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I just picked up my gtablet yesterday and have been spending my time installing tnt lite and installing several apps. I bought it because when I go on trips I wanted something that could browse the net, and play videos. I installed RockPlayer and put a 720p mkv file onto the machine, however playback is very choppy and its almost like the device cannot handle it. I know that several people have gotten 1080p to work good, and I am wondering if there is a setting that needs to be enabled to make 720p work better? I did some digging and saw that someone said to edit a line in the build.prop file (set the media.stagefright.enable from true to false), but I cannot edit my build.prop file. And I am not entirely sure that this will fix the problem. Are 720p videos playable on this machine?
What profile did you render the movies in? Try changing the MKV extension to AVI... Sometimes some renderers treat containers differently even though they are using the same codecs.
just tried to rename the extension from .mkv to .avi and still same choppiness and eventually the videos stops playing all together. I am not sure what rendering is, but the file is encoded AAC 2.0 H264
h264 is not the issue, it's what profile its encoded in
I have this in my FAQ section (in my sig). h264 is supported, but the Tegra 2 cannot handle h264 encoded in high profile. It can handle main profile.
This is confusing to people. So, what I would recommend is to download the excellent "mediainfo" tool (http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en) and it will show you how your videos are encoded.
As for container support, I think MP4 plays a little better than MKV, but Rockplayer (in the Market) seems to be able to handle MKV and using hardware acceleration. Again, as long as it's h264 main profile.
This is not just an issue with the GTab - all the Tegra 2 devices will have this issue as its a limitation of the chipset, or so I've read. Vega, Folio, even the mysterious Adam will probably have this same limitation.
Reference on h264 and main / high profile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC
Thank you for clarifying. I am wondering can I convert the video to the main profile and then get it to work?
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Thank you for clarifying. I am wondering can I convert the video to the main profile and then get it to work?
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Yeah, that's the tricky part. I haven't been able to figure that out yet, although granted I haven't put much time into it. I think these "profiles" depend on how you encode and which tool you use.
If you try the Tron Legacy trailers, they are 1080p but main profile. A good example of how nice videos can look on it, when encoded the right way.
I have to play around more with something like ffmpeg to see if I can pin this down. Another reason for transcoding is to keep the sizes down, since we have the 4GB FAT32 file size limitation to deal with. Yuk.
I've incoded a 1080p high profile to main. sound was in and out then tryed a few things and lost sound. Video played great anyways.
I guess it depends on the encode. I dl a 720p music video off of youtube, mp4 avc [email protected] (according to mediainfo) and it plays just fine.
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I guess it depends on the encode. I dl a 720p music video off of youtube, mp4 avc [email protected] (according to mediainfo) and it plays just fine.
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Could be a lower screen resolution that full 720p (not all 720p's are alike).
I also read today that Tegra 2 720p should work in high profile, but 1080p definitely does not. But, Android itself might be limiting even 720p, so it's a crap shoot.
Just out of curiosity why do you guys want those big files on here anyway? Is it to output to a TV? I wouldn't think you would need such a high quality file to watch stuff on the G tab.
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Just out of curiosity why do you guys want those big files on here anyway? Is it to output to a TV? I wouldn't think you would need such a high quality file to watch stuff on the G tab.
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It's not about storing large files on the gtab...its more about having video portability. I keep my movies and videos on a server that I stream from my living room and bedroom. It would be ideal if I can play files on any device without having to reencode the video.
I did test 1080p files from YouTube and they did not play (high profile).
Ok, makes sense. I do the same thing using upnplay and my server. Thought you were wanting them on the tablet.
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Just out of curiosity why do you guys want those big files on here anyway? Is it to output to a TV? I wouldn't think you would need such a high quality file to watch stuff on the G tab.
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A two hour 720p movie runs ~4GB, so it's close to the limit in FAT32. And you could easily go over the limit when encoding, which would require you to break the file up. Annoying.
The problem here is that none of the vendors want to agree on a replacement file system for portable devices (wow, no surprise there). MS wants exFAT, the open source community would prefer EXT3/4, and I assume Apple would prefer HFS+.
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Just out of curiosity why do you guys want those big files on here anyway? Is it to output to a TV? I wouldn't think you would need such a high quality file to watch stuff on the G tab.
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Can't speak for everybody else, but for me I'd want to just use the video files I broadcatch from the NNTP groups. Ideally, I wouldn't want to have to reencode video to watch it, just access it directly from my media server. Standard definition avis work okay, but eventually these will not be offered and of course the HD versions look way better. Over the years it's been harder to come by a regular source of SD resolution TV Series feeds. The 720P encoded files quality are noticeable versus SD even on this smaller screen. Ideally we would get high profile 720P MKV at least to work as it seems this is what the guys doing NNTP TV Series seem to be encoding in.
What I would see happening is that a video player on the GTablet will access the files off the media server and stream, not play files directly off the local Internal SD. Regardless of where the file resides, it looks like it needs to be refined to play these files more fluidly.
I'm not saying this will be the only nor primary method of viewing video files, but having the flexibility and option is always nice. Especially when all the tvs are watching something else. ;P
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Can't speak for everybody else, but for me I'd want to just use the video files I broadcatch from the NNTP groups. Ideally, I wouldn't want to have to reencode video to watch it, just access it directly from my media server. Standard definition avis work okay, but eventually these will not be offered and of course the HD versions look way better. Over the years it's been harder to come by a regular source of SD resolution TV Series feeds. The 720P encoded files quality are noticeable versus SD even on this smaller screen. Ideally we would get high profile 720P MKV at least to work as it seems this is what the guys doing NNTP TV Series seem to be encoding in.
What I would see happening is that a video player on the GTablet will access the files off the media server and stream, not play files directly off the local Internal SD. Regardless of where the file resides, it looks like it needs to be refined to play these files more fluidly.
I'm not saying this will be the only nor primary method of viewing video files, but having the flexibility and option is always nice. Especially when all the tvs are watching something else. ;P
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First rule of Usenet.....
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Okay I'm doing the Madagascar penguin "you didn't see anything gesture" now. LOL.
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japhule said:
It's not about storing large files on the gtab...its more about having video portability. I keep my movies and videos on a server that I stream from my living room and bedroom. It would be ideal if I can play files on any device without having to reencode the video.
I did test 1080p files from YouTube and they did not play (high profile).
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Can you please share how you are thinking about doing that using movies/pictures/videos on Windows Media Center share or NFS mount.
I tried very same thing as some of my movies still in vob format or mpeg2 (home recordings of kids), tv recordings using microsoft format or streaming pics, and nothing seems to work. I was able to use upnpplay (android program in the market place) to browse my stuff on the shared drive, but can't play mpeg2, vob or other format.
does anyone know what's the best way to do this?
G Tab supports H.264 1080p main and high profiles
Detailed specs on what Audio and Video formats G Tablet supports are listed in the manual downloadable from the Viewsonic web site.
But in a few words - it does support up to 1080p, both baseline, high, and main profiles for H.264 with certain limitations for each, and MPEG4 simple profile.
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Can you please share how you are thinking about doing that using movies/pictures/videos on Windows Media Center share or NFS mount.
I tried very same thing as some of my movies still in vob format or mpeg2 (home recordings of kids), tv recordings using microsoft format or streaming pics, and nothing seems to work. I was able to use upnpplay (android program in the market place) to browse my stuff on the shared drive, but can't play mpeg2, vob or other format.
does anyone know what's the best way to do this?
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My entire system is redundant. I have my windows 7 share as well as my htpc/nas running tversity, orb and audiogalaxy (music only). Everything is shared in every way. First I try just streaming the file through Windows 7 dlna, which generally works fine. I too use Upnplay. If something doesn't work (very rare) I move to looking for it through Tversity which attempts to detect the dlna device and scale it so it works. I've never needed to use Orb on the GTab since I really got everything up and running, Orb is for when I actually am on the road and want to watch sth. from my home network. PlayOn may actually work as well - it has a free mode which allows you to use it to share files on the local network using VLC codecs.
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I'd like to add to this conversation with, I hope, clarification of how to get higher definition video playback working on the GTab.
I've tried four video files that are 720P or 1080P. None of them works well in Movies, DoubleTwist, Rockplayer, or VitalPlayer.
G Tablet, TnT 4.21, OE kernel. Market fix. Various apps.
Videos all playing from /SDCARD
Here is some more information about those videos, using Mediainfo:
Touring Car race:
720P MPEG-4 50FPS AVC ([email protected]) (CABAC / 3 ref frames)
AAC Stereo
Big Buck Bunny:
http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/
1080P OpenDML AVI 12Mbps 24FPS MPEG-4 Visual ([email protected])
AC-3 audio
Audi R8:
720P AVC Matroska 800Kbps 29.970FPS AVC ([email protected]) (CABAC / 2 ref frames)
AC-3 audio
Donington LG demo:
1080P BDAV M2TS 35.5Mbps 29.970fps AVC ([email protected]) (CABAC /3 ref frames)
AC-3 audio
Are all of these simply too much for me to get away with playing on the GTab? I've played most, if not all of these, using a Broadcom 70012 Crystal HD decoder card on a Dell Mini 9 (Atom N270) with few problems.
Thanks for the help.
Going to get my S2 delivered tomorrow. I would like to have a couple of movies from my collection of DVDs on my phone for long journies.
What software and what format should I use? I only plan to watch on my phone, not display via HDMI or Allshare.
Sorry if this is nooby, did a full search but no joy.
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Going to get my S2 delivered tomorrow. I would like to have a couple of movies from my collection of DVDs on my phone for long journies.
What software and what format should I use? I only plan to watch on my phone, not display via HDMI or Allshare.
Sorry if this is nooby, did a full search but no joy.
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Drag and drop Worked so far on almost all movies I've put on my phone, alogn with TV shows and even streamed Southpark studios full eps over it
How can you drag and drop a dvd? , I use DVDfab not free but very good, I am ripping a dvd in flv to see what the quality is like.
If you are on Ubuntu you can use OgmRip...the best!
Seems fairly obvious but if you're watching direct on your phone I'd also advise to rip as close to 800x480 if you can so there is less up/down scaling needed to be done by the phone.
Might as well be as close to native screen resolution as possible - 1 pixel to 1 pixel always works out better!
Thanks.
Any advice on the best format to rip to. MKV seems popular but MP4 or H.264 seem common to.
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MP4 or H264 or H263 .
MKV to many post problems with that format .
jje
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Going to get my S2 delivered tomorrow. I would like to have a couple of movies from my collection of DVDs on my phone for long journies.
What software and what format should I use? I only plan to watch on my phone, not display via HDMI or Allshare.
Sorry if this is nooby, did a full search but no joy.
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you may try foxreal dvd ripper, it's really easy to use, just click,click and done.
and from its website, you will find lots of tutorial on galaxy s 2, they introduce the galaxy s 2 video format with detail settings to us
hope this can help you
I've been using dvdNext. I first create an ISO then convert to h.264. The program allows you to create ISOs, burn to disc, and select from a multitude of mobile formats with differing qualities and resolutions.
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Some of these replies don't make sense, as mp4 and mkv are containers whereas h.263 and h.264 are video codecs. Also, native DVD format is 720x480 so it doesn't make sense to rip to resolutions higher than that (you might as well let the phone do the resizing).
My suggestion is to use handbrake and rip to a high-quality format with good compression (e.g., h.264 video/AAC audio, mkv container). The High Profile preset is good (although it defaults to mp4 rather than mkv).
I've owned the phone for about a week now and I like it a lot except I'm not sure how to get videos converted on here? I had to find a trial version of AVS video converter which doesn't even support Galaxy S2, I just changed the resolution but it wasn't as good + watermark in the center.
How can I get movies on here and utilize the full screen or at least get good quality? Does Samsung Kies do this?
I know with apple products (i.e. the iPhones, iPods) it easy with itunes and I already have Videora ipod converter which is extremely easy and flawless for my iPod.
I just cant find anything that easy with the Galaxy s2? Honestly it feels like this is the deal breaker for me as much as I love this phone.
You don't have to convert anything. The phone plays divx and mkvs. Converting is in the past. At worst you need to get Dice Player from the market for mkvs with DTS. I have a huge collection and converting is history.
If you want to convert it for downsizing the file size try Handbrake. Free program and open source.
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Media Converter looks pretty cool.
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If you want to convert it for downsizing the file size try Handbrake. Free program and open source.
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Handbrake is the way to go. Free, open source, and uses one of the best H.264 encoders out there (x264).
I have attached the preset I use for encoding - note that this can probably use some tuning to be more appropriate for the GS2 as it's more capable than the Android devices I've encoded to before for media playback. It'll work just fine on the GS2, it just won't achieve quite the quality and compression ratios possible by enabling some of the more advanced H.264 features.
I disagree on conversion being unnecessary - 720p/1080p videos are pointless unless you're using the MHL adapter, they'll play but are a waste of storage space. Also, some codecs/formats may fallback on software decoding, eating your battery more than hardware-decoded formats.
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You don't have to convert anything. The phone plays divx and mkvs. Converting is in the past. At worst you need to get Dice Player from the market for mkvs with DTS. I have a huge collection and converting is history.
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and here I was searching the ends of the earth looking for a program to convert the files. I could have sworn I saw somewhere that Galaxy S2 didn't support avi's. Boy was I wrong. Thanks!
DivX or XviD are just codecs for .avi files right? Most of my movies are all avi's and I just drag and dropped one and it played great just now.
Do you all your movies play with black borders too? I know I could resize it on my Galaxy S2 but there is some loss in quality. This seems like a universal thing as my iPod Touch does the same thing. It's not a problem really it's just I'd like to be able to utilize the full screen.
Entropy512 said:
Handbrake is the way to go. Free, open source, and uses one of the best H.264 encoders out there (x264).
I have attached the preset I use for encoding - note that this can probably use some tuning to be more appropriate for the GS2 as it's more capable than the Android devices I've encoded to before for media playback. It'll work just fine on the GS2, it just won't achieve quite the quality and compression ratios possible by enabling some of the more advanced H.264 features.
I disagree on conversion being unnecessary - 720p/1080p videos are pointless unless you're using the MHL adapter, they'll play but are a waste of storage space. Also, some codecs/formats may fallback on software decoding, eating your battery more than hardware-decoded formats.
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I've heard of Handbrake, basically it's if I have full DVD's right? And you can't see true 720p or 1080p videos on this phone right? Only on a hdtv through the MHL adapter?
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Do you all your movies play with black borders too? I know I could resize it on my Galaxy S2 but there is some loss in quality. This seems like a universal thing as my iPod Touch does the same thing. It's not a problem really it's just I'd like to be able to utilize the full screen.
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Yes, it does for movies but not TV thanks to the aspect ratio. Some player from the market (Moboplayer, Dice Player) let you resize to fill the screen.
I've heard of Handbrake, basically it's if I have full DVD's right? And you can't see true 720p or 1080p videos on this phone right? Only on a hdtv through the MHL adapter?
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Handbrake can re-encode almost any video source. You can watch 1080p movies on the phone but they only display in WVGA resolution. With MHL out the phone will playback full Blu Ray rips in 1080p (I do this often).
Depends on the movie. If it's a 16:9 movie, it should have little to no black bordering.
If it's a 2.35:1 movie - it's going to have black bars above/below.
4:3 content will have black bars left/right.
While you can directly watch 1080p content (we've got a beefy GPU), it gets scaled down to 480p - so it'll just waste storage space.
The preset I linked preserves the aspect ratio and limits to a max of 800 pixels wide or 480 tall, so basically scaling video to the optimal resolution for our phone - not too small, not any larger than the native resolution.
If you want to use the MHL adapter, I can post the 720p preset I use on my Tab 10.1
Entropy512 said:
Handbrake is the way to go. Free, open source, and uses one of the best H.264 encoders out there (x264).
I have attached the preset I use for encoding - note that this can probably use some tuning to be more appropriate for the GS2 as it's more capable than the Android devices I've encoded to before for media playback. It'll work just fine on the GS2, it just won't achieve quite the quality and compression ratios possible by enabling some of the more advanced H.264 features.
I disagree on conversion being unnecessary - 720p/1080p videos are pointless unless you're using the MHL adapter, they'll play but are a waste of storage space. Also, some codecs/formats may fallback on software decoding, eating your battery more than hardware-decoded formats.
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Thanks a lot for attaching your preset. It works great. You mentioned that it can use some tuning for our phone to achieve the quality and compression ratios possible. I don't know how to do that so I don't know if it's quick and simple to do or not. Can you do that and attach it for us to download?
Thanks
Basically go into Advanced and try enabling various features until something breaks.
I tried it on my Infuse at one point and it just caused audio and video to desync. Haven't had time to fiddle with it on the GS2. It's basically trial and error in the Advanced tab of Handbrake.
Entropy512 said:
Basically go into Advanced and try enabling various features until something breaks.
I tried it on my Infuse at one point and it just caused audio and video to desync. Haven't had time to fiddle with it on the GS2. It's basically trial and error in the Advanced tab of Handbrake.
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ok. thanks
can you post the preset you use for your tab 10.1?
thanks again
It's basically the exact same preset except the resolution limits are 1280x720. The resolution limits are hard to find, you only see them when saving a profile.
Well this is actually a topic with 2 quetions in it.
1) Did you guys already notice when playing a movie on the Prime, and you connected the prime to a tv through a microHDMI cable the subtitles shown on the Prime, do not show up on the television. It looks like the prime only sends the pure video signal to the tv and not the extra's such as subtitles. Is there some kind of workaroud for this? I've tried both DicePlayer as MX Video Player without any succes.
2) This is the main question. What program do you guys use, and which settings, to convert movies you've downloaded or ripped? I know the Prime plays a lot of formats, but the main reason for asking is that most downloaded movies are rather big files (over 10Gb). So I want to make them smaller in size. So which program do you recommand for that, and which which settings?
Personally I've tried two programs:
- XMedia Recode. Ideal program because it has already a lot of pre-settings in it, also one for the Asus Transformer. But the outcome file is quite grainy.
- MediaCoder. A lot can be adjusted, but no presets. And from a quick comparison, I think the outcome file is not really nice to look at. Lot's of distortion, blocks, etc.
So please advice.
Google DVD Catalyst
So far it's hasn't met a DVD or video file it didn't like.
Transformer Prime presets at different quality settings.
I've been using it for a while, it's great.
Ok I will try that. But does it also hard encode the subtitles, so the subtitles are show on the Tv when the prime is connected through microHDMI to the tv?
10GBs? Where you getting your movies from !? I use 720p BluRay Rips that are around 2Gbs or less
This is for personal watching on the prime not using TV.
I use various torrent sites to get my HD TV Shows to watch at work
I also MX player to play movies that the stock player wont play
I download movies for watching on the tv, but sometimes, eg, when I'm in the nighshift, I want to convert them to 720p movies.
I also watch older movies which are not always in 720p, or not even in X264 format, but only in DVD format.
And because I'm living in the Netherlands, not everybody encodes the movies in 720p with dutch subtitles but only in 1080p. So that's why.
But then is there still the problem that the Prime does not show the subtitles on the tv. The only way to see the subtitles I think, is when they are hard coded in the movie.
Not sure about DVD Catalyst and hard coding them but Tools4movies is great about answering email. They should be able to tell you if it's possible or not. My laptop is down for the count right now or I'd look at the many settings this program has to see if its a possibility.
From Tools4movies website:
Tools4Movies was founded in late 2003. While initially developed as a basic video conversion utility, in the middle of 2004, the
first version of DVD Catalyst was released under the name of mMedia.
mMedia consisted of 2 separate applications called mDVD and mVideo. mVideo was the continuation of an in-home build video
conversion utility, and mDVD was essentially a modified version to enable DVD support.
After a few months of continuous development, mMedia was replaced with PocketDVD 1.0, which initially hold onto the 2 separate
applications, but with later versions, both were merged into a single application to make better use of the powerful batching capabilities
that the applications offered. The first name change, from mMedia to PocketDVD was decided on due for marketing reasons.
After a few successful version-upgrades, and PocketDVD 2.0 winning the Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine Best Software Awards, a
new name change was needed because we were receiving too many support requests for applications with a similar name. While initially
beneficial (we do answer all emails within a very reasonable response time, even if it was not for our own application) we found it better
to have a more distinctive look and name to avoid confusion. As we at DVD Catalyst are cat-persons (well, 1 cat and 2 yorkies at the
moment), we decided to use distinctive cat-eyes in the graphical design, and of course DVD CATalyst as a name.
DVD Catalyst was born out of our own personal needs. After looking around the web for an application to assist us with putting movies
on our portable devices, we found that there was nothing on the market that would easily enable us to start a conversion with more than
just one DVD track or video file. On top of that, all available software treated DVDs and video files as being different, basically forcing you
to purchase 2 products for essentially doing the same thing.
So rather than settling for a multi-app solution, we started development on something that would do what we want; Rip multiple DVDs,
convert numerous video files, and provide us with all the control over the conversion we could ever need.
Unlike most video-conversion-app developers out there, we actually use our own software on a daily basis. Whenever we run into
something we would like it to do, we build it into our software.
Coming from a history of support-jobs, we actually listen to our customers. Besides providing the best possible support, we are also
always open for suggestions. We do come up with ideas and new features ourselves, but customer suggestions and feature requests has
made DVD Catalyst what it is today.
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for video conversions I like using the program "super"
www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html
Download link is at the bottom of the page.
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Ok I will try that. But does it also hard encode the subtitles, so the subtitles are show on the Tv when the prime is connected through microHDMI to the tv?
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Hi Bart,
DVD Catalyst will hard-code the subs into your video files.
If you have any questions, just send me an email or PM. If it makes it easier, I can reply in Dutch if needed.
^^^
See this is why these guys are the B-E-S-T!!!!
I've tried DVD Catalyst, and wow, it's amazingly fast!
I'm impressed bij the simplicity and the quality!
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Hi Bart,
DVD Catalyst will hard-code the subs into your video files.
If you have any questions, just send me an email or PM. If it makes it easier, I can reply in Dutch if needed.
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Gna gna, that makes it a lot easier ;-)
2. I use xilisoft video converter ultimate. The PS3 HD h.264 profile works perfectly.
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Ok, firstly, i used the search, found this thread, didnt help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1427587
I know the prime can read pretty much any video file given the right player, thats not my question.
My problem is most of my bluerays have been converted to digital, in some cases the files are over 10 gigs. Now i CAN play those files on my prime however i can only fit a couple on my sd card before i run out of space.
What im looking for is settings to optimize conversion for best quality the prime can show while reducing the file size to the smallest possible.
For instance, a 1080P video will play at a max resolution of 1280 x 800. Audio can be stripped to stereo instead of 5.1 surround since the prime wont output much better anyways.
Most of my files are MKV format.
WinFF is my software of choice, its worked well for me in the past but there were specific config files for it. Unfortunately i dont know enough about video encoding to know which settings to use for the prime.
Anyone have experience with WinFF? Have other software you use that works better? If anyone has suggestions im open to them. Thanks!
If I remember right, AVS vide converter has that option but it's not free. I'm sure there are free alternatives but I can't name any
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edited first post. WinFF is my software of choice but im not sure what settings to use other than 1050x800 for the resolution. What bit rates should i use, what presets? any ideas?
I wouldn't use x800.
Down-convert to 720p and stick to the Scene rules (attached) and you'll be good.
Edit: looks like the .png attach gets resized to useless. Grab the .c file and rename to .png.
I stick to CD size 700Mb downloads and they seem to work fine whatever the resolution.
I use handbrake (free) to convert my movies. If the movie is 1080p scale it down to 720p. i use the profile from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060825
movies end up being like 2 gb tops and play great. they will even stream with the average wifi signal on the prime.
I do my conversions with RipBot264.
For the Prime, I convert:
Video down to 720p mkv with quality set to High-Profile CQ19 or CQ20. No sense in 1080p unless I'm watching on 40"+ big screen that can show the extra resolution.
I set audio to DD/DTS "5.1 core only" because I use the same files with my laptop (Lenovo X220) which can output 5.1 via HDMI or optical equipped USB sound card ($25 SIIG soundwave in my case). I can understand why some would go down to stereo, but audio data is small compared to video data.., so there's not that much of a size penalty for keeping 5.1 audio since I might actually use it.
Main reason I use RipBot is to deal with movies that have forced subtitles. I can identify the forced subtitle track and have it build/render the subtitles into the video frames. This is so I don't have to deal with whether my device/player supports subtitles correctly. Watching something like District 9 (heavily subtitled) would be a disaster, otherwise.
Size wise, I usually see around an 80-85% reduction in size vs the original source m2ts file.
But this is what I love about the TF201. If I'm in a rush to make a flight, I don't have to convert. It will play the same 1080p CQ18 mkv I use on my XBMC / NAS setup. Heck, it'll even play the raw Bluray m2ts file straight off the disc. Love my TF201.
Ya, as stated in OP PLAYING the videos is never a problem, its just storing more than a couple of those extra high res videos takes a toll on my onboard memory
Thanks for the tips all around, will definately give them a go.
Just use ttorrent. Problem solved.
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dnar56 said:
Just use ttorrent. Problem solved.
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Not quite. Not all movies make it to a torrent. Hand brake as was previously posted is what I've been using for a while and it works great. SUPER works and has presets for quite a few screen types and sound codecs.
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gunz.jones said:
Not quite. Not all movies make it to a torrent. Hand brake as was previously posted is what I've been using for a while and it works great. SUPER works and has presets for quite a few screen types and sound codecs.
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what presets are you using? how do the movies turn out? what file size would an average length movie turn out to?