[Video Converter] Freemake - Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps

I haven't been too pleased with the video players on the Market. I watch a lot of anime and need something quick and can show subs. Someone mentioned this program in another thread and I have to say it is awesome.
Freemake
It is quick.
It has a built in Android option.
It has easy subtitle support.
It has settings to choose quality or size.
It has zero spam/malware/ads.
It is idiot proof.
The quick part is what bothers me most about converting videos. A 30 minute episode of Bleach shouldn't take 30 minutes, or even 20 minutes. And that's usually what happens on every other converter I've used in the past. Probably user error on my end, but this makes it simple. I give props to its developers. I don't have any affiliation with the developers or app. I'm just very happy to find something that handles video so well.
24 minute Bleach episode @1500kbps: 3 minutes
108 minute IP Man 2 @ 3000kbps: 20 minutes
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Freemake is the ship. I converted all of my coworkers and family.
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Does it hard-code the subs, or strip them from the mkv and return them as a separate file? If it hard-codes the subs, does it do so with original fonts, styling, etc.?

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Thanks ericc191 for the post about Freemake, it is a great program. However, all movies I add to my Tab 10.1 show up in gallery as a black box with a play arrow. The only way to distinguish them is to click info, then start clicking on the files and hopefully remember the location of the one I wanted to watch. I know there are other players out there where you select the file of the video you want to watch, but is there anyway to have gallery load a movie poster or something to show me what movie it is? If not, what is the best media player people have found, because so far, gallery has worked best for me (I don't care about subtitles)?

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Berner said:
Does it hard-code the subs, or strip them from the mkv and return them as a separate file? If it hard-codes the subs, does it do so with original fonts, styling, etc.?
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It hard codes them!
Jaydawgx7 said:
Thanks ericc191 for the post about Freemake, it is a great program. However, all movies I add to my Tab 10.1 show up in gallery as a black box with a play arrow. The only way to distinguish them is to click info, then start clicking on the files and hopefully remember the location of the one I wanted to watch. I know there are other players out there where you select the file of the video you want to watch, but is there anyway to have gallery load a movie poster or something to show me what movie it is? If not, what is the best media player people have found, because so far, gallery has worked best for me (I don't care about subtitles)?
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I don't believe this program has that feature. I'll check for something that will allow a movie poster type option and report back.

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I think the reason it is that fast on mkv is probably because most anime mkv files are already encoded in avc or h.264 video and AAC audio with ssa or srt subs wrapped in the mkv container, and as such all this programs just does is transcode and wrap it in an mp4 extension. (My theory)
The fact that it also burns in the subs is very impressive. I have a fast high end Mac and i use Handbrake for this type of stuff. Still takes about 10 mins for an average half-hour anime with burned in subs (but that's because i choose to use the x264 encode, which takes a bit longer and more CPU power but higher quality and smaller file size at same bitrates and such).
Will try this out on a Windows box i have lying around. Good find.

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yeah seems like it's smart enough to transcode when it can.

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Yeah, it also utilizes CUDA if you have an Nvidia GFX card. I happen to have a GTX 580, so that could also be why it's much quicker on my end. It just doesn't explain why other converters with the same Nvidia feature were slower.

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@eric191
I'm curious why you'd want to re-encode most animes, as they're pretty low bitrate. The Bleach (Horriblesubs) 720p series is only 1500kb/s. Doesn't a simple remux to MP4 work?

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e.mote said:
@eric191
I'm curious why you'd want to re-encode most animes, as they're pretty low bitrate. The Bleach (Horriblesubs) 720p series is only 1500kb/s. Doesn't a simple remux to MP4 work?
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I tried using yours and couldn't get the subs to hard code. I don't know of any other app that'll do a quick remux from mkv to mp4, unless Handbrake has it?

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So 3rd-party players like Mobo & Rock can't display external subs? I thought they could. That's the reason why I chose external soft subs over than hardcoded subs. Well, that, and to hardcode subs means you'd have to recode the video.

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e.mote said:
So 3rd-party players like Mobo & Rock can't display external subs? I thought they could. That's the reason why I chose external soft subs over than hardcoded subs. Well, that, and to hardcode subs means you'd have to recode the video.
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I'll play around with it some more tomorrow. Have your thread faved.