So i think it's time to upgrade my Xperia Arc to a better phone.
I think the S2 is the best that I can get with my currently available money, and it seems to tick all the boxes.
Only one thing concerns me, I use my Arc's HDMI A LOT (as in 2+ hours/day) for movies and such, but it's limits are quickly reached, so I want to know if the S2 is able to stream big (3-4 gb+) 1080p/720p MKV files on my TV without losing frames and without missing subtitles.
Also, is a 2.3 S2 more capable of playing such files than a 4.0+ S2? I ask this because from what I know ICS isn't very well optimized
Thanks in advance for any helpful answers!
Warmo said:
So i think it's time to upgrade my Xperia Arc to a better phone.
I think the S2 is the best that I can get with my currently available money, and it seems to tick all the boxes.
Only one thing concerns me, I use my Arc's HDMI A LOT (as in 2+ hours/day) for movies and such, but it's limits are quickly reached, so I want to know if the S2 is able to stream big (3-4 gb+) 1080p/720p MKV files on my TV without losing frames and without missing subtitles.
Also, is a 2.3 S2 more capable of playing such files than a 4.0+ S2? I ask this because from what I know ICS isn't very well optimized
Thanks in advance for any helpful answers!
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yes s2 is capable of streaming 1080/720 MKV files for sure and 2.3 and 4.0.3 ar both good at it
btw, is the internal memory of the S2 NTFS or FAT32? i need to know this if i am to transfer 4+ gb files on it.
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btw, is the internal memory of the S2 NTFS or FAT32? i need to know this if i am to transfer 4+ gb files on it.
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FAT32
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I watch a bunch a movies on my s2, its a decent size and the quality makes it bearable. Not even bothered about hook in it up to tv
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As the title...
Early on I was trying to directly put them on the phone storage, but since the file system is also FAT32, there is a size limit of 4GB, so the uploaded video file is incomplete and cannot play properly, so I'm wondering if there is someway to put those 7G+ files onto the phone without cutting them... Thanks
You need to use KIES. It'll chop up the file into two parts automatically when you move it over.
Sticks02 said:
You need to use KIES. It'll chop up the file into two parts automatically when you move it over.
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So I did use KIES to move it over, first used the "transfer to device" option in the KIES library, then instead used the "sync" option in the connected device panel, both will only give me half of the mkv file, instead of two cut parts, so could you explain a bit more in detail? Thanks
Why do you want to put a 1080p movie on your phone? You realise the res of the screen isn't even 720p? Just convert it down to 720p and you wont even notice a difference.
There's a huge difference between SD and 720p though obviously. 720p to 1080p is largely unnoticeable on the phone though and just a waste of space.
drm111 said:
Why do you want to put a 1080p movie on your phone? You realise the res of the screen isn't even 720p? Just convert it down to 720p and you wont even notice a difference.
There's a huge difference between SD and 720p though obviously. 720p to 1080p is largely unnoticeable on the phone though and just a waste of space.
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yeah you have a point, but sometimes 720p movies do come with a size bigger than 4GB as well, then someway of proper transfer is still needed...
Honestly I'd say if you're going to convert the video anyway, why not convert it to the screens native resolution. Same quality, less processor usage so better battery life, and then you don't need to split the file (since i dont think any 800*480 resolution video file should reasonably surpass 4gb )
drm111 said:
Why do you want to put a 1080p movie on your phone? You realise the res of the screen isn't even 720p? Just convert it down to 720p and you wont even notice a difference.
There's a huge difference between SD and 720p though obviously. 720p to 1080p is largely unnoticeable on the phone though and just a waste of space.
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Maybe he want to watch on TV, although MHL adapter is not available yet.
alexcarterkarsus said:
As the title...
Early on I was trying to directly put them on the phone storage, but since the file system is also FAT32, there is a size limit of 4GB, so the uploaded video file is incomplete and cannot play properly, so I'm wondering if there is someway to put those 7G+ files onto the phone without cutting them... Thanks
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Anyway you can use "mkvtoolnix" or any other similar program to split the mkv video and then put in the phone.
I'm tired of hearing people over and over again asking why other people would want to play HD movies on their phone "when the screen resolution is only.... blah blah blah"
please do shut up and/or by an iphone and go bore the iclones with your ignorance.
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Maybe he want to watch on TV, although MHL adapter is not available yet.
Anyway you can use "mkvtoolnix" or any other similar program to split the mkv video and then put in the phone.
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and this mkvtoolnix can ensure there is no out of sync with audio and video? I hope it is simply cutting, not transcoding... but thanks
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and this mkvtoolnix can ensure there is no out of sync with audio and video? I hope it is simply cutting, not transcoding... but thanks
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sure, no out of sync or transcoding and believe me it is very simple
11.5gb 1080p video, 4 minutes to split on my 3,2Ghz core 2 quad
format micro sd card to ext4, and put it there
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or download it from the net, or torrent it to your phone
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Hi
I have split 3 1080p movies in part on 3.5 GB with mkvmerge
In PC it's OK 100%
But in GSII, I have no audio.
In my Samsung TV, there is an error message (DLNA)
Any one have successfully split a 1080p movie and watch it on a TV ?
thx
I have no audio too on MKV files.
What seems to be the problem?!
Regards.
The included player doesn't support DTS, so that could be the problem.
guys, I've been reading alot about the Ace and i'm very interested in buy one, however there are some information that I didn't find anywhere
1) Can the mobile handle AVI dvdrips with an external app like rock player?
-my brother have a Galaxy 5 (I5503), and there are alot of dropped frames and audio synchronization problems, probably due to the slow 600hz processor, wondering if the Ace have the same problem.
2) I'm a fan of physics based games, angry birds, tank hero and stuff like that.
and sometimes the casual racing or adventure games.
- I heard that the Ace can handle these perfectly at first, but it lags few levels into the game, wanted to see if people experienced that.
I find it a very solid phone with its own territory between galaxy S and galaxy 5, however if it can't handle these, i would wait and save for an S.
what do u guys think?
android_and_me said:
guys, I've been reading alot about the Ace and i'm very interested in buy one, however there are some information that I didn't find anywhere
1) Can the mobile handle AVI dvdrips with an external app like rock player?
-my brother have a Galaxy 5 (I5503), and there are alot of dropped frames and audio synchronization problems, probably due to the slow 600hz processor, wondering if the Ace have the same problem.
2) I'm a fan of physics based games, angry birds, tank hero and stuff like that.
and sometimes the casual racing or adventure games.
- I heard that the Ace can handle these perfectly at first, but it lags few levels into the game, wanted to see if people experienced that.
I find it a very solid phone with its own territory between galaxy S and galaxy 5, however if it can't handle these, i would wait and save for an S.
what do u guys think?
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I can tell you, I play ANGRY BIRDS too and DRIFT SHIFTING(SPECIALLY SUGEST THAT ONE). Of course you have SOMETIMES some 0,0..... sec LAG, but its ONLY few times in playing. To me its enought GOOD phone. I LOVE IT!
CHEERS!
I never have lags on any of those apps. Just if you have powerful apps running they I would shut them off first.
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Thanks for the info guys, and i'm still wondering about avi playack performance, can it easily play say a 700MB movie file?
and if u can mention what are the apps u had trouble running, just to know what i might miss in this phone.
thanks again
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Thanks for the info guys, and i'm still wondering about avi playack performance, can it easily play say a 700MB movie file?
and if u can mention what are the apps u had trouble running, just to know what i might miss in this phone.
thanks again
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About AVI files, I dont try them out yet. But for app, IMAO I dont like JUICE DEFENDER(eating battery too much, if you miss some settings)!
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Well angry birds does lag is some levels and i tried playing some 480p youtube flv rips and a mkv but the software decoding was too slow for me.
redlag said:
Well angry birds does lag is some levels and i tries playing some 480p youtube flv rips and a mkv but the software decoding was too slow for me.
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did u try other version of angry birds, i heard that Rio was quite laggy, almost unplayable.
I imagine MKV files to be very hard to encode, even for a Galaxy S, and the 480p flv is designed to be smaller in size, hence requires more processing which might cause jerky playback
But the AVI, can't believe no one tried an AVI file.. lol
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Thanks for the info guys, and i'm still wondering about avi playack performance, can it easily play say a 700MB movie file?
and if u can mention what are the apps u had trouble running, just to know what i might miss in this phone.
thanks again
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I read in net, some where, that AVI not supported. You can try convert AVI to mp4. You can convert with Format Factory or Handbrake(freeware) software.
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yea I know that AVI is not supported natively, thats why i mentioned that u need an app for it.
conversion is not a bad option, but it takes more time and i was hoping i could avoid that
Hello there!
A newbie here who just got an Ace yesterday, and I can confirm that AVI playback on Rock Player is quite smooth and decent
felixx.mo said:
Hello there!
A newbie here who just got an Ace yesterday, and I can confirm that AVI playback on Rock Player is quite smooth and decent
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Congratz on the phone, and this is excellent news for me
but, can u give me some details about the avi file, size, length, encoding?
android_and_me said:
Congratz on the phone, and this is excellent news for me
but, can u give me some details about the avi file, size, length, encoding?
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Umm I'm not sure about encoding and stuff, it was a regular 20 minute tv show, about 200 MB in size, DVD rip I think, and it was preety smooth and it looked nice, I think even subtitles are possible to enable but I didn't use any
felixx
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Umm I'm not sure about encoding and stuff, it was a regular 20 minute tv show, about 200 MB in size, DVD rip I think, and it was preety smooth and it looked nice, I think even subtitles are possible to enable but I didn't use any
felixx
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ok that what i was hoping for
if u ever get the chance to try out a 40 minute tv show (350MB) or a full 700MB movie, please tell me
thanks alot
Can anyone provide the best Handbrake settings for ripping DVDs?
I'm interested in opinions as well on this matter.
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Back when I had my Captivate I used these settings:
http://capfaq.com/w/Transferring_movies_from_DVD
I put these movies on my Note and they're all still excellent quality. I was assuming that the quality my suffer due to the Note's large size, but it's still great. And with these settings, I'd say about 75% of the movies I encoded were less than a gig and most less than 900MB.
Am I missing something? What does this have to do with the Note?
The note...being sent down to us by the gods (why...what gods you ask? Ill tell ya...the AMOLED gods, the robot gods, and the HD gods...and they frown on crabbiness.) and being so well endowed, is quite the media consumption device. What the OP was trying to figure out...was how he might best take advantage of such a wondrous and surely godly device.
And the movie industry...being ungodly as they are, makes an all-hands-on-deck effort to obfuscate and obscure any clearly delineated path to enjoying popcorn-tasting-finger-licking-goodness on the go. For this is their only purpose in life..besides, making movies, of course.
I might add...high profile is. Lovely. On the same subject... I've only used CIFSManger and allshare in combination with TVersity to play media...i use Netflix on the go. But Im curious as well...does anyone know which format and container is required to play native HW decoded video on the note? Does the container event matter? I know i can usually find a video player that can play any video file, but i have issues with .Mkv the most...and the pseudo-5.1 audio and the native player is nice....real nice.....really really niiiiiiiiiiiiiccccccccceeeeeee.
HW decoding is always a plus. And its easier on the battery too.
kimtyson said:
Am I missing something? What does this have to do with the Note?
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I was just wondering if anyone had encoded any of their DVDs to play on the Note. I've used Handbrake previously to watch movies on my Captivate and thought someone might have played around enough to have optimal settings for the Note. Using the settings I had for my Captivate, the picture/sound quality is pretty great on the Note.
I use MakeMKV for both blu rays and dvds. (correct me if im wrong) as far as i know, it's like flac. Compresses the video with no loss of quality in both video and audio.
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iTunes movies 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
handbrake settings
kimtyson said:
Am I missing something? What does this have to do with the Note?
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For me its abuot file size. While I have been able to get a 64gb card to work on the GNote, I still am limited by the fat32 4gb restriction, so I am interested in settings for compression. I have many downloaded files bigger than 4gb.
You just answered a 13 month old post.
Yeah, well now we have his opinion. Better late than never.
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studacris said:
You just answered a 13 month old post.
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:laugh: Yeah, just before you did.:good:
I am currently using Handbrake to convert my videos to Andorid High and lets say the quality is not that great compared the the original MKV file. Does anyone know any particular settings? Or an alternative software?
Thanks
I Suggest Xmediarecode! I get really good looking results with it, but it takes some time if you want really high quality videos. It also gets updates about every 3rd week, i think handbrake is dead or something.
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andoridkiller said:
I am currently using Handbrake to convert my videos to Andorid High and lets say the quality is not that great compared the the original MKV file. Does anyone know any particular settings? Or an alternative software?
Thanks
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Google Android HD Handbrake or the like.
Also
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus/442868-convert-owned-movies-handbrake.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVBpeQNWbEQ
Thanks guys, only reason im asking is becuase I cant seem to transfer hte 8gb 720p movie to my xperia as it wont let me saying the file is too big and sony has restricted it, otherwise I would use the MX player.
MKV Files play fine on my XS. Why convert them?
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MKV Files play fine on my XS. Why convert them?
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Because my movie is about 8gb and it wont let me transfer it as its too big. Sony have locked it so you can transfer a file greater than some amount.
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Because my movie is about 8gb and it wont let me transfer it as its too big. Sony have locked it so you can transfer a file greater than some amount.
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It's about the sd card fat32 partion that only allows 4gb file size max.
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Because my movie is about 8gb and it wont let me transfer it as its too big. Sony have locked it so you can transfer a file greater than some amount.
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You can transfer any file search on Google "how to transfer big Files on fat32"
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Is there anyway to unlock this n transfer large files?
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Because my movie is about 8gb and it wont let me transfer it as its too big. Sony have locked it so you can transfer a file greater than some amount.
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What format have you encoded THAT to? Sounds far too large a file for even an HD video. And ... as another has said, that 'lock' isn't Sony, it's the format of FAT-32.
I use Miro and Handbrake to convert. Handbrake is the more flexible software (the new version [0.9.6] has an 'Android High' setting that should serve most people).
Handbrake lives !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Killerhakan said:
I Suggest Xmediarecode! I get really good looking results with it, but it takes some time if you want really high quality videos. It also gets updates about every 3rd week, i think handbrake is dead or something.
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No ! ... Handbrake lives ... it is alive and well and better than ever !!! ... get it here : http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php
Hello gentlemen and ladies...
I am wondering if it is yet possible to have a format on my micro sd card that will let me play files larger then 4 gb in size. My intentions are to use my phone as media player, as i would like to buy a miracast device so i can do wireless streaming to my 1080p projector, or take it on the road with me to stream to a hotel HDTV, in full resolution.
I have a galaxy S2 phone with 32 gb micro sd size (would like to upgrade to a larger size), and just upgraded to jelly bean...
My question, is this possible, and if yes could someone tell/show me how i might be able to accomplish this feat? (the ONLY thing that bothers me about android is the 4gb limit, with phones being able to play 1080p movies it makes little to no sense to me!)
Thanks for you time
Jim
spinny40 said:
Hello gentlemen and ladies...
I am wondering if it is yet possible to have a format on my micro sd card that will let me play files larger then 4 gb in size. My intentions are to use my phone as media player, as i would like to buy a miracast device so i can do wireless streaming to my 1080p projector, or take it on the road with me to stream to a hotel HDTV, in full resolution.
I have a galaxy S2 phone with 32 gb micro sd size (would like to upgrade to a larger size), and just upgraded to jelly bean...
My question, is this possible, and if yes could someone tell/show me how i might be able to accomplish this feat? (the ONLY thing that bothers me about android is the 4gb limit, with phones being able to play 1080p movies it makes little to no sense to me!)
Thanks for you time
Jim
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So no work around exists?
You need to look at/search for threads like this
That thread should give you a starting point in your research; but to answer your question directly, not easily.