sorry if this is the wrong place to post but i am a noob, is there a peice of software out there that can play all types of video on the hermes, if so were can i download it
Coreplayer or tmpc... Use search to find...
hey ... core player is what ur looking for. it can play any type of media without converting it .. eats some resources but its very worth it. it also has streaming support and everything. just google search it and ur there. hope this helps
thx so i can now watch anytype of video format and i dont have to convert it,but are all media file types the same size
If you are playing what I think you might be playing then even with Coreplayer the Hermes will not smoothly play standard definition stuff, i.e average 2.35 widescreen DVDRip done at 640*272 with Xvid around 1000kbps (Mgeg4-ASP). Don't even think about x264 films. (Mpeg4-AVC)
The Hermes screen is 320*240 so you will have to convert it.
Hi,
I have all my music library encoded as eaac+ 48kbps parametric stereo as this allows me to fit my entire music library on my microsd card.
Been using my music collection on my HTC HD2 which i soon replaced with the Desire.
Thing is that after some of the tracks i've been listening to started sounding funny, i've investigated more on the issue to find out that the Android eaac+ encoder seems to be doing quite a bad job...
For example the .aac file i've attached sounds almost perfect on my laptop and HD2 (using the same hi quality Sennheiser headphones) but on the desire the low bass sounds are awful, it's just like someone is hitting on a broken drum.
Could someone please help me confirm this issue? Could you try playing the attached test .aac file on the htc desire and let me know if you encounter the same problem with it sounding awful? (Try also on a laptop with latest winamp to see the difference).
Thanks !
Hi ubik,
All my digital audio files are also eaac+ at 48kbps, but are in .m4a containers, not .aac, but that shouldn't make any difference (By the way aac+ with parametric stereo = eaac+). As I'm about to buy a Desire, your post made me think that maybe the Desire doesn't support eaac+, only aac+. Iphones and ipods only support aac+, so eaac+ files come out in mono and sound rubbish on those devices. HTC's website doesn't confirm if the Desire plays eaac+ files, so I contacted HTC via their website, and they confirmed that the Desire supports these audio formats .wma, .aac, .m4a, .mp3, .mp4 and .wav files And these codecs WAV, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, M4A, MP3 and MP4. Therefore if it supports the eaac+ codec, you should get CD quality sound with your eaac+ files at 48kbps. Maybe you should ask HTC about this via their website.
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Hi ubik,
All my digital audio files are also eaac+ at 48kbps, but are in .m4a containers, not .aac, but that shouldn't make any difference (By the way aac+ with parametric stereo = eaac+). As I'm about to buy a Desire, your post made me think that maybe the Desire doesn't support eaac+, only aac+. Iphones and ipods only support aac+, so eaac+ files come out in mono and sound rubbish on those devices. HTC's website doesn't confirm if the Desire plays eaac+ files, so I contacted HTC via their website, and they confirmed that the Desire supports these audio formats .wma, .aac, .m4a, .mp3, .mp4 and .wav files And these codecs WAV, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, M4A, MP3 and MP4. Therefore if it supports the eaac+ codec, you should get CD quality sound with your eaac+ files at 48kbps. Maybe you should ask HTC about this via their website.
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That's funny, I contacted HTC support about playing .m4a files and the reply was, and I quote, "You can not play the m4a files by default on your device and you need to search over the Android market for a compatible application with your device to allow you play such files on your device."
I myself haven't been able to playback .m4a files with several music players, including the default HTC one and players downloaded from the market.
Is anyone actually able to play this file type?
SpaceGooner said:
Hi ubik,
All my digital audio files are also eaac+ at 48kbps, but are in .m4a containers, not .aac, but that shouldn't make any difference (By the way aac+ with parametric stereo = eaac+). As I'm about to buy a Desire, your post made me think that maybe the Desire doesn't support eaac+, only aac+. Iphones and ipods only support aac+, so eaac+ files come out in mono and sound rubbish on those devices. HTC's website doesn't confirm if the Desire plays eaac+ files, so I contacted HTC via their website, and they confirmed that the Desire supports these audio formats .wma, .aac, .m4a, .mp3, .mp4 and .wav files And these codecs WAV, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, M4A, MP3 and MP4. Therefore if it supports the eaac+ codec, you should get CD quality sound with your eaac+ files at 48kbps. Maybe you should ask HTC about this via their website.
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What i did is dump my eaac+ converted music library as it sounded bad on my Desire and it was really a lot of music that i did not listen to; being a lot of media files, the music player was very sluggish. I reordered my original mp3s and made a selection of music that i do listen.
I admit, this is not the solution to the problem (using mp3s instead of eaac+ and using less files because the player is sluggish) but it is a great phone overall and who knows what the future brings (Android 2.2 Froyo for example).
I'm not impressed with how google has failed to respond my bug report, but it's hard for me to find faults with this phone, after using the HTC HD2 i'm wondering how i could live with winmo's faults all this time
Hey,
I plan to buy a Desire, but this could be a dealbreaker for me:
Does this occur with AAC+ (e.g. HE-AACv1, without Parametric Stereo) as well? My whole music library is in that format!
It would be really great if somebody could confirm the situation. If you don't have access to any AAC+ files of your own, I uploaded one to drop.io/3q2r8b7/asset/desire-heaac-test-zip in MP3, AAC+ (HE-AAC v1) and eAAC+ (HE-AAC v2).
Thanks!
hi,
all three files sound ok on my desire (i can tell very little difference between them)
maybe you should try giving me something with more base sound (this is where i notices the problem)
you gave me symphonic music which has more of the high notes
ubik said:
hi,
all three files sound ok on my desire (i can tell very little difference between them)
maybe you should try giving me something with more base sound (this is where i notices the problem)
you gave me symphonic music which has more of the high notes
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Thank you very much for testing.
I've now uploaded another track with more bass in it: drop.io/3q2r8b7/asset/backleg-heaac-test-zip
Hi,
i've tried these three files on my desire and they sound just fine !
can you tell us the exact settings u've used for music encoding? we might be onto something here...
ubik said:
Hi,
i've tried these three files on my desire and they sound just fine !
can you tell us the exact settings u've used for music encoding? we might be onto something here...
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I've encoded them with the Nero AAC Codec, Version 1.5.4.0, with the command line parameters -br 32000 for the v2 one, and -br 48000 for the v1 (Nero autoselects the appropriate codec for the chosen bitrate that way).
Did you encode your 48kbps files to HE-AAC v2? That could be the cause of your problem; v2 uses Parametric Stereo, which can improve quality for very low bitrates (<32kbps); but for 48kbps you usually get better results with just using HE-AAC v1.
Be sure to use the newest version from www .nero.com/enu/downloads-nerodigital-nero-aac-codec.php, as the change log specifically mentions some fixed incompatibilities with some hardware devices.
my files for the most part are AAC in mp4 or m4a extensions.
done myself with belight and neros AAC encoder. haven't had any problems at all with the default player or meridian
p.s some are about 2-3 years old at least and still play fine. older ones are mp3 though
I had a similar problem with my Desire. Music sounded AWFUL. Lots of clicks and pops on drum sounds. I normalized the mp3s to 90% and it seems to have fixed it.
I installed coreplayer on my AT&T Tilt2, and it says, for a video I want to play, that AVC aka H.264 is not supported by the player. I have seen sites that say it is, and it isn't supported. What is the story, and is there any way to have coreplayer play this video or do I have to convert it?
thanks!
as far as i know all usa phones support h.264 streaming but as for the playback you'll need to use a new media player (try vplayer).
There are several different profiles of H.264. The hardware only supports Baseline profile, many sites are using Main or High profile for their streams. Hardware acceleration won't work for those, and the CPU is too slow to play them back reasonably without acceleration.
Rather than bump a thread in a legacy device I figured Id ask here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=1034574
I cant get pocketplayer to play ipod .mp4's, the conduit forum does not appear to work
As a long years (and still) pocketplayer user I can tell you that PP will only rely on the registered codecs that are suported with WMPlayer as well. I guess that WMPlyer will also not play these.
Contrary to that Coreplayer will play almost everything and the codec support of the predecessor TCPMP is also ok for video.
Thanks tobbie, Im trying to find an alternative to coreplayer because I can not get avrcp to work on coreplayer
I use Pocketplayer for Music and (rarely) Coreplayer for Videos. AVRCP should work for both via activating the relevant WMP plugins in the players. Depending on the device it is usually the "Key Mapping" plugin.
Hi,
Anyone here use HE-AAC files? Is there any workaround or fix. Is anyone able to play 64kbps encoded HE-AAC music files in this phone with quality? 64kbps HE-AAC is supposed to give 192kbps Mp3 music quality.. i've been using HE-AAC on my xperia and previous smartphones.. however HE-AAC files are not at all working properly with samsung phones, its not androids fault as my xperia can play them. However my samsung wave 3 and galaxy w is unable to decode them properly, they are decoding HE-AAC as LC-AAC