Is it something I'm missing or can we not play drm video files on the atrix?
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are you asking about playing files that still have DRM protection intact? Did you really expect it to? You would need an app that has the right DRM privileges to play them. What exactly are you trying to play?
Can't play movies/videos downloaded from iTunes even though you paid for them.
They will sync over, but not play.
Sorry - was a bit brief
Was posting from my phone so didn't explain enough there...
I have a DVD with DRM digital content. I activated it with Windows Media Player on my PC so it plays just fine there. I then went to try and sync the file to get it over to my phone but WMP just comes back and says the phone doesn't support DRM.
Followed some directions here:
http://tsukata.org/2010/08/31/how-to-use-playsforsure-droidx/
Says it works on some phones and not others. Looks like you need "PlaysforSure" and I was just wondering if anyone had any experience with that yet on thier Atrix.
If it's not possible, then I'm looking for suggestions on the best way/settings/program to port a DVD over to my phone.
Android supports some DRM schemes, but not the MS WMA/V formats. "PlaysForSure" is also a MS format which you'll never see on Android devices.
There are plenty of ways for ripping DVDs (and BDs now for that matter) to the PC (ignoring any bonus 'Digital Copy' discs). From there you can reencode and transfer it all you want. Not all methods are easy to use, and in any case that's not a topic for this forum .. Google is your friend (DVD ripping and transcoding would be good search terms to start with).
Now, a more relevant question (which I haven't gotten to researching myself yet) would be:
- What file formats does Android in general, and the ATRIX in particular, support out of the box?
- What other formats can be played by installing third-party players or codecs?
DVDFab is a great program I use to rip my blu-rays since the included digital copies have incompatible DRM Schemes. The nice thing about that app is that it works with Nvidia Cuda which uses the graphics card to help transcode the video. I just select the iPhone setting and the videos look great on my Atrix coming off of blu-rays. (have not tried it with any dvds as I did not pruchase the dvd portion of it).
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I wonder what program/codec pack I should use to be able to watch the films that I watch on my computer. On my PC I use Media Player Classic with K-lite codec pack and I can watch mostly all film formats, including .flv and stuff. On my HTC I can hardly watch anything. I currently have Core Media Player and Windows media Player on my phone. What do I miss?
Thanks!
Mne
Try This...
I've used this for over a year now. It's not designed specifically for the Rose, but it works - that's all that matters!
Set the output resolution to VGA (640x480) and they will play fine. You can play the converted videos with HTC Album, no special codecs, or additional software required. I use it to converted .avi and .flv, but I'm sure it will convert a lot more than just those two formats
On my S710 (not tried on my S740) I use PocketTV Classic (free one) or TCPMP (Core Media Player) depending on the file type. Either is 100x better than Windows Media Player for any video I've tried but as grahamkdt pointed out you should use a utility to convert the source videos to a phone-friendly format: type (diff compression types require more or less CPU usage & may only work with certain players), resolution (pref match your screen res) and bit-rates that your media & phone can keep up so it's not choppy. Once you optimize video files & try a few players you should be able to get some pretty decent playback on a Rose considering I was able to on my old S710 which has a lot less power.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=636423 this is the tcpmp build i use for some months, the best one i tried, i hate converting videos but this plays most my videos without needing any conversion
Elusivo said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=636423 this is the tcpmp build i use for some months, the best one i tried, i hate converting videos but this plays most my videos without needing any conversion
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Cool thanks, hadn't seen that version.
As far as converting, why make your phone work harder than it has to & waste a ton of space on your storage card when you can just spend a few minutes converting videos to optimize for your phone? Especially with super fast computers these days it doesn't take a few seconds to a few minutes now. Of course you wouldn't convert in certain circumstances (like if the original wasn't very hi-res to start with) especially if you're only going to watch it once & delete to free up space but if you plan to keep it why not shrink it down and have it play even smoother? Besides they copy over usb or onto flash a lot faster when they're smaller. Plus not sure any phone can handle HD let alone blueray yet and who'd waste the space if it could.
haha yes i know bill, but in my case, unfortunately, i suffer from a serious case of laziness and procrastination so i just can't really be bothered with getting more programs and go through all the work to convert stuff, i dun even convert the ones that i want but can't watch on the mobile lol those that i want but can't i just watch them on the computer and curse my mobile with some nasty words
I did a "digital download" of a DVD to my PC, and then copied the .wmv file over to the /Android/data folder. The tablet recognizes the file (when I pull up the videos screen), but when I try and play, I get a "Media Error: Sorry, cannot play this video" message.
I'm brand new to the Tablet, so I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know what...
Thanks in advance!
Brian
Most digital downloads from DVDs are DRM proteced. These can only be played on "official" Microsoft codecs, usually found on Windows XP, Vista, Seven, and OSX. You're pobbly out of luck.
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Most digital downloads from DVDs are DRM proteced. These can only be played on "official" Microsoft codecs, usually found on Windows XP, Vista, Seven, and OSX. You're pobbly out of luck.
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Hmmm.... We've downloaded similar movies to the Ipod Touch... clearly not a windows product.
Quite unfortunate if "digital downloads" cannot be played on the tablet.
I won't say they all have DRM but many do. Googling "drm wmv" should give you some ideas as to how to deteremine if this is the case.
Thanks so much for your help!
Brian
WMV File
I had a WMV video that would not play on my Windows 7 PC with Windows Media Player.
It would play using DIV-X and some other movie players. I happen to have Camtasia Studio and I opened the file in Camtasia and created a new WMV file (took about two hours to complete). Much to my surprise the New WMV file created with Camtasia would now run fine on the New Windows 7 machine with Windows Media Player.
Just for fun, I copied the new WMV file over to the G Tablet and it played fine.
My guess is this is hit or miss depending on how the original file was created (I think this file was created with an old version of Window's Movie Maker in around 2007). Something else that is strange to me is the old movie format would play on Windows Vista but not on Windows 7.
Additional on the OP's question. You can check for DRM protection by clicking on the file properties in Windows explorer. There's a "protected content" statement, in one of the tabs. For WMA/WMV files, it should be able to tell you if it's protected or not.
If you had gotten it from Amazon, or from a DVD digital download, it is most likely infected with DRM.
Download rockplayer. Works for my phone. Should work for tablet as well
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I tried rock player but told me could not use hardware playback. When i tried software decoding I got large pixelated video not distinguishable. Please advise.
Sounds like DRM to me. I haven't used a WMV on my tab yet but I assume it will with RockPlayer.
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where is s flood place to download free movies for the gtab?
DRM protected videos can't playback on most devices, you must remove the DRM protection, but it seems there is no free tool to handle it
DRM protected videos can't playback on most devices, you must remove the DRM protection, but it seems there is no free tool to handle it
Download DVDFab HD Decrypter and use it to rip the video from the original DVD, then use Freemake Video Converter to encode it to the format of your choice. I use 960x540 res, original frame rate, bit rate of 1280 for the video and sample rate 44000, bit rate 128kbps for the audio... works great on my EVO 3D. Will test this when I get the G-Tab in the next few days.
This may be an issue of the codec used. There are lots of codecs out there and the extension doesn't always indicate one particular codec. Depending on the program I am using to create a video I can select different codecs for the same fle type. Though divx is pretty much a mpeg4 codec, so is some of the Windows Media Video files. I have found even on the PC I have to dowload and install a codec "super pac" in order to play al the various files I come in contact with even though they may have the same extensions. Most of your players include a number of codecs to play the files they support. In windows nce the codec is installed for one player it most likely will be recognized by another. I really have no idea if this is the case with Android, or Linux, but from what I have seen it may be entirely dependant on the player.
I'm trying to convert some files into formats that can be easily read by the Flyer's stock software. Maybe this is a pipedream, but I thought I'd ask.
Video:
We know that some formats are possible, and others are not (specifically .mkv seems to be a problem at 1080p). I have DVD's that I'd like to rip to .avi (perhaps .mp4 is better). I followed youtube directions at youtube.com/watch?v=R5fsz3TWuFk and that format isn't able to be played. Other AVI files are. Something about that is written here (forums.streamingmedia.com/thread-11192-post-12576.html) but I couldn't figure out what they were suggesting. Is it possible to get the movies I make into HTC Watch, or can I only watch them though the "Connected Media" app? If I need to use .mp4, can anyone recommend a good free file converter?
Books:
Similar story. I got .epub to work, but only on some files (converting from .pdf, .lit, .doc).
Music:
I use .mp3, so everything there works perfectly, but others might have questions.
I am in a similar boat. It is difficult to choose and manage which programs to use. I think both Google and HTC are great but HTC Reader doesn't sync with Google Books and the same with HTC and Google Music. I enjoy sense but also enjoy cloud services. Hopefully in the future HTC with sync with these cloud services and not have their own separate services.
I can 100% confirm that the HTC Flyer can support XviD in the avi container and h.264 in the mp4 container. Of course max resolution the device can support is 720p
Download and install Handbrake - easy to use, yet powerful encoding software.
This can be a complicated subject so, please read the post before deciding to commit to an answer or response since it's so easy to just say "Well, install this app and you're golden" which - at least at this moment as I'm typing this - is an impossible situation since no such app exists (and I swear, if I could code one up I would but I have effectively nil coding/programming skills).
And this is a long post too so, please, don't crap it with the tl;dr style responses. I'm not the only person this info or a potential app could benefit, there are many many people looking for exactly what I'm asking about. Could even be some money in the project if anyone cares to potentially create such an app, given the constraints and requirements. That's all covered in the main post below, so thanks for taking the time to read even these first two paragraphs.
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Ok, the question basically is this: what is the difficulty in creating an Android-based video player - one that works obviously on Android-powered devices - that can read embedded subs of some kind, be it ASS/SUB/SRT, or even VobSub (hey, I'm just tossing it out there) streams in video files, most notably MP4 containers and yes MKV as well?
I've always been curious as to why it seems - that's it seems to be an extraordinarily difficult thing to accomplish. And just for the record, here's why I ask:
My Wife is deaf, has been since birth, and she does love watching her movies and TV shows (from our rather-too-damned-large DVD collection) but because she's deaf the process of getting videos encoded in a portable format (easy to do with HandBrake, like point-click-encode-done) but also being able to include/encode the subs (or even the CC/closed captions) into the files instead of having to go through all the trouble of locating an ASS/SUB/SRT file to accompany that video.
Now, I understand subs, captions, ASS/SUB/SRT/etc formats quite well. I've been using HandBrake and many many other video encoding tools for the better part of 2 decades now (seriously, but that means video compression and encoding of many different kinds over the years, not just HandBrake, etc - I know it hasn't been around that long, or most other tools we commonly use - I mean my experience with digital video formats), but to this day there's just nothing for Android that can read embedded subtitle streams of any kind and if anyone can say why I'd sure love to know.
I'm not asking from the perspective of "GOD DAMMIT WHY CAN'T SOMEONE DO THIS?!?!?!" so please, don't take it offensively - I'm asking because I seriously want to know what the difficulty is. I've got several "How to" types of books about Android, several beginner's books for learning how to create Android apps, etc (hit up a B&N recently with a few hundred bucks in gift certificates I had and grabbed a handful of various Android development/programming books because I believe it's a damned good OS only getting better).
I'm not saying I'll ever be the one that cracks this particular problem, of course, but if anyone can point out or give me some nugget to start with on why it seems (again with the seems thing) to be so damned tough to do. If there was just one video player out there - and right now my hands down favorite is MX Video Player, free on the Market, and pretty awesome overall - that could read subs embedded in MP4/MKV containers I swear, I'd physically stand up from this chair and jump for joy, I kid you not.
But anyway... I've been doing the typical (and only method I'm aware of) process of ripping a DVD to the hard drive, encoding to a format my devices can handle (I chose a somewhat future proof resolution of 800 pixels wide (I own an HTC HD2 so that's native, and the vertical resolution is dependent on the video aspect ratio, with AAC audio, using h.264 encoding for the video stream) and embed the subs inside the container (my container of choice for the HD2 is MP4), but of course nothing can ever read the subs.
Which means that another step is required: the long somewhat tedious task of using a tool like DVDSubEdit to "rip" the sub images and then do OCR on them which is pretty much never ever even close to being accurate, which means more time spent fixing up all the booboos in the OCR text, then saving THAT file as an SRT and then being able to have MX Video Player or most any other Android video player be able to play the video file and read the SRT to display those subs.
*phew* It's a chore just typing the process out too.
So... does anyone have an answer, or a specific reason as to why Android video players can't do this? Is there a limitation in Android itself that stops any video players from reading additional streams inside video containers other than the audio and video streams only? That's my guess, that there's some kind of limitation on what the video player is allowed to access, but I am 100% guesstimating on that one - I'm quite positive I'm wrong so, you're free to point out that yes, I'm wrong if you like.
But, it sure would be nice considering I can create near-perfect files for portable devices including the HD2, any Android tablet, the Nook Color, etc etc with fantastic image quality, great audio quality, and embedded subs taken directly from the source material itself... it just seems - yes, I said it again, sorry - like there's no hope.
"Help me, XDA... you're my only hope..."
Ok, it's corny, sue me.
But if anyone cares to chime in, or has some advice that is useful and constructive and not just tell me go install yet another Android video player that doesn't actually do what I'm attempting to do, I'm liste--- errr... reading.
Thanks for your time, and if you read this far, I salute you. Have fun, always...
Hello, I honestly don't know why Android can't read embedded subs (such as ASS/SRT in MKV) but I see you're used to encode/decode/recode stuff: now, why don't you HARDCODE subs into the video? I know it takes some time, but you'd have subs "engraved" into video stream and therefore only one audio and one video stream to decode. Hope I made myself clear.
That's easy, and yes I can do that with HandBrake or straight x264 CLI work, but... I'm not deaf, my Wife is.
Sometimes I actually do like using the subtitles or captions, depending on the movie and the amount of noise/etc in a given scene (the captions make it easier to comprehend what the characters are saying, obviously), but I personally don't leave them enable intentionally so... that's why I'd like to embed them (or use files that I've already created for my Wife that are for use on the PC and can be played on the HD2 or whatever device we happen to get) so that I can enable them - or she can - as required and I can disable them so they're not "in the way" when I'm watching something just by myself.
Hope that's clear...
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Hello, this problem has been bugging me for a loong time, since my first android phone.
When I first had my HTC Hero, I found about android's DLNA capabilities and it was pretty
amazing that I could stream music and pictures to my tv, even videos in some rare occasions but
actual on-the-fly transcoding was completely impossible. Now skip ahead to my third phone, ZTE Blade III.
1Ghz and 512mb ram is quite good for what I need and I was hoping that it could transcode some poor-quality
videos I film with my phone. Why? Well, my TV has pretty small range of supported video formats and of course
that my phone records video in the unsupported format. I tried a wide varety of DLNA apps and none of them
had anything to do with transcoding. I tried twonky, skifta, bubbleupnp... No result.
Why is this so taboo? I understand if the file is in full HD but Blade III records in VGA. It shouldn't be a problem
to transcode or am I mistaken?
tl;dr need app that can transcode files in real time and send them to my tv (something like wmp but on android)
If you have a solution or idea, please share it with me and everybody else here :good:
Upgraded from blade iii to optimus l7 ii and now bumping the thread.
I know what you mean, I've had no luck getting Twonky to do transcoding, I can't find any documentation anywhere! It's driving me nuts!
I've had the most luck with PS3 Media Server. Don't be fooled by the name, it doesn't just work with PS3. It can use FFMPEG, MEncoder and VLC as transcoders, and supports realtime muxing with tsmuxer. If one of the transcoders does not play ball (for example VLC is better with corrupt files than the others from experience), there is a good chance the others will. It also supports burning in subtitles which I find really useful as I like watching foreign films. You can select which transcoder you want to use from the client itself, which is really handy!
I will try it ASAP, thanks a lot!
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I can't find "PS3 Media Server" on Google Play, mind sharing the link?