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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
for video conversions I like using the program "super"
www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html
Download link is at the bottom of the page.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk
Bart1981 said:
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?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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!
dvdcatalyst said:
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Gna gna, that makes it a lot easier ;-)
2. I use xilisoft video converter ultimate. The PS3 HD h.264 profile works perfectly.
Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using Tapatalk
Related
Hello
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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 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?
Maximus1000 said:
Thank you for clarifying. I am wondering can I convert the video to the main profile and then get it to work?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
japhule said:
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Sent from my VEGAn-TAB-v1.0.0b2 using Tapatalk
Sprdtyf350 said:
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.
Sent from my VEGAn-TAB-v1.0.0b2 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Sent from my VEGAn-TAB-v1.0.0b2 using Tapatalk
Sprdtyf350 said:
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.
Sent from my VEGAn-TAB-v1.0.0b2 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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+.
Sprdtyf350 said:
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.
Sent from my VEGAn-TAB-v1.0.0b2 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
dkhilo said:
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
First rule of Usenet.....
roebeet said:
First rule of Usenet.....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Okay I'm doing the Madagascar penguin "you didn't see anything gesture" now. LOL.
Sent from my GTablet-TnT-Lite using Tapatalk
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).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
rob_z11 said:
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?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Video Playback
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.
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.
------------------------------
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...
Questions or Problems Should Not Be Posted in the Development Forum
Please Post in the Correct Forums
Moving to Q&A
Hello all,
First post here excuse my noobage. I have an extensive blu ray collection with several digital copies with them. Just curious, will the galaxy tab play blu rays at all? I was thinking of putting them on an an external hard drive but I'm not sure either are supported. I have the usb adaptor, would it be my best bet to throw them on a flash drive, if in fact blu rays will play at all? I am currently rooted if this makes any difference..
Thanks in advance
Nope, no bluray support. Your best bet is learning to rip and encode specifically for the device or ripping and streaming from a PC to the device using something like Plex.
There are various ripping and encoding solutions out there though with varying degrees of difficulty. Im not sure what the easiest would be but for myself I use Anydvd to rip and Handbrake to encode.
Good Luck!
Wait, are you saying the galaxy tab wont even play a bluray rip in mp4 format?
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium
To be clear, I interpreted the original post to be asking if a GT 10.1 can play a bluray either straight from a USB bluray drive OR as a straight rip from the disc itself (i.e. all bluray structure intact, no re-encoding/recompression done to the original movie). That's my definition of a rip, to copy the content off not to recompress it. The answer to that is a resounding no, these tegra 2 based tablets just can't handle that kind of task.
Ripping and then re-encoding will work provided the encoding method produces a file the device supports. As I said, I use Handbrake. Generally in Handbrake I start with the regular high profile and then on the audio tab I'll just do a single AAC track at a bitrate of 160 and on the advanced tab I'll turn off max b-frames, cabac, 8x8 transform and weighted p-frames. On the picture side I'll drop the resolution down to 1280 width (letting the height be whatever it needs to). On the video tab I'll try either a constant quality setting (20-22 depending on the movie) or I'll go for a 2-pass encode using a target bitrate of 3500 or so. Resulting videos in MP4 format play great in Dice player.
I'll also add that for those storing a handful of movies and TV shows on your tabs for travel Mizuu's a great little XBMC type app that adds some flair to your collection. Really like having the widgets up on my video hub homescreen and picking shows/movies from there and then getting details on movie content or episode info in an XBMC type format.
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!
[EDIT]
I can't find "PS3 Media Server" on Google Play, mind sharing the link?