I have a Wildfire and am looking to "upgrade" to a Wildfire S when it is released here in the UK.
Both phones support the same video playback formats:
.3gp
.3g2
.mp4
.wmv (version 9)
but the Wildfire S has a screen resolution of 480x320 (vs the Wildfire with 240x320).
I don't know a lot about video compression formats but I do know there's a difference between encoding and transcoding.
I was hoping someone could recommend a good, user-friendly, transcoder that I could use to transcode my IsoHunt/PirateBay video downloads to the Wildfire (and Wildfire S when it comes out).
Either Windows or Linux clients would be great.
Thanks
I'm going to ignore the part about you mentioning illegal videos....
Using MPEG4 AVC at Level 2.x, VBR of your choosing. CQ does not work on Wildfire. Audio must be AAC LC. Use MediaCoder for advanced encoding. Transcoding is not possible from AVI to MP4.
Wildfire supports video in 320x240 max according to my own tests. Who knows if the Wildfire S supports a higher level such as 3.x.
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What have been the best playing roms for video playback particularly 720p H264 MKV's?
Stick with the ROMs with hardware acceleration enabled. If a ROM does not have this, it's usually listed as such (and usually "experimental" in nature).
Keep in mind the Tegra 2 issue with high profile h264 files -- this should be common knowledge by now. If not, an FYI that the Tegra 2 does not like h264 files encoded in high profile, it just chokes. Not just on a GTAB, but ANY Tegra 2 device (including the Xoom).
To find out if your video is high profile, I would recommend the excellent (and free) "MediaInfo" tool -- http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
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What have been the best playing roms for video playback particularly 720p H264 MKV's?
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TntLite and Vegan 5.1.1 both have hardware acceleration enabled and Rockplayer (or the stock player) both work. The only sticky thing is that I don't believe 720p mkv is supported by the chipset. Yes, it's only a container, but I don't think Android supports the container. If you remux into an mp4 (assuming it's AAC encoding and not AC3) you'd be fine.
I've had god luck re-encoding as an H264 avi at 720p in Xilisoft. AVIhd didn't hardware decode for me, but the regular AVI decoded properly (and looks fantastic). I've upped a sample at Fileserve
Xilisoft 6 has CUDA support, and rips through re-encoding on the Nvidia chip, best video convertor i ever bought. Settings were video size-auto, quality-normal, no split. i don't change the video size, because the AVI settings resize only up to 720x576...bleh.
File name: POTCST-Trailer.avi File size: 148.27 MB
Specs: Pirates of the Carribean Trailer avi
1280x532
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x532 29.97fps 8251Kbps [Video 0]
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 44100Hz stereo 128Kbps [Audio 1]
tested on: VEGAntab 5.1.1 Rockplayer 1.6.3 (hardware decode)
I've been trying to find the best encoding settings for HD/720p H.264 video for G Tablet with Handbrake and I'm not having much luck. I've followed this article for Notion's tablet (since its also a Tegra 2 tablet) and while the picture is great the playback is jittery. I tried lowing the RF (under Constant Quality) to 25 but it produces the same jitters.
Changing the video codec from H.264 to MPEG-4 (FFmpeg) actually produces little to no playback issues but the picture quality isn't as great (its still good though), but I prefer to use H.264.
Any one have any luck encoding HD H.264 video for their G Tablet? If so, can you share your settings?
Thanks in advance
P.S. - I'm running VEGAn-Tab 5.1.1 and using VPlayer, RockPlayer and QQPlayer to play back the videos (they're all suffering from jittery playback).
h.264 mp4 format
size: 1024*600
bitrate: 2500
Frame rate: 30
sample rate: 44100
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Hey guys, just got a few 720p high profile mkv files which reviews claimed could be played with the stock video player. All 3 files currently do not. Dice player works in trial but when i try to buy it gives me not found in the market. I'd rather usethe built in player personally but has anyone else had any luck either way?
EDIT solved with bs player
Try moboplayer its free.
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or MXPlayer I have used that on many MKVs
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Hey guys, just got a few 720p high profile mkv files which reviews claimed could be played with the stock video player. All 3 files currently do not. Dice player works in trial but when i try to buy it gives me not found in the market. I'd rather usethe built in player personally but has anyone else had any luck either way?
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I got same problem,but i used mx player and upnp , works flawless
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erick0423 said:
I got same problem,but i used mx player and upnp , works flawless
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I use the exact same
mx player works well but there's no hardware decoding available in any of them. Very disappointed ( though I know the hardware is capable of it). I know anandtech? Or one of the reviews did a blu ray rip and it played great so I'm guessing I'm missing something, an update broke it or if will be fixed in ics. Is also possible they just need hardware drivers for tegra3. I'm optimistic, is launch week, well have awesome devs, it'll get sorted eventually. Even software decode stutters just a bit ( I'm a video perfectionist). Also peeved at xda app FCs but again, brand new device. Just let me know if anyone (particularly those who didn't update) has any better luck.
Unbelievable , this still not resolved after the Tegra 2 debacle.
i've played a couple mkv's just fine with the stock player and mx player. the only issue i've had with them is if i skip around, the video never picks back up, works fine in software though.
but if i just watch the movie through without skipping around, it plays perfectly.
as you can see here ICS has added support to the Matroska format, so hopefully the default player will be handling it smoothly in ICS.
hXXp://briefmobile.com/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-announced-feature-list
replace hXXp with http in link.
That's good to know. Was thinking of cancelling my preorder once I heard people having problems with mkv's & diceplayer being unavailable
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mx player works well but there's no hardware decoding available in any of them. Very disappointed ( though I know the hardware is capable of it). I know anandtech? Or one of the reviews did a blu ray rip and it played great so I'm guessing I'm missing something, an update broke it or if will be fixed in ics. Is also possible they just need hardware drivers for tegra3. I'm optimistic, is launch week, well have awesome devs, it'll get sorted eventually. Even software decode stutters just a bit ( I'm a video perfectionist). Also peeved at xda app FCs but again, brand new device. Just let me know if anyone (particularly those who didn't update) has any better luck.
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How were these files encoded? Because in order to take advantage of hardware decoding a file has to meet a certain standard. If it deviates even a tiny bit, it will not work.
Go and Download BSPlayer lite from the market. It has the same funtionality like Diceplayer. Tegra 3 can nearly play all 1080p vids.
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How were these files encoded? Because in order to take advantage of hardware decoding a file has to meet a certain standard. If it deviates even a tiny bit, it will not work.
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Well its h264 high profile, which tegra 3 plays. Tegra 3 isn't picky, as long as its less than a 42mbps bitrate the hardware will handle it. The only standard it must meet is 1080p and less and 42mbps or less in h264 anyways. For tegra 3, i'm sure software is the issue.
Files came from my media server which are also hw accelerated with an nvidia graphics card via vdpau. never even have to check, just always plays (h264 anyways)
Again, i'm sure they'll fix it eventually,I know the chip does it, still annoying., its why I never bought tegra 2. And for those suggesting software decode, battery life PLUMMETS and the performance we would have with hw decode would be as good or better than blu ray with no stutter.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5163/asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-nvidia-tegra-3-review/5
EDIT:BS player appears to work WITH hardware acceleration. Every other app told me "not supported by system player, using software device" including dice
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Prime will handle highprofile mkv just fine if you use a other media player like mxplayer, diceplayer The problem when you can't play with the stock player is that it for the most times can't handle the audio.
Just give them some time to update there players to full Tegra3 support. The device have only been out some days and I think the developers also would like to have a device to test on.
I have posted this in a other thread, but I will repost it here to. From swedroid.se test, and translated into English.
"As is the case for the music player, Asus do net onclude their own video players, but instead uses default player that comes with Android. This is a rather rowdy players who only manages one of our clip in the table below (# 9), but without any sound, because support for AC3 missing."
"The third-party video player dice player or MX Video Player, both of which are available in the Android Market, it is however full marks. ASUS Prime plays everything we feed it with, whether it is DivX, XviD or MKV / h (x) 264-films with soundtracks in DTS or AC3 format."
Resolution / Codec / Profile / Container / Bitrate / Audio / Results (MX Video Player
640x352 XviD / [email protected] / AVI 1 Mbit/s MP3 2.0 OK
576x320 XviD / [email protected] / AVI 1,4 Mbit/s MP3 2.0 OK
720p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 3 Mbit/s AC-3 5.1 OK
720p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 9 Mbit/s AC3 5.1 OK
1080p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 14 Mbit/s DTS 5.1 OK
1080p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 19,2 Mbit/s AC3 5.1 OK
1080p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 22,8 Mbit/s DTS 5.1 OK
1080p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 25 Mbit/s DTS 5.1 OK
1080p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 30 Mbit/s AC3 5.1 OK
1080p h.264 / [email protected] / MKV 42 Mbit/s AC3 5.1 OK
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@OP
Have you tried a straight MP4 (H264/AAC) with standard Android player? You do realize that it's not just the video track that kicks the (3rd-party) player into HW or SW mode, right? Subtitles, for instance, will invoke SW mode. Chapter tracks will also probably cause SW.
As much as you sound you know, then you should also know that not every downloaded video is the same. If you have problems, SOP is first to provide specs (MediaInfo works), second is to provide a sample, third is to specify environment (which player you've tried, and their respective performance). Only noobs go "my vids don't work, now what?"
With the non-info you've provided, all you get is guesswork.
What do you mean by " files came from a media server"? If you are streaming to the device, expect skipping playback because WiFi can't handle hi-bitrate 1080p.
I have no issues running 720p or 1080p hi profile (locally) on my Transformer Prime in Dice player, even with DTS and multiple audio tracks.
people need to realise 3rd party players need to be optimised for tegra 3 for hardware acceleration. its not to do with type of file, as long as it does not have very high bitrate.
Everyone has to understand, that MKV is just a container. You can put almost anything into this container so therefore it is unlikely that the hardware can decode everything that can go into a MKV container.
The main thing about the Kal-El SoC, it is the first chip that can decode h.264 High Profile video. To see the supported codecs that Tegra 3 can decode in hardware see: http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-superchip.html
I've ripped hundreds of blu-rays. I've ended up using two sets of files.
Archive for playback on Samsung LED TV's and other high end DLNA devices:
Container: MKV
Video: H.264 High Profile 4.0 Constant Quality 18-20 1080p
Audio: AAC-LC 384 5.1 channel
Subtitles: sub format
Software: HD Decrypter, RipBot264 and Handbrake
Mobile Devices:
Container: m4v
Video: H.264 Base 3.0 Profile, 2-pass (1000kbps widescreen and 1200kbps for 16x9) qHD size (960x540),
Audio: AAC-LC 128 2 channel
Subtitles: Converted from the MKV
Software: Handbrake
I spend most of the time make the archive format looking as good as possible for it's size. Most files come out to 4-7GB per movie. There are exceptions depending on the quality of the movie. Movies with lots of noise in them come out to be much larger then one that is very clean. Computer Generated movies will come out to 3-4GB using CQ 18. The Prime should decode these just fine.
The mobile size I use for under powered devices and also to have as many movies as possible for it's size. qHD actually ends up looking very nice for it's size when down converted from blu-ray. A two hour movie comes out to be about 1GB. This way I can have on average 60-70 movies on 64B microsdxc card and about the same on the 64GB prime itself.
sorry, but I felt I provided all necessary info. The files are stored locally, mkv h264 high profile 20mbps streams with ac3 5.1 audio. They also have subtitles, though I don't need them.tpb was the source of all 3.
In any event, bs player works with hardware acceleration perfectly and I'm very happy. It also shows the hardware is fully capable of it, software will soon follow (ics)
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sorry, but I felt I provided all necessary info. The files are stored locally, mkv h264 high profile 20mbps streams with ac3 5.1 audio. They also have subtitles, though I don't need them.tpb was the source of all 3.
In any event, bs player works with hardware acceleration perfectly and I'm very happy. It also shows the hardware is fully capable of it, software will soon follow (ics)
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According to the Tegra 3 specs, AC3 is not supported in hardware.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-superchip.html
Can someone please verify for me that the only way H/W decoding is used is when a H.264 / MPEG-4 file is being played. I am running CM7 alpha 12. It is just a sanity check. Also, what converters are people using when converting. It could be that I am not converting correctly.
Thanks.
On paper it's supposed to run
"HW Decoding is limited to 3GP, 3G2, MP4, M4V, MKV, WEBM, H.264 (Baseline/Main/High profile) up to 1920x1080, MPEG-4 Simple/Advanced Simple profile up to 1920x1080, & H.263"
I personally never got any mkv above 480p (well i watch anime so its either 480 or 720) to run smoothly. If I really need to convert a video file, I use handbrake. Also with some mp4 files, I find that if they are on High profile they don't work, but its fine with baseline profiles.
I'm also running CM7 Alpha Final (7.2)
Below 720p runs fine here using MX Player, of course, MKV only in soft decode, to get hard decode you need .MP4 files compliant to h264 or x264, I even get full ASS/SSA rendering which is superb for those who likes to watch anime.
720p HW decode depends mostly on the profile used to encode the video. Don't expect a smooth playback with videos encoded with 16 ref frames, but the tablet plays perfectly fine high profile 3.1 (3 or 4 ref frames).
I know this because I tested.
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With cortex a8 single 1ghz and a same gpu that runs slower (200mhz) and half the memory 512MB, i am able to play 720P with h/w decode without frame drops or sound chops or any problems what so ever.
I tried the same mkv's on Nook Tablet.
To keep it simple it Sucks!
They advertise 1080p and it cannot even play 720p flawlessly.
My Vibrant just flies with any mkv not over 720p.
So this little baby needs more developing for sure.
P.s
Vibrant on:
3.1.10 kernel
1.8 gpu drivers
ICS 4.0.4
Slim Rom V3.2 with V8.2 Kiss kernel.
Talking about HW decode, I'm pretty sure the tablet is perfectly capable of playing 720p High Profile 3.1 without sound chops or frame skipping, you obviously have some kind of problem in your tablet.
I've watched hundred of videos using this profile on my NT and never had any problems, everything on rooted stock rom + MX Player.
BUT, if you are trying to play 720p High Profile 3.1 in a MKV container, you are going to have problems because only SW decode works, I tested this on my tablet and you get a poor playback.
Thanks for the responses. Any ideas about best converters? I am currently using anyvideo converter. Is there a better/easier one to use? As always thanks for the help.
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Use Handbrake. The high profile preset works fine, but I tweaked the preset a little to fill my needs.
The best part of Handbrake is the option that let you burn stylized soft subs on the video.
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