Many of you might already know about this. But i wanted to find a way to watch movies on my tablet. and i stumbled accross DVD Catalyst. The dev is amazing. If you ever have any problems with anything. He always replys back within the hour, couple hours max. He clams 24 hours. but thats if he is sick or somthing. He sells his software for $9.99. Best ten bucks ive ever spent.
Any Dvds you have laying around the house or can get your hands on. You can easily rip and convert in one process. to any device basically ever made. (he has a couple thousand devices to choose from) So with device choosen, it will automatically format and have correct resolution for specified device.
Theres a bunch of differnt settings to tweak with if you know what you doing. or just keep on default for best results for average user. His website www.tools4movies.com he has guides for just about everything. including how to convert for best quality, low space, best quality with less space, ext
The dev (Mitch) also has a couple apps accross all OS's (android, apple, blackberry, kindle, nook) Where you can stream you movie content on your computer to tablet, cell phone, or any other device online. So you don't have to fill up your tablets memory with movie data. instead you stream your movies from computer from anywhere in the world. (With guides of course, how to set up) Its pretty nifty if you ask me. Thats why i'm sharing this with anyone who wants to be able to watch movies on there tablet. without renting them for 5 bucks on the play store. or downloading them illigaly.
If yo have any questions, check out tools4movies.com
or email him at [email protected]
or reply to this post. and ill try to answer anything to my best knowlege, better to go straight to website for detailed questions.
P.S oh ya the price is a lil cheaper right now. at $8.95 i believe, wont last for long.
Seconded: I've been using DVD Catalyst since back when I owned a Nook Color and have used it to convert hundreds of movies. While I have yet to watch one on my TF300, on my HTC Flyer (which replaced the Nook Color) they play great.
Also, the developer is a real stand-up guy and is very helpful, going to far as to monitor various internet discussion forums answering questions from users of the software.
Another awesome thing about the dev. (Mitch) is on those forums he monitors, I've seen him suggest other things besides his software. So he's not out to get everyone to buy it. Of course he will mention DVD catalyst. But he will also suggest other options to choose from. Hard to find Apple like that these days
But this is the reason why I got a Tegra 3 device. This thing plays everything I throw at it, unlike the sorry Tegra 2.
I would never need to convert file format any longer.
superflysocal said:
But this is the reason why I got a Tegra 3 device. This thing plays everything I throw at it, unlike the sorry Tegra 2.
I would never need to convert file format any longer.
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You wouldnt convert to a different format. so our tf300 can recognize the file. The whole reason to convert your dvd is so you don't take up as much space as original dvd. which could be 6 to 8 gb. So instead of 6-8gb you would convert it anywhere from 1-3 gb so no you can store a bunch more movies if you have a big collection. like most pple do
also during conversion. it sets file to our screen resolution. the quality you set it at and any other tweaks you do. which theres so many to choose from. but ya you don't convert it to a format so our tab can read it. you can change the format to whatever you want. thats just not the only point of conversations
The Tegra3 is very powerful, and with players like MX and Dice, it is capable of playing a lot of different video formats that it doesn't support out of the box, which is great if you get your videos from the web, but if you have a large collection of DVDs, you still need a way to get those into a format that you can actually transfer over to your tablet.
But aside from that, if you look around other android-forums, there are a lot of people complaining about issues with playing the video files they already have obtained/created.
With a collection that consists of many differently formatted video files, mkv's and avi's created using different settings, some play better in one player, others play better in another player, and for others you need to tweak with the settings in order to get them to work properly.
By converting your movies, you don't run into this. Sure, it takes some time to actually do the conversion, but once you have your files in the proper format, there is no need to fiddle around anymore, and, the files will play fine on less powerful devices (smartphones or eReader tablets) as well thanks to compatibility with hardware decoding (which also saves a bit on battery usage). And the conversion of files isn't such a big hassle if you can just drop a folder with 10-100 video files onto an application, and start the process with 1 click.
Due to my work, I have a large collection of different tablets, including an iPad3, Kindle Fire, NOOK color, Xoom, Playbook etc, and I can play my video files on every single one without having to install a different player or adjust settings. For the ones that have a memorycard slot, I can just take one of my cards from one, and stick it in another, and know that the videos will play fine.
dsf3g said:
Seconded: I've been using DVD Catalyst since back when I owned a Nook Color and have used it to convert hundreds of movies. While I have yet to watch one on my TF300, on my HTC Flyer (which replaced the Nook Color) they play great.
Also, the developer is a real stand-up guy and is very helpful, going to far as to monitor various internet discussion forums answering questions from users of the software.
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+ 1. I have been using Catalyst for a few years now and I think it is the best converter out there. The tech support is top notch.
Basically I've owned different ipods and enjoy them very much, I've tried rivals but didn't like them for various reasons. I've been using a classic ipod for about 1 year now, nanos before that. I've wanted to test out using just once device for a phone and ipod if possible. The iphone is way too expensive at higher storage (32GB/64GB) for my taste, the cheapest price I can find a 32GB iphone in Europe for is €350, and there are many dodgy sellers out there, of course from apple/other it's much more expensive than that.
So I started my test. I've a nice sony ericsson phone and bought a 32GB SD cheaply online and have tried various media programs to sync songs. Many of them sync very, very, very slowly, the first time, the fifth time...they never speed up. I have many GBs of podcasts too, and there are few programs that do both. Sony's version of itunes called media go...it's easy to use and has many features, but it can be slow and it very frequently makes mistakes - it duplicates songs constantly. I copied my itunes into the media go folders and let the sony program take over and manage, but it's still making mistakes. When you open your music player and you see 4 duplicates of every song in your album...you do want to bounce the phone off the wall. The pc software has full podcast support, sony phones do not...sometimes they show in a playlist...sometimes not.
So..what to do...buy an ipod touch, keep the phone and ipod separate, spend that extra money on an iphone or try another android? Has anyone tried this? There must be other ipod fans who have androids and are asking the same question. :fingers-crossed:
doubleTwist is good for syncing. Certainly far better than Media Go, which is pretty rubbish IMO. doubleTwist is actually reminiscent of iTunes, although it is a lot faster and more responsive on my computer than iTunes (which I have always found to be slow and sluggish).
I still have it installed...I'll give it another go then! I noticed they took away podcast support and make you pay for it. Cheapos! They were supposed to be the free, open alternative to itunes lol.
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I still have it installed...I'll give it another go then! I noticed they took away podcast support and make you pay for it. Cheapos! They were supposed to be the free, open alternative to itunes lol.
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Oh really? I knew they made some features paid, wasn't sure exactly which. Yeah, that sucks
so being a major nokia fan (and even wp8 fan) i thought that the lumia 920 would be my ideal device, heck i view the 185g to be a bonus, since i love hefty phones like the 900 (got big hands) and i always thought tbat i would buy it
except.... it doesnt have the most important feature for me, namely MHL/HDMI. i mean i checked everywhere but it just doesnt seem that the phone has this feature which is a god damn shame, since i would have went all apple and camped outside a store to buy it...
out of curiosity, has anyone used an MHL cable on the 920 to see if it would actually work?
I do not have a cable and no use for it either though to be honest ... deciding against the device based on this one feature sounds a little weird to me. however to answer your question: if i know what to look for or where to get a cable i would let you know .. any pointers maybe?
i got mine over the internet since i can't find it in retail stores.
i need mhl because i watch a lot of movies from my phone to my TV, so it saves a decent amount of money that i would otherwise have to spend on DVD players and stuff like that.
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i got mine over the internet since i can't find it in retail stores.
i need mhl because i watch a lot of movies from my phone to my TV, so it saves a decent amount of money that i would otherwise have to spend on DVD players and stuff like that.
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You can use SmartGlass for a wireless streaming. But you need an Xbox for that. Otherwise the Lumia supports the DLNA standard. So you can use it for wireless video and music streaming to every DLNA-enabled device, such as TV with Smart-function.
Hello everyone,
Like most I've been through the crapple period but now seen the light and all is Android now.
I've just sold on eBay my last apple hardware being my ipod classic 120 gig, this stored once jailbroken with Rock Box all my music in high quality format.
What I now want is to store all my files on a powered hard drive and use my Note or Tab 2 as a tool to connect and play the media by wifi.
Seen the Kingston unit that seems to fit the bill but it looks from what I've read that it's more designed for apples short comings, having once been bitten by buying a TV tuner that struggled with other operating systems as Apple orientated so I'm concerned.
Has anyone got experience using the Kingston wifi media reader with Android and can I ask:
Are you tied to the Kingston app to read files or will other file browsers do the job
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Can you choose your own music player to play the files
Or can anyone advise me an alternative method to store 100gig high quality format for easy playback on my Android gadgets.
Hope I've explained my concern clearly enough.
Cheers, tj
Basically, I'm planning to buy another phone and all that and this time I was thinking to go a little different. Either buy another android phone or get a windows phone. And what I'm only going to use it for is, Social networking, Watching movie/animes etc, play emulators and games in good and mainly listening to music.
So what's your suggestion guys?
And any Cons/Pros?