I can't seem to find an answer to this, but can the webtop hack display in 1080p? When I connect it to my receiver it forces me into 720p and no other resolutions are even listed in the drop down box.
dont think so as the Media center playback can only do 720p aswell for me
"xrandr" command should give you a list of all supported display resolutions, im trying to get 1080p but 1920x1080 is not an option on the list... i dont know why since my tv is full hd 1080p
use "xrandr -s 1920x1080" and try to change resolution
The classes involved for HDMI detection and setting the resolution have static variables for resolutions higher than 720p, however it's all hooked up through JNI and I don't know what the underlying library supports.
Is there any news?
Is there anyway to see movies with srt subtittles with Media center?
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Seeing some of the threads/questions re: Handbrake settings for the Nook, if you're having issues or just want something completely automated I found that DVD Catalyst ($10) has three presets for Nook Color (normal, fast, high quality) that work very well -- essentially just load the file or folder, select the preset and hit go. You can enable "advanced" user if you want to tweak the options but I've tested it with a couple of dvd video_ts folders and videos of different codecs (both audio and video) and they've all come out in good quality, and all playable without software decoding.
The file sizes that come out are comparable to the ones produced by presets for Handbrake people have produced here. a 1 hr 55 min video encoded for me at 1.39GB at the highest quality Nook setting.
I know it's not free like Handbrake but it might save someone headaches especially if they're wrestling with, for example, widescreen anamorphic content that isn't 16:9 or 4:3. Or if they just don't want to deal with tweaking presets
Does batch jobs as well, and has presets for a slew of other android devices if you're also converting for other formats/resolutions for your phone, etc.
is it faster then handbrake when converting the video?
Somewhat; I tested it last night for you with a 5-minute video. It took Handbrake 3 mins and 45 seconds to encode, it took DVD Catalyst 3 mins 15 seconds -- I can't (or haven't found) the command line interface to see what DVD Catalyst is writing out for its encode jobs, but I've tried to match w/e specs as closely as possible for the test (audio/video bitrate, etc.) How that will scale to larger files, I'm not entirely sure -- I batch encode all my videos before I go to bed at night.
I'd like to use AMD Video Converter as it uses the GPU to convert and is about twice as fast as Handbrake even on my Quad Core but I'm having trouble finding a way to manually control the settings for the output to match the NC needs. Anybody have any tips there?
Edit- Trying out MediaEspresso - Media Converter. So far, problems with output, will keep trying and report back. MediaEspresso settings not working with NC. It is a pretty nice encoder that has support for GPU encoding and is faster by about 50% than Handbrake, but not flexible enough to get the output that the NC needs. Working great to encode for my EVO however.
Just wanted to point out that with the speed of the NC (OC) and the range of codecs recognized by various players you hardly need to recode videos anymore.
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Just wanted to point out that with the speed of the NC (OC) and the range of codecs recognized by various players you hardly need to recode videos anymore.
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Have you gotten 720p videos to work smoothly with software decoding? I am only oc'ed to 1.1 Ghz and they still stutter. That's what I'm normally encoding.
*** Edit:*** Just to clarify, I mean encoding from 720p -> 480p so I can use Nook's hardware acceleration.
Both nookie froyo and the newer cm7 builds have hardware decoding
I didn't think the Nook's DSP (TI OMAP 3621) allowed native 720p decoding, only the OMAP 3630+ -- there was a thread here somewhere that said something about that. The 854x480 maximum resolution was, I thought, a hardware, not software limitation for the Nook.
From my own (meager) experience, anything higher than 480p insists on being played via software decoding regardless of what player I've used.
Some sites say 720p, others mention what you said... I just leave hd content for my bigger,hd screen
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Just wanted to point out that with the speed of the NC (OC) and the range of codecs recognized by various players you hardly need to recode videos anymore.
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I have moboplayer and CM7 OC to 1.3 and 720p video is still sub par via software decoding. Best results are still to handbrake recode to mp4 at 854x840.
The hardware decoding only handle mp4 files.
I tried this software to re-encode hd file to lower res mp4 and it does it lot faster than handbrake (on old P4 w/o gpu decoding GPU) : format factory : http://format-factory.softonic.fr/
I have a bunch of 1080p MKV movies that I want to convert into mobile versions for the Galaxy S II, but does anyone know what codecs I should use in order to take advantage of better battery life?
I play to shrink these down to 800x480 res. Any recommendations on bitrate too?
Also, any software or guides recommended to convert MKV to whatever codec has hardware acceleration for this phone?
All the video formats that the phone can play natively are hardware accelerated. So u can choose from MP4, avi, FLV and so on.....
I don't have much knowledge regarding the subject. But here's what I gathered:
According to Wikipedia:
The Exynos 4210, unlike Tegra 2, features support for ARM's SIMD engine (Media Processing Engine, a.k.a NEON instructions) and this may have a significant performance advantage in some cases over Tegra 2 in critical performance situations such as accelerated decoding for multiple multimedia codecs and formats (e.g., On2's VP6/7/8 or Real formats).
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Now, to take advantage of that hardware there also needs to be software that supports it.
MoboPlayer is one such software, that I know of, which has "ARM V7_NEON" playback codec and so it will fully utilize Galaxy S2 resources.
As to regards to which format you should convert...
On the MoboPlayer website is said that: "Almost all video formats(need to choose "software decoding" mode inmost cases)."
So I suppose what you need to do, is to disable "software decoding" mode and see what video formats will be supported in hardware mode.
stra said:
I don't have much knowledge regarding the subject. But here's what I gathered:
According to Wikipedia:
Now, to take advantage of that hardware there also needs to be software that supports it.
MoboPlayer is one such software, that I know of, which has "ARM V7_NEON" playback codec and so it will fully utilize Galaxy S2 resources.
As to regards to which format you should convert...
On the MoboPlayer website is said that: "Almost all video formats(need to choose "software decoding" mode inmost cases)."
So I suppose what you need to do, is to disable "software decoding" mode and see what video formats will be supported in hardware mode.
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I live in the US and we don't have the SGS2 released here yet. Can anyone who has the phone already, please test this out and let us know which codecs are hardware accelerated with MoboPlayer?
I found this guide for transcoding:
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/211070-How-to-convert-MKV-to-AVI-or-OGM-to-AVI-using-mencoder
I don't think there is an "optimum" bitrate because that is going to vary depending on content, ie, number of fast motion scenes. Maybe encode it in VBR and set the top limit fairly high.
I know this phone will handle 1080p MKV, but some of my mkv files are like 12gb!
Hi, dont bother with anything else, handbrake should be your tool of choice. There are various templates included but I usually just set it to MP4 high profile and choose the file size I want, handbrake then does the rest and bloody well too.
Do a search on here for handbrake, there may already be threads about it, note though you should only really have to re-encode if you movies are over 4 gig (fat 32 limit) as I haven't found a file this phone wont play yet with one player or another. My players of choice are always stock first, then mobo, then DICE.
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Hi, dont bother with anything else, handbrake should be your tool of choice. There are various templates included but I usually just set it to MP4 high profile and choose the file size I want, handbrake then does the rest and bloody well too.
Do a search on here for handbrake, there may already be threads about it, note though you should only really have to re-encode if you movies are over 4 gig (fat 32 limit) as I haven't found a file this phone wont play yet with one player or another. My players of choice are always stock first, then mobo, then DICE.
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Thanks mate! Actually, I'm getting this phone for my GF for our anniversary and she's a big Harry Potter geek, she has all the books and blu-ray. I've already converted her blu-rays to MKV so she can have them all on the XPS 15, but I was hoping to convert the MKV down to a mobile friendly format.
All the HP movies add up to 80gb so I can't just copy the MKV's on there, that's why I was thinking of transcoding again.
I did find this bit of info on the Exynos:
http://www.samsung.com/us/business/oem-solutions/pdfs/Exynos_v11.pdf
1080p Video Encode/Decode
- H.264 30fps
- MPEG-4 30fps
- VC-1 30fps
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It doesn't say what container it supports but from what you say, it sounds like MP4 is the way to go. Thanks for the Handbrake tip!
one thing you should aware of is that if you intend to get the MHL>HDMI adapter at some point you may want to transcode at a resolution a little higher as it wont look great on the TV. If you are just playing on the phone then you can get them down to a fraction of the size. I found the best thing to do was to find a smaller film clip that was encoded as 1080 MKV and run off some tests, then save off the template and batch convert the log. I converted all my start trek films from 8 gig to 2 gig a piece, I left them at 1080p but set the file size down to 2 gig. The all look great on my Phone and still really good on my TV through the HDMI, best of both worlds.
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one thing you should aware of is that if you intend to get the MHL>HDMI adapter at some point you may want to transcode at a resolution a little higher as it wont look great on the TV. If you are just playing on the phone then you can get them down to a fraction of the size. I found the best thing to do was to find a smaller film clip that was encoded as 1080 MKV and run off some tests, then save off the template and batch convert the log. I converted all my start trek films from 8 gig to 2 gig a piece, I left them at 1080p but set the file size down to 2 gig. The all look great on my Phone and still really good on my TV through the HDMI, best of both worlds.
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Wow, that's crazy! I doubt my gf will ever output these to a TV. I'm still playing with Handbrake's settings.
One thing I don't get about it is that HP is 1920x800'ish, so when I set it to 800, the height drops down to 336'ish.
I think I'd rather have it fullscreen and sacrifice cropping some of the sides, so I clicked ASPECT RATIO and set the height to 480.
Handbrake set the width to 1152, so I set a crop of 176 on left and right, to try to bring the final size back down to 800x480.
But Handbrake has some weird algorithm that doesn't seem to give the desired result? It changed the output size of the video on its own after I changed the cropping values.
So, I'm not quite sure how cropping is handling in Handbrake, is it done before or after the resolution is resized?
Mobo can't use HW video decoder. SW decoder use SIMD(NEON) instructions.
Exynos HW video decoder can decode 1080p.
Try diceplayer. it use HW video decoder in Exynos ( Multi Function Codec )
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Mobo can't use HW video decoder. SW decoder use SIMD(NEON) instructions.
Exynos HW video decoder can decode 1080p.
Try diceplayer. it use HW video decoder in Exynos ( Multi Function Codec )
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Thanks but does it also depend on which container or codec the video is in?
I'm assuming that h.264 video in a MP4 container should be hardware accelerated right?
H264 in any container up to High Profile level 5.0
Hi everyone,
This is my first post on this forum. I am not sure if it is proper to ask my question here. It seems this's a forum for developers? I am not a developer at all. If I posted on the wrong thread I am sorry.
I just bought my Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF201 about a month ago. You see, I am completely a newbie about the tablet things. I have a large collection of Blu-ray discs which I want to put onto my TF201 for watching while traveling around. I found a Blu-ray ripping program (It is called Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper if it matters) that can convert Blu-ray movies to the MP4 format videos for watching on Android tablets.
My question is: I don't know what are the best output settings I should use with the Blu-ray program There are too many technical terms I can hardly understand. Does anyone here have any video conversion experience for Transformer Prime? Any advice or instruction is highly appreciated!
Detailed info about the settings in Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper software:
Format: H.264 Video(*.mp4)
Video settings available are:
Codec - h264
Size(pix) - original; 1280*720; 1440*1080; 1920*1080.
Bitrate(kbps) - original; 4000; 6000; 8000, 10000; 12000.
Frame Rate(fps) - original; 12; 15; 20; 23.976; 24; 25; 29.97; 30.
Audio settings available are:
Codec - aac; ac3.
Sample Rate(hz) - 22050; 32000; 44100; 48000.
Bitrate(bps) - 64000; 96000; 128000; 160000; 256000; 320000; 640000.
Channels - Mono; Stereo; 5.1 channels.
So I haven't done any converting myself, but I think I can help. Ill just go through those settings you listed and give you what i think would be the best choice.
video-
size- 1920*1080 should work since the prime can handle hd
Bitrate - not sure on this one I would imagine that you could go pretty high like 8000-1000
frame rate- 30
Audio-
codec - aac
sampe rate - 44100
bitrate - (idk on this I think anything is fine) 256000
channels- doesn't really matter the prime will only play mono from its own speaker, but if you hook it up it might be able to do more so maybe 5.1 or else stereo
Hope this helps
If you have a large collection of blu-rays that you want on the Prime, then storage space may become an issue, even if you get a micro-SD card. You could try the suggestions made by cmat1120 and see how many GB a single movie takes up. That will help you determine how many movies you'll be able to store on your Prime.
If you plan on watching movies with headphones, I'd recommend going with a stereo audio output. I don't know if 5.1 will do you any good because I don't think that surround sound gets passed through the HDMI port (I haven't been able to get it to work, anyway), and the extra audio channels won't improve headphone quality.
I also recommend going with original frame rate. I don't see a need to change it, and I especially don't see any reason to increase it above the original. That won't magically give you extra frames that don't exist in the first place.
If you're aiming for 1080p HD, then it is 1920 x 1080 with 24 fps. That's where I would start, and I'd adjust the bitrate depending on how much storage space I want to use per movie; a higher bitrate will take up more storage space but will have better quality.
After thinking about it some more, I am changing a recommendation - go with 1280 x 720 resolution. The Prime's display is 1280 x 800, and some of those 800 pixels are dedicated to the bar at the bottom of the screen. The Prime cannot display 1080p on its own screen. If you rip your movies at 1920 x 1080, the Prime will scale it down to 1280 x 720 when it displays it. I don't even think it can display 1080 through HDMI; only 720. Shrinking the movies down to 720 when you decode them will spare you a chunk of storage.
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After thinking about it some more, I am changing a recommendation - go with 1280 x 720 resolution. The Prime's display is 1280 x 800, and some of those 800 pixels are dedicated to the bar at the bottom of the screen. The Prime cannot display 1080p on its own screen. If you rip your movies at 1920 x 1080, the Prime will scale it down to 1280 x 720 when it displays it. I don't even think it can display 1080 through HDMI; only 720. Shrinking the movies down to 720 when you decode them will spare you a chunk of storage.
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It can display 1080 via HDMI, assuming your content is 1080 of course. I'd still go with 720 though.. Personally I can barely tell the difference between 1080 vs 720 up-close.. I have trouble distinguishing the two from 8-10 feet away, and the TFP will only display 720 if you're watching on the tablet.
.mkv 720p
although 1080p isn't a problem either, with dice player you just resize it to fill your screen
and bitrate above 160 if you hear the difference on this device I want your ears
Thank you all very much for your inputs here! Really appreciate.
I've tested with the 1080P settings that cmat1120 suggested to convert my Transformers BD of 2hrs 23min. Guess what? The generated MP4 file is 10.28GB! Although the file played flawlessly with surprisingly good quality on my big computer screen, the huge file size made my Transformers Prime tablet a little it bit hard to cope with.
The 1080P settings generates too huge file. In this way my tablet will only be able to store 2 or 3 movies.
I've also tried to use ac3 5.1 audio settings, but the converted file played without sound on TF201. I think ac3 5.1 makes no sense for Transformer Prime as it will only to be able to produce stereo sound.
I then tried with the 1280*720 settings and the generated file is more acceptable with good quality on TF201. The final file is only 4.14GB. This way my tablet will be able to hold about 6 or 7 movies.
The detailed settings I used as below:
Format: H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)
Video settings:
Codec - h264
Size(pix) - 1280*720
Bitrate(kbps) - 4000
Frame Rate(fps) - 24
Audio settings:
Codec - aac
Sample Rate(hz) - 44100
Bitrate(bps) - 128000
Channels - stereo
The 720P settings also converts faster in the Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper. So I think I will use the above settings for my future conversion.
But if there's any way to make the final size decreases to 2GB around while still keeping the good quality...
Thanks again cmat1120, jkvato, namebrandon and Hawkysoft !
I use DVD Catalyst. It is the best ripping software I've found. It has a bunch of pre-sets for many devices including the Prime. These pre-sets are also set-up for whatever resolution you are looking for from SD to Blue-Ray. This program also has the capability to remove the black bars from certin aspect ratio's. I personaly have not ripped any Blue-Rays but there is a pre-set for HD.
The people who make DVD Catalyst are great at answering e-mail for any problem or question you have. They usually answer within a few hours.
Highly recommended
http://www.tools4movies.com/
I use DVD Catalyst as well, and it's a pretty good program. The downside is that in order to rip blu-rays you also need to buy additional software to decrypt the blu-ray, such as Any DVD HD or DVDfab Passkey for Bluray.
I used DVD Fab HD Decrypter to rip the Bluray to hdd then Handbrake to encode to .mp4 (use the ipad preset). Resulting file size has been fairly small. Puss In Boots.mp4 was < 1G. Other movies have been approx 2G or less.
It's not a one-step solution but both apps are free and both apps work on Linux as well as Windows.
THANK YOU FOR MORE INPUTS HERE!
I find Handbrake is very useful to reduce the file size while keeping relatively good quality.
The generated MP4 file from Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper using the 1080P settings is around 10GB. After using Handbrake to convert again to the iPad format it is now reduced to 1.3GB. Great
The 1.3GB file is now in the .m4v format with resolution 1024*464. It played fairly well on my Transformer Prime and much better on my sister's iPad 2
Also I find if you reduce in Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper the video bitrate(kbps) value to 2000 the generated H264 MP4 file can be even smaller! At 4000kbps it is 4.14GB, but with 2000kbps it is only 2.14GB and the video quality is still quite good. Surprise
So it seems the video bit rate is the main factor deciding the final file's size.
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THANK YOU FOR MORE INPUTS HERE!
I find Handbrake is very useful to reduce the file size while keeping relatively good quality.
The generated MP4 file from Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper using the 1080P settings is around 10GB. After using Handbrake to convert again to the iPad format it is now reduced to 1.3GB. Great
The 1.3GB file is now in the .m4v format with resolution 1024*464. It played fairly well on my Transformer Prime and much better on my sister's iPad 2
Also I find if you reduce in Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper the video bitrate(kbps) value to 2000 the generated H264 MP4 file can be even smaller! At 4000kbps it is 4.14GB, but with 2000kbps it is only 2.14GB and the video quality is still quite good. Surprise
So it seems the video bit rate is the main factor deciding the final file's size.
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now try to compress it to mpv, 720p and tell me the output ;-p
720p is better than 1080p for the prime, also reduces size, although 1080p isn't a problem either for me.
p.s. the movies i watch are roughly between 4 and 7GB
Series at the otherhand are mostly between 1.5 and 2.5GB makes sense cuz of the time huh?
p.s. i checked the program you use, and it should support mpv compression as well
"now try to compress it to mpv, 720p and tell me the output ;-p"
Thank you Hawkysoft!
Did you mean the MKV format?
I could not find the MPV output format in Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper
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"now try to compress it to mpv, 720p and tell me the output ;-p"
Thank you Hawkysoft!
Did you mean the MKV format?
I could not find the MPV output format in Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper
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ah yes sorry... thats what i ment yea
I just tested with the MKV 720P settings from Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper and the generated MKV is only 1.52GB! Fairly good size and quality for my Transformer Prime. But my sister's iPad 2 did not even accept the MKV file. You see, my Transformer tablet is better than iPad
The Blu-ray movie I converted with is Toy Story 3 of 1hr 43min long. With the program's CUDA acceleration the conversion only took 56 minutes. Very good!
The detailed settings I used are:
Format: MKV HD Video(*.mkv)
Video settings:
Codec - h264
Size(pix) - 1280*720
Bitrate(kbps) - 2000
Frame Rate(fps) - 24
Audio settings:
Codec - aac
Sample Rate(hz) - 44100
Bitrate(bps) - 128000
Channels - stereo
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
Hi,
I am owner of a Sony Xperia Tablet S with a docking station(using to connect to a TV through HDMI cabel). When I connect the tablet to my TV(Samsung 1080P) It is only recognized as 720P device. That's probably OK, but when I play 1080P movie It should change to 1080P video resolution but it doesn't happen. I tried to search for a HDMI output setting in the tablet but there is no such thing, I also tried several video players, even to play exact resolution size video - 1920x1080 no change... still only 720P. And to be honest 720P doesn't look very brilliant from this tablet. I hoped to use the tablet as some kind of "all round video player".
Is there any way that I can convince the tablet to play videos in 1080P/Full HD? Any idea how to resize HDMI output resolution?
I know that it is mirroring my device, but even though it should automatically resize when playing full HD movies. (Saw it on couple of videos, where it does really work. The TV shows 1080P videos and the devices screen stays black, I guess because of their lower resolution, but that's OK.)