Hi I took a 3min video today of my daughters 2nd birthday.. she was blowing the candles out.. and I filmed this event on my sgs3
As I did this on high quality.. Iand now have a 500mb video file... How can I best re-encode it to a much smaller file that I could post on tumblr, etc? I tried handbrake but I could only squeeze it down to 180mb.. it seems excessive for a 3min video
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Recording in 720p eats up way too much memory. I believe it has to do with its codec (3gp). My sony camcorder can record in 1080p and eat up way less memory than my vibrant. Is there any app that will give more video codec features we can choose from?
Not sure what you mean. I recorded in 1080p at the Falcon's game last Sunday and had well over an hour worth of time to record. Not bad for a phone IMHO.
I meant that the vibrant phone camcorder records in 720p and eats up too much memory than a regular hd home camcorder would. A 10 minute video recorded from the vibrant takes up more than 700mb while a 1080p video recorded from my sony home camcorder takes up less than half of that. I think it has to do with the video format of the vibrant. I wonder if there is an app that can allow us to choose another video format other than 3gp to record with.
you cannot change the codec, and just so you know that 3gpp is just the container that holds the video but the video can be MGEP-4(XVID/DVIX) or H264 or many others. But our phones only record in H264 video and AAC audio and contain it in the 3GPP file. What I do is send my videos to youtube immediately so that they are cleared off my phone and youtube will convert them to a better H264 format and the MP4 container. So as of now you cannot change the quality of the camcorder and make it record a lesser video file.
Guess you just have to keep in mind that its a phone first, camcorder second. That's why you own a camcorder in the first place. You wouldn't expect your camcorder to get better calls than your phone would you?
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Guess you just have to keep in mind that its a phone first, camcorder second. That's why you own a camcorder in the first place. You wouldn't expect your camcorder to get better calls than your phone would you?
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I do agree that it is a phone first, but in todays world of digital everything it is nice to shed as much as you can and have an all in one device. I for one don't want to carry around a digital camera, camcorder and phone, so I picked the one that did the best of all three.
As for running out of memory there is a 32gig SD card option until someone can hack the codec to allow tweaking of the compression ratio, then again the CPU in the phone might not be able to keep up with the video being taken if it has to work to hard to compress the video more.
Not to hard to copy the files off the phone to your PC and covert away.
I believe I read that froyo firmwares record more efficiently in the MP4 container
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I believe I read that froyo firmwares record more efficiently in the MP4 container
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that doesn't really make any sense. the video doesn't get put into a final true container until its done recording, its just a temp file while its doing it, and video containers dont affect quality, just playback
I know what you mean, but I believe they improved the quality as well as changing the container.
Hey guys,I've been reading a lot about how well the GS2 plays movies/videos,but I haven't found an answer to this.Can it play files larger than 2gigs?My Desire HD plays 720p mp4's flawlessly(almost) unless the file size is more than 2 gigs.In that case it won't even open thw file.
Any answer appreciated as 9/10 of the movies I have are high quality 720p and 1080p matroska files to play on my PS3,not some 700kbps ****-quality 500megs file.
Thanks!
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
It can play anything up to 4GB, but the file system wont allow you to transfer a file larger than 4GB. If you have some 8GB mkv files you will need to split them somehow.
It's not the file size that's important, although FAT32 has a limit of 4gb for a single file you can split a file up. It's the bitrate that's important, and so far the Galaxy s2 has played everything I've thrown at it, including very high bitrate 1080p files. It's perfect for video playback.
You can use MKV toolnix to split MKV files. It'll only take a few minutes since all it does is demux, split and remux the file. Since you're using MKV files i'm assuming you're tech savvy enough to navigate the GUI. It's pretty simple.
I won't quote because my multi-quote doesn't feel like working the last few days.
So,thank you all guys for your answers.
@jgittins
I know there is the fat32 limitation,wouldn't be around if I didn't! Splitting the videos is easy,reencoding is a pain in the ass(3-7 hours on my PC ).
@RXP
Bitrate,withing some sane limits at least,wasn't a problem for the DHD either.I encode a high profile 720p video clip from Avenged Sevenfold(I'm a big fan ) which lasts some 4 minutes and it plays heavenly.I use exactly the same settings for a movie(That turns out about 3.5 gigs) and it won't play.I use lower quality(not only bitrate) so that it turns out to be just less than 2 gigs(by chance at that time) and it plays really good.I then,out of curiosity,split the 3.5 gigs file to two equal sized files and it plays super smooth too!So the problem is a 2 gig limit on the DHD.As long as there is no such thing on SGS2 I'm extra fine,as the DHD will need reencoding nontheless,it can't play mkv's.
@Sticks02
Geek is my middle name pal!
Thanks,I'll try that and see how it goes.Even if I can't use it at first I'll eventually do it(I learn really easily ).
This is a sample (or rather many samples put together) of video taken by our new phone. I'm by no means any kind of professional video editor.
The video was taken in 1080p, antishake, auto white balance, superfine quality. A total of 3.8 gigs of video was taken (and trimmed).
This video was done as a joke, a type of roast, for a co-worker leaving. Youtube MAY be removing the audio clips in the video since they are copyrighted.
http://youtu.be/keXapd9gYME
Be sure to choose 1080p in the quality setting depending on your connection.
I've been trying to find information about this but I have been unable to yet (likely due to how new it is). I'm trying to find the best settings to re-encode my videos for a balance of quality and size.
Test the NT's video capability here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1348488
As for encoding specs, it's simple: conform to MP4 specs (H.264, AAC stereo) if you want to use built-in player and hardware accel.
Newbies tend to obsess with encoding parameters, and there've been reams of how-to's for Handbrake encoding. You don't have to bother with any of that. The 4430 should handle anything in 720p, and the majority of 1080p. I would use the default settings of whatever encoder you prefer.
For quickie conversion to MP4 (from common formats), see my VidsOpt script conversion in the above link.
Thank you for the information. And it's not so much worrying about all the settings but trying to maximize how many shows/movies I can hold on the NT at once. I travel a lot for work and some of the flights are LONG so having as many options as possible is what I'm really looking for since it wouldn't be as simple as just loading other videos onto the NT at the time.
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Thank you for the information. And it's not so much worrying about all the settings but trying to maximize how many shows/movies I can hold on the NT at once. I travel a lot for work and some of the flights are LONG so having as many options as possible is what I'm really looking for since it wouldn't be as simple as just loading other videos onto the NT at the time.
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Get a 32 GB uSD card. I can hold 20+ hours of video on mine.
>to maximize how many shows/movies I can hold on the NT
There are two ways to lower a movie's size, reduce the resolution, or reduce the quality. Both are a personal preference.
A 90min movie averages 800MB-1GB, encoded at 480p and standard quality. Then, you can fit 32 such movies onto a 32GB uSD. With a larger res, you can fit fewer. You can also of course have more than one uSD card.
Getting ready for the Thanksgiving drive and saw this question, so did a test re-encode of Green Lantern. Original file is a 720p mkv
Video Bitrate: 720p (1280x536 @ 4811kbps)
Audio Bitrate: DTS @ 1509 kbps
Using Handbrake Normal as the baseline.
1) Container MP4, left extension as .m4v
2) Picture: changed Anamorphic to Loose, Width to 1024 (assumed native width was a good idea to reduce size)
3) Video: Video Codec x264 which means encode took about 50 minutes. Constant Quality 22
4) Audio: AAC Mixdown to Stereo, Samplerate Auto, Bitrate 160
5) Subtitles: need to play around with this later
Original mkv filesize was 5.7GB
.m4v file was 913MB
To me, it looked absolutely great. Could not complain and actions scenes didn't show any sign of stutter. Didn't watch the whole thing through, but didn't seem to come across any problems either.
I'm sticking with these settings and will see if there are any changes required.
I'm not a video encoding expert or a Handbrake expert - but I think I know enough and need at least 3-4 movies for the drive.
Hope that helps.
Thank you very much, I'm going to give those settings a try when I get home.
The settings are working great. So much that I actually put the setting into a preset file for anyone else that wants it in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1361819. Thank you very much for your help iron_c
I use Xilisoft to convert movies to MP4. I have done a few for this device. They look smooth most of the time but if the movie has alot of action in a scene the picture gets somewhat pixelated.
I have converted to the correct screen size and aspect ratio. Bit rate at 1200 and FPS at 29.97.
Any idea what the optimum settings would be for this device?
im not convert videos...
I use MX Video and i watch all formats (avi, mpeg, rmvb).
Last movie (yesteday), i see Farenheint 9-11, bitrate was 720 and very good image.