.com/guides/dvd2divx/
If your running WM2003 get this DivX player : http://www.wincesoft.de/PocketMVP_for_WM2003_v08r072703.exe else get the one linked in the guide.
To get the best playback speed, start the DivX player on your PPC and select Settings > Configure, then tick the keep alive box, and the enable cache box. Then on the cache size slider turn it up to around 3MB (approx 1/5th of the way of the slider working from the left)
Your should now be able to play your movies with no jerkyness
Disclaimer: only had a Droid phone for 3 days now so bare with me
Short version: No matter what player I use (stock, vplayer, QQplayer, Moboplayer) nor what video file I attempt to play (WMV, AVI, MP4, MPG, ASX) I get horrible fps....I mean like 1 frame a second....it stutters really bad.
Details:
I am running CM7's latest ROM (Android v2.3.4).
I have just about every option I can find set for performance (no animations, updating widgets, max CPU set to 710 MHz, all other programs closed).
SD card is a Class 4 rated 8 GB card.
Video files range from 5 MB to 100 MB and are not resized for mobile device play. They are native 800x400+ resolution.
Now, I am new to Android coming from a Windows Mobile device and I am used to TCPMP just playing whatever I threw at it without any issue or special conversion....and it was on a slower card and slower processor than what the Eris is.
Is there something I am missing to get this to work? Is it the ROM or do I need to down-convert all the video files for the native resolution of the phone?
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
the only way i get my videos to play smoothly on my phone is to convert them to 480x320 with a vid bitrate ~700kb, 25f/s, with an mp4 container and x264 codec, and regualr 128 aac audio... played with Meridian Media Player. kind of a hassle but im pleased with the results...
Thanks for the clarification and settings to shoot for conversions.
Does anyone know if the 1+ GHz Android phones work without converting videos to a more native resolution and frame rate? Ironically, it seems I was a little spoiled with Windows Mobile playing them without issue with TCPMP.
Hi there, I was having some video lagness and playback problem since 2.1 stock rom. I though the incoming 2.3 will help in solving this problem but yet even the performance and speed is greatly improved in 2.3, this problem remains, so I try to seek for some helps regarding this problem here.
There is a weird problem during my video playback, I had put in several types of video ranging from 800*680 to 1920*1080, with different format (mp4, avi, wmv, rmvb) and had serious lagging on certain video. From here I am just going to list out 3 examples of video that have playback issue:
Player used to play these video: default mediascape (2.1), default media player (2.3), mobo player
Location of these video: SD Card (Class 4 16GB, write speed 5mb, read speed 11mb from SDTOOL)
Video A
Size: 1gb
Frame Rate: 23-25
Rate: 0??
Resolution: 1280*720
File Type: mkv
Problem: Heavily lagging and scene freezing as well as unsynchronised audio and video playback. The audio is always faster than the video. At 2.3 firmware, mobo player able to play the video but without audio. When choosing soft-decoding, the video start to lag and audio process faster than video
Video B
Size: 33mb
Frame Rate: 29-30
Rate: 3000
Resolution: 852*480
File Type: wmv
Problem: Lagging when playing video. Screen freezing and frame skipped as the video progress as the playing seems like to maintain video and audio synchronization, video back to normal at last 10 second
Video C
Size: 97mb
Frame Rate: 29-30
Rate (in mobo player): 2398
Resolution: 1280/720
File Type: f4v
Problem: Almost the same as above, video freezing and lagging behind the audio. In 2.1 mobo player able to play it directly but in 2.3 soft decoding is required before playing this video
Is this type of problem occurred due to hardware constraints or software problem? What is the actual constraint on video type/format that x10 can support? I heard from lot people saying their device able to play 720P HD video fine but it is not the case in my device? Please help me on this issue and do let me know if I miss out some informations
Sorry for bringing this post up, help is needed >.<
Or these video need to convert to suit in x10 spec to play smoothly?
Hi,
I'm trying to make MP4 files from my DVD archive to play on NT. I'm using MeGUI and I have been through that process a number of time for my PC. However, the problem I have with NT is that it seems it cannot playback 16:9 or other wide formats that have non-square pixels correctly: during playback, it shrinks the video to display it with square pixels. No need to say that the same files play correctly on a PC or other devices (Xbox 360, network media player, etc.).
One solution is to resize the video during encoding. I tried that with HandBrake (couldn't figure it out in MeGUI though) and encoded a PAL 16:9 video (in the standard 720x576 pixels forat) into an MP4 file with 1024x576 pixels. It worked and NT played the file beautifully. Still this process is less than ideal as it reduces the overall quality and wastes space.
Is there any way to keep the original video resolution and still make NT to play it correctly? Also it would be great to know how to do that with MeGUI (HandBrake is fine but misses a few critical features compared to MeGUI).
Thanks,
AlefSin