I've looked around the site and seen some instructions for converting videos like .avi for playback on the htc hero, but I was just wondering what was the best, most recent way for playback, quality, sound etc etc.
I used to use Total Video Converter to just convert them for me, but I'd like a better way.. if there is one.
Thanks guys.
Use Handbrake.
i use SUPER converter (erightsoft)
i like the way i can customize settings before i convert
this is the settings i use:
Output Container: Mp4
Video Codec: H.264/AVC
Audio Codec: AAC LC
Scale Size: 480 x 320
Aspect: 3:2
F/s: 23.976
Bitrate: 1344
Sampling Freq: 44100
Bitrate: 128
Hi Guys I need some advice on how to make 1080p/720p movies play better when playing on SGS2.
My Conversion from my SGS1
video
h.264/avc
800x480 cropped
30fps
bitrate 1500
audio
mpeg-2/4
48000 Hz 16bit
128 kbps
stereo
Suggestions please thanks.
MoboPlayer played all the HD movies I've thrown at it without conversion.
washburn111 said:
Hi Guys I need some advice on how to make movies play better when playing on SGS2.
My Conversion from my SGS1
video
h.264/avc
800x480 cropped
30fps
bitrate 1500
audio
mpeg-2/4
48000 Hz 16bit
128 kbps
stereo
Suggestions please thanks.
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you can just transfer your movie file to the SD card or internal memory and play it directly using the video player... it works... i had tried with a movie of 2GB size,.. works flawlessly...really good
1080p/720p
Hey guys I'm sorry I forgot to mention that the movies I wanted to convert are 1080p HD movies at around 15Gb per movie. I wanted to get a bit more from from my sgs2 hence I posted the settings I used for my sgs1.
I am getting ready to convert some movies to H.264 to play on my View. What are the ideal resolution and bitrate settings for good quality viewing? I was looking at using 720x480(I think this is standard for ntsc dvd) with a bitrate of 768 or 896 for the video and 128 for the audio. Any ideas/thoughts/suggestions?
I've been trying to find the best encoding settings for HD/720p H.264 video for G Tablet with Handbrake and I'm not having much luck. I've followed this article for Notion's tablet (since its also a Tegra 2 tablet) and while the picture is great the playback is jittery. I tried lowing the RF (under Constant Quality) to 25 but it produces the same jitters.
Changing the video codec from H.264 to MPEG-4 (FFmpeg) actually produces little to no playback issues but the picture quality isn't as great (its still good though), but I prefer to use H.264.
Any one have any luck encoding HD H.264 video for their G Tablet? If so, can you share your settings?
Thanks in advance
P.S. - I'm running VEGAn-Tab 5.1.1 and using VPlayer, RockPlayer and QQPlayer to play back the videos (they're all suffering from jittery playback).
h.264 mp4 format
size: 1024*600
bitrate: 2500
Frame rate: 30
sample rate: 44100
this is a view sonic special proset from foxreal video tool, for your refenrence
Hi everyone,
This is my first post on this forum. I am not sure if it is proper to ask my question here. It seems this's a forum for developers? I am not a developer at all. If I posted on the wrong thread I am sorry.
I just bought my Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF201 about a month ago. You see, I am completely a newbie about the tablet things. I have a large collection of Blu-ray discs which I want to put onto my TF201 for watching while traveling around. I found a Blu-ray ripping program (It is called Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper if it matters) that can convert Blu-ray movies to the MP4 format videos for watching on Android tablets.
My question is: I don't know what are the best output settings I should use with the Blu-ray program There are too many technical terms I can hardly understand. Does anyone here have any video conversion experience for Transformer Prime? Any advice or instruction is highly appreciated!
Detailed info about the settings in Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper software:
Format: H.264 Video(*.mp4)
Video settings available are:
Codec - h264
Size(pix) - original; 1280*720; 1440*1080; 1920*1080.
Bitrate(kbps) - original; 4000; 6000; 8000, 10000; 12000.
Frame Rate(fps) - original; 12; 15; 20; 23.976; 24; 25; 29.97; 30.
Audio settings available are:
Codec - aac; ac3.
Sample Rate(hz) - 22050; 32000; 44100; 48000.
Bitrate(bps) - 64000; 96000; 128000; 160000; 256000; 320000; 640000.
Channels - Mono; Stereo; 5.1 channels.
So I haven't done any converting myself, but I think I can help. Ill just go through those settings you listed and give you what i think would be the best choice.
video-
size- 1920*1080 should work since the prime can handle hd
Bitrate - not sure on this one I would imagine that you could go pretty high like 8000-1000
frame rate- 30
Audio-
codec - aac
sampe rate - 44100
bitrate - (idk on this I think anything is fine) 256000
channels- doesn't really matter the prime will only play mono from its own speaker, but if you hook it up it might be able to do more so maybe 5.1 or else stereo
Hope this helps
If you have a large collection of blu-rays that you want on the Prime, then storage space may become an issue, even if you get a micro-SD card. You could try the suggestions made by cmat1120 and see how many GB a single movie takes up. That will help you determine how many movies you'll be able to store on your Prime.
If you plan on watching movies with headphones, I'd recommend going with a stereo audio output. I don't know if 5.1 will do you any good because I don't think that surround sound gets passed through the HDMI port (I haven't been able to get it to work, anyway), and the extra audio channels won't improve headphone quality.
I also recommend going with original frame rate. I don't see a need to change it, and I especially don't see any reason to increase it above the original. That won't magically give you extra frames that don't exist in the first place.
If you're aiming for 1080p HD, then it is 1920 x 1080 with 24 fps. That's where I would start, and I'd adjust the bitrate depending on how much storage space I want to use per movie; a higher bitrate will take up more storage space but will have better quality.
After thinking about it some more, I am changing a recommendation - go with 1280 x 720 resolution. The Prime's display is 1280 x 800, and some of those 800 pixels are dedicated to the bar at the bottom of the screen. The Prime cannot display 1080p on its own screen. If you rip your movies at 1920 x 1080, the Prime will scale it down to 1280 x 720 when it displays it. I don't even think it can display 1080 through HDMI; only 720. Shrinking the movies down to 720 when you decode them will spare you a chunk of storage.
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After thinking about it some more, I am changing a recommendation - go with 1280 x 720 resolution. The Prime's display is 1280 x 800, and some of those 800 pixels are dedicated to the bar at the bottom of the screen. The Prime cannot display 1080p on its own screen. If you rip your movies at 1920 x 1080, the Prime will scale it down to 1280 x 720 when it displays it. I don't even think it can display 1080 through HDMI; only 720. Shrinking the movies down to 720 when you decode them will spare you a chunk of storage.
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It can display 1080 via HDMI, assuming your content is 1080 of course. I'd still go with 720 though.. Personally I can barely tell the difference between 1080 vs 720 up-close.. I have trouble distinguishing the two from 8-10 feet away, and the TFP will only display 720 if you're watching on the tablet.
.mkv 720p
although 1080p isn't a problem either, with dice player you just resize it to fill your screen
and bitrate above 160 if you hear the difference on this device I want your ears
Thank you all very much for your inputs here! Really appreciate.
I've tested with the 1080P settings that cmat1120 suggested to convert my Transformers BD of 2hrs 23min. Guess what? The generated MP4 file is 10.28GB! Although the file played flawlessly with surprisingly good quality on my big computer screen, the huge file size made my Transformers Prime tablet a little it bit hard to cope with.
The 1080P settings generates too huge file. In this way my tablet will only be able to store 2 or 3 movies.
I've also tried to use ac3 5.1 audio settings, but the converted file played without sound on TF201. I think ac3 5.1 makes no sense for Transformer Prime as it will only to be able to produce stereo sound.
I then tried with the 1280*720 settings and the generated file is more acceptable with good quality on TF201. The final file is only 4.14GB. This way my tablet will be able to hold about 6 or 7 movies.
The detailed settings I used as below:
Format: H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)
Video settings:
Codec - h264
Size(pix) - 1280*720
Bitrate(kbps) - 4000
Frame Rate(fps) - 24
Audio settings:
Codec - aac
Sample Rate(hz) - 44100
Bitrate(bps) - 128000
Channels - stereo
The 720P settings also converts faster in the Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper. So I think I will use the above settings for my future conversion.
But if there's any way to make the final size decreases to 2GB around while still keeping the good quality...
Thanks again cmat1120, jkvato, namebrandon and Hawkysoft !
I use DVD Catalyst. It is the best ripping software I've found. It has a bunch of pre-sets for many devices including the Prime. These pre-sets are also set-up for whatever resolution you are looking for from SD to Blue-Ray. This program also has the capability to remove the black bars from certin aspect ratio's. I personaly have not ripped any Blue-Rays but there is a pre-set for HD.
The people who make DVD Catalyst are great at answering e-mail for any problem or question you have. They usually answer within a few hours.
Highly recommended
http://www.tools4movies.com/
I use DVD Catalyst as well, and it's a pretty good program. The downside is that in order to rip blu-rays you also need to buy additional software to decrypt the blu-ray, such as Any DVD HD or DVDfab Passkey for Bluray.
I used DVD Fab HD Decrypter to rip the Bluray to hdd then Handbrake to encode to .mp4 (use the ipad preset). Resulting file size has been fairly small. Puss In Boots.mp4 was < 1G. Other movies have been approx 2G or less.
It's not a one-step solution but both apps are free and both apps work on Linux as well as Windows.
THANK YOU FOR MORE INPUTS HERE!
I find Handbrake is very useful to reduce the file size while keeping relatively good quality.
The generated MP4 file from Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper using the 1080P settings is around 10GB. After using Handbrake to convert again to the iPad format it is now reduced to 1.3GB. Great
The 1.3GB file is now in the .m4v format with resolution 1024*464. It played fairly well on my Transformer Prime and much better on my sister's iPad 2
Also I find if you reduce in Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper the video bitrate(kbps) value to 2000 the generated H264 MP4 file can be even smaller! At 4000kbps it is 4.14GB, but with 2000kbps it is only 2.14GB and the video quality is still quite good. Surprise
So it seems the video bit rate is the main factor deciding the final file's size.
captain0403 said:
THANK YOU FOR MORE INPUTS HERE!
I find Handbrake is very useful to reduce the file size while keeping relatively good quality.
The generated MP4 file from Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper using the 1080P settings is around 10GB. After using Handbrake to convert again to the iPad format it is now reduced to 1.3GB. Great
The 1.3GB file is now in the .m4v format with resolution 1024*464. It played fairly well on my Transformer Prime and much better on my sister's iPad 2
Also I find if you reduce in Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper the video bitrate(kbps) value to 2000 the generated H264 MP4 file can be even smaller! At 4000kbps it is 4.14GB, but with 2000kbps it is only 2.14GB and the video quality is still quite good. Surprise
So it seems the video bit rate is the main factor deciding the final file's size.
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now try to compress it to mpv, 720p and tell me the output ;-p
720p is better than 1080p for the prime, also reduces size, although 1080p isn't a problem either for me.
p.s. the movies i watch are roughly between 4 and 7GB
Series at the otherhand are mostly between 1.5 and 2.5GB makes sense cuz of the time huh?
p.s. i checked the program you use, and it should support mpv compression as well
"now try to compress it to mpv, 720p and tell me the output ;-p"
Thank you Hawkysoft!
Did you mean the MKV format?
I could not find the MPV output format in Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper
captain0403 said:
"now try to compress it to mpv, 720p and tell me the output ;-p"
Thank you Hawkysoft!
Did you mean the MKV format?
I could not find the MPV output format in Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper
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ah yes sorry... thats what i ment yea
I just tested with the MKV 720P settings from Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper and the generated MKV is only 1.52GB! Fairly good size and quality for my Transformer Prime. But my sister's iPad 2 did not even accept the MKV file. You see, my Transformer tablet is better than iPad
The Blu-ray movie I converted with is Toy Story 3 of 1hr 43min long. With the program's CUDA acceleration the conversion only took 56 minutes. Very good!
The detailed settings I used are:
Format: MKV HD Video(*.mkv)
Video settings:
Codec - h264
Size(pix) - 1280*720
Bitrate(kbps) - 2000
Frame Rate(fps) - 24
Audio settings:
Codec - aac
Sample Rate(hz) - 44100
Bitrate(bps) - 128000
Channels - stereo