Can anybody recommend the best video player and DVD to Pocket video format converter for the XDA.
The download links would help a lot!
Thanks,
Igor.
I think you want to visit this site:
http://www.mpegtv.com/wince/pockettv/
I've tried this...I noticed that the xda cant deal with full on divx or mpeg bitrates (e.g. video cd) which is a shame...
Low quality low bitrate clips work fine, anything else stutters and locks the machine up.
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?
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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.
They are the perfect resolution and size for the note I found a bunch on torrents just by searching iTunes 720p they look great way better then the dvdrips I have been using
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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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?
Hi All,
Beside all the different feature that I am using this phone for, me being quite a lawt Music videos fanatic like some of my favourite music video available and runnable on it in best quality.
Now for this, as per the knowledge that I have gather from around the interwebz have installed MX Player Pro 1.7.10 Neon and ARMV7 NEON Codecs. Before this I was not able to run my favourite Videos in high quality 720p/ 1080p generally in *.mkv format and few of them with sound format as *.dts. Now , still the *.dts sound is not playable and the 1080p videos plays with a lot of lag.
So I was wondering what is workaround to this, I mean if required a conversion to format so as there is minimum quality/ transparency/ detailing loss while playing this on my cellphone.
I tried checking around for some convertor like Arcsoft Media Converter 8, however the video quality I was getting out of it was not upto the mark, infact really bad...though I selected top setting in Mobile phone category. May be I am missing on something or not.
Advice on this will be really appreciable.
Looking forward to hear from you guys!!
Found out the guidance here:-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1896293&page=6
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