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putting films on xda2s

hi what is the best encoder and player to put on the xda2s ??? thanks in advance

Encode in WMV using windows media encoder and play in windows media player.
Google encoding wmv for ppc and you'll find a guide on the best configuration for file size to quality.

I found BetaPlayer to be very good as a player: http://betaplayer.corecodec.org/
I used PocketDivxEncoder to make files small enough to fit on my 1GB SD card: http://divx.ppccool.com/

thanks for the tips i will give them a go cheers

Good program
Hi,
I like using DVD2PPC, it plugs into windows media player and is very easy to use. You just do three clicks and sit back and it does all the rest. Really cool stuff, I've ripped 25 movies so far with it and I put two movies at a time on my 1 GIG sd card to watch. Cheers.
Shane

how to compress
can some one help me how to compress movies to fit 1 GB card
How many movies can be put on on 1 GB card !!

i use wmv convertor(for wmv files) and pocket divx encoder (for all other files).
the hindi/indian movies take around 250-320 MB, bcoz of their length.

Thanks
Well where can i find those Software
also can i ripp in the whole movie and how long does it take to rip in a movie of about 90 mins

DVD2ppc
Hey guys
I uploaded the full version of DVD2PPC at the ftp site under the uploads folder. Enjoy! Cheers.
Shane

i'm converting avi files...
90 mins of video takes around 6-10 mins.. depending in the quality and computer speed.

Hey you might wanna try to use windows movie maker which comes as standard on any win xp system, it already has a default setting to change full size movies down to the right size for the BA. it seems a bit slow though, apart from that it works excellently!!

mattross said:
I found BetaPlayer to be very good as a player: http://betaplayer.corecodec.org/
I used PocketDivxEncoder to make files small enough to fit on my 1GB SD card: http://divx.ppccool.com/
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thats what i use, and i find it to be the best program to use for putting movies on xda2s. i can get 2movies on 256mb card, i reckon 8movies on 1gb.

Betaplayer seems to work the best... I've tried the default media player (garbage) and VLC. If I try to play a high bitrate movie over 802.11b it will have buffering issues. The trick is that the file needs to no larger than 320x240 otherwise it will use precious processing cycles to resize the video.
It's kind of weird though... If I watch my web server it uploads around 100 kilobytes/sec normally and when the buffer underruns and it's actually trying to refill the buffer it goes around 300 kilobytes/sec. I've always wondered why it can't deal with keeping the buffer full...? Or is it too busy rendering the video?

@shane:
did it get removed? i looked at the uploads folder on the ftp site and it aint there.

Best dvd compression software to watch movie on Dash?

I haven't tried it before. Is Dash fast enough to watch full screen dvd? Which software do you guys use to compress dvd?

http://www.magicdvdripper.com/
DVD to .mp4

I use SUPER http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html it does not Rip from DVD, but once ripped its the best converter around and its FREE. A full length movie of 2 hours converts to a file of about 200MB @ 320x240 and flawless playback.

Thanks both. I used DVD Encypter before to rip DVD. It will be awesome to watch on Dash on a long trip.

I also use DVD Fab Platinum (w/mobile option) it's one of the better ones. It's not free but there is a trial version ( i think) to see how well it performs 4 you. http://www.dvdfab.com/

I also tried Spb Mobile DVD. It compressed DVD to 320*208 25fps xVid, which played flawlessly by CorePlayer. It's not a freeware, but seems easier to use.

Bupahs said:
I use SUPER http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html it does not Rip from DVD, but once ripped its the best converter around and its FREE. A full length movie of 2 hours converts to a file of about 200MB @ 320x240 and flawless playback.
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Bupah what settings do you use in Super when encoding to get such a small file size with flawless playback?

Videora
I use Videora. It is for Ipods, but it does a QVGA resolution .MP4 that you can play in TCMP. You have to rip the DVD to your hard disc a special way using DVD Decrypter. There is a very easy to follow guide that links from inside the program for the method top do this. Oh, its free also.

Convert to Divx mobile with PocketDivxEncoder, and play the files with CorePlayer

DVD Wizard
Guy get the best of the best, DVD Wizard, nobody beats the wizard.....!

best video convertor

im about to buy core player and a new 8 gig micro card
i want to convert some of my SD and HD movies to use while on holiday
movies are in TS. or vob format at the mo
which is the best way to convert them to play using core player
thanks for any advice
i have tried encoder but the audio is always out of synce
thanks for any help

Try DVDFab

dvdfab is for copying my dvds what i want to do is convert film files i have on my pc into smaller files such as divx or mpeg 4 to play via core player
is there a universal tool to do this
edit found the mobile convertor in it but very limited no options to change res or audio and doesnt seem to work i click next and nothing as though it doesnt see the file types

i was playing with mediacoder last night, seemed to do the job for me. lots of settings as with any codec conversion process and u'll need to experiment to find the best codec/bitrate/resolution combination for you and ur media.
http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

just got core player
with WMP it plays my mpeg 4 conversion of monster inc no probs
with core player its very stuttery
file details are
Mpeg4
video avc aka h264
codec coreavc
video size
800 x 448
frame rate 25.00
i suppose what im looking for is to be able to convert the file to a format and res that core play will play smoothly
thanks for any advice

Ghostifish said:
i was playing with mediacoder last night, seemed to do the job for me. lots of settings as with any codec conversion process and u'll need to experiment to find the best codec/bitrate/resolution combination for you and ur media.
http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
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cant get this to run
keep getting msvcr71.dll was not found
download the eg fixer to cure it and says it cant be run on a 64 bit system
any help would be great
thanks

Didn't have a problem with it myself with vista x64.
I already had the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime library installed and just used the 32bit version of mediacoder and didn't bother with the 64bit addons. Not having experianced the problem you have, I'm not really in a position to offer much more help than that. Sorry
If you keep having trouble with mediacoder, you could try SUPER. I used to use it, but found its UI a bit of a mess.
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

I use Visualhub on OSX. It will specifically do H.264 MP4 videos made for iPhone and iPod Touch but you can also specifically set the resolution and the bitrate so you can specifically set for the TP2 screen. I get faster and higher quality video at the iPhone resolution especially since high bitrates choke on the TP2. Couple that with Coreplayer and it's a done deal.

combat goofwing said:
dvdfab is for copying my dvds what i want to do is convert film files i have on my pc into smaller files such as divx or mpeg 4 to play via core player
is there a universal tool to do this
edit found the mobile convertor in it but very limited no options to change res or audio and doesnt seem to work i click next and nothing as though it doesnt see the file types
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Have you picked your source at the top of the screen?
but DVDFab is a shareware so here's a freeware for you
http://www.winnydows.com/page.php?2
more tools through google

With core player go menu/tools/preferences/select page/video
And put video out onto qtv display. Put video quality on high. Smooth zoom on.
Then try your mp4.
I find it best to convert videos to 320 x 194 or 320 x 176
The best video quality I have downloaded. (Trailers) .m4v but I can’t find any program that converts to that format

I've used Total Video Converter which has plenty of options and seems to work fine for me.
Total Video Converter

whtrbt7 said:
I use Visualhub on OSX.
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Visual hub (http://www.techspansion.com/) has been discontinued (sadly enough), but I use it as well. If you can get a copy somewhere, its really useful and piss easy to use. As an alternative i can also recommend Handbrake (http://handbrake.fr/). Its not as easy to use as Visual Hub, but it also produces great results which work very well with Core Player.

A good .avi to .mp4 converter?

I'm looking for a good converter which converts .avi to .mp4. I was using this one for my Touch Diamond 2 but I think the bitrate and stuff could be higher now when I got a Desire with better specs.
I used this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467112

I use Format Factory, it does a pretty good job and is free.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

Look at Xilisoft software. Not free but good for pretty much any video/audio convrrsion.
Sent from my Desire using XDA App

I have compared different converters and I recommend Convert-tune to download and convert video and audio easily.
It converts music and movies, and also burn files on CDs. The converter is
easy to install and use.

when using Xilisoft program i had many audio/video , synchronization problems ...

ArtieQ said:
I'm looking for a good converter which converts .avi to .mp4. I was using this one for my Touch Diamond 2 but I think the bitrate and stuff could be higher now when I got a Desire with better specs.
I used this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467112
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Stick with that converter. It's awesome and there is no point in increasing the bitrate because the screen resolution and dimensions are the same. Increasing the bitrate will not show higher quality pictures.

AVS Video converter 6 is hands down the best converter i have used. Its not free, but its a good investment because it pretty much converts anything you throw at it. Even .mkv.

I use Handbrake on the Mac, think there is a PC version as well, works great.

+1 for Handbrake
You can pretty much just use the iPhone preset. You might need a laptop with some horsepower but it's worth using the h264 codec to reduce file size
http://handbrake.fr/
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You could just use RockPlayerBase to play the AVI instead of waiting for it to encode?

Tried using handbrake but neither Rock or the native player will recognise the m4v or mp4 file - any suggestions?

DroidBois said:
Tried using handbrake but neither Rock or the native player will recognise the m4v or mp4 file - any suggestions?
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Why would you wanna use RockPlayer to watch .mp4? Just don't encode the videos.. leave them .avi or whatever, RockPlayer will play it. If you have .mp4 from beginning just use the inbuilt player.

Because I'm trying to save space and cram as many in to the memory card as I can - it's for a 6 week holiday so I want to take as much as I can. 700MB / file is un-necessarily large for a phone?

Well, I got a 32GB SD card right now and that's alooooot of movies.. I don't know what you got but converting to mp4 isn't saving so much space.

I thought a 700MB filecould be halved quite easily without any noticeable loss in quality, perhaps not? I want to take about 30 files with us, so a 16GB card or two won't be enough. We'd need 20 - 25GB of micro SD storage! With that much to carry around for an extended holiday, any saving of space would be substantial. The native player does seem to play the .avi files the files are currently stored in, however it seems a waste to keep them in their current size for such a small screen?

DroidBois said:
I thought a 700MB filecould be halved quite easily without any noticeable loss in quality, perhaps not?
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Impossible unless of course the "video" happens to be a plain black image

sunny_mm said:
If you want to convert AVI files to MP4, you can go to try Kigo video converter free for Mac.
Kigo Video Converter for Mac supports converting all popular video formats including flv, MPEG1, MPEG2, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, MOV, AVI, M2TS, MPEG TS/TP (for HD Video), M4V, etc with perfect output quality and high conversion speed for Mac OS X users. You can also extract audio from videos.
The free video converter offers various powerful functions to edit your video files, such as trimming movies into segments, merging files to single file, cropping video size, setting video effects, and even adding watermark onto your movies.
If you are interested in this video converter, please visit
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I know you want to get 10 posts, but try posting in newer threads, instead of resurrecting 3 year old ones.

Get mx player and play a avi movie and it starts laggings so I change the codec at top right corner to sw and the video was playing perfectly no lag.
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda app-developers app

PowerDVD Mobile

PowerDVD Mobile for Surface RT has been released
http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/e1dd130e-d240-4c57-947c-0809b0b93acf
I have been waiting for VLC for a long time because none of the multimedia player released for RT have satisfied me at all. Some do not play MKV and so far none of them have been able to play from my IOmega Multimedia Server.
PowerDVD did the trick.
Unfortunately is not perfect, it does not handle well subtitles and it's a big expensive but other than that I would recommend everybody to check the trial version.

thanks for the info,
can you tell me if the RT version of powerdvdmobile reads 3gp format ? (in my case, videos from my old smartphone)
rgds,
ph.

philippe75017 said:
thanks for the info,
can you tell me if the RT version of powerdvdmobile reads 3gp format ? (in my case, videos from my old smartphone)
rgds,
ph.
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-Ignore Me- Thought i was in windows 8 section not RT section. Won't let me delete my post now.

ctitanic said:
PowerDVD Mobile for Surface RT has been released
http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/e1dd130e-d240-4c57-947c-0809b0b93acf
I have been waiting for VLC for a long time because none of the multimedia player released for RT have satisfied me at all. Some do not play MKV and so far none of them have been able to play from my IOmega Multimedia Server.
PowerDVD did the trick.
Unfortunately is not perfect, it does not handle well subtitles and it's a big expensive but other than that I would recommend everybody to check the trial version.
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the app I use and works great with MKV files is MOBILE HD and isn't too expensive, even works great when streaming it off my homegroup! very happy with it! I suggest getting it.

external DVD player
hello,
can someone tell me if Powerdvd mobile for windows RT can read a DVD optical disc, using an USB external DVD player connected to RT computer (surface RT, surface 2...),
also specify the brand and model of your DVD player :angel:
many thanks.

philippe75017 said:
hello,
can someone tell me if Powerdvd mobile for windows RT can read a DVD optical disc, using an USB external DVD player connected to RT computer (surface RT, surface 2...),
also specify the brand and model of your DVD player :angel:
many thanks.
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Windows RT treats all optical media as a data disk. It cannot recognise audio or video disks, it just treats them as data instead, no media player I have tried seems capable of playing back DVD's when treated as data. Use VLC media player (or something else) to rip the DVD to another format on a full PC instead, it should be able to play those files.

SixSixSevenSeven said:
Windows RT treats all optical media as a data disk. It cannot recognise audio or video disks, it just treats them as data instead, no media player I have tried seems capable of playing back DVD's when treated as data. Use VLC media player (or something else) to rip the DVD to another format on a full PC instead, it should be able to play those files.
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hello,
contrary to an audio CD, a DVD is a data disk.
it would be interesting to check if Powerdvd for RT can read VOB files copied to surface's internal disk or SD card (using an unprotected DVD, at first), meaning, not depending of the DVD disk structure.

SixSixSevenSeven said:
Windows RT treats all optical media as a data disk. It cannot recognise audio or video disks, it just treats them as data instead, no media player I have tried seems capable of playing back DVD's when treated as data. Use VLC media player (or something else) to rip the DVD to another format on a full PC instead, it should be able to play those files.
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Sorry to butt in here. I've seen references to ripping DVDs with VLC in other places but have never found any directions. Can you point me in the right direction.
Thanks for everyone's patience. I realize this is off topic.

philippe75017 said:
hello,
contrary to an audio CD, a DVD is a data disk.
it would be interesting to check if Powerdvd for RT can read VOB files copied to surface's internal disk or SD card (using an unprotected DVD, at first), meaning, not depending of the DVD disk structure.
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Yes, it can if it's unprotected.

ctitanic said:
Yes, it can if it's unprotected.
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thank you ctitanic,
do you use powerDVD with RT ? are you happy with it ?
well, if you can plug a DVD drive and try to read it, your feedback is welcome
thx.

philippe75017 said:
thank you ctitanic,
do you use powerDVD with RT ? are you happy with it ?
well, if you can plug a DVD drive and try to read it, your feedback is welcome
thx.
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I'm happy with PowerDVD and I tested yesterday playing an unprotected DVD copied to my network. I don't have an USB external DVD to test it with but I think it can,

ctitanic said:
I'm happy with PowerDVD and I tested yesterday playing an unprotected DVD copied to my network. I don't have an USB external DVD to test it with but I think it can,
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thx,
1) DVD copied to network : did u just copy the VOB file or all the files & directories ?
2) USB drive : borrow a friend's one and tell us

philippe75017 said:
thx,
1) DVD copied to network : did u just copy the VOB file or all the files & directories ?
2) USB drive : borrow a friend's one and tell us
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1- Yes, I copy my DVDs to a NAS using a software called DVDFab
2- confirmed, it does not play commercial DVDs but it will play the unprotected copies.

ctitanic said:
1- Yes, I copy my DVDs to a NAS using a software called DVDFab
2- confirmed, it does not play commercial DVDs but it will play the unprotected copies.
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hello,
sorry, i'm a bit lost. if you use DVDFab, it is not a "copy", it is "ripping", is this correct ?
what do you mean by "unprotected copies" :
- DVD ripped and converted to mp4 file (or avi or whatever), you play the mp4 from your NAS
- DVD ripped without conversion : you play the VOB, IFO etc from your NAS
- DVD not ripped : just cut & paste the VOB you need to NAS
please specify how it does not play commercial DVD : ok, what happens exactly when you enter the DVD in the drive plugged to the surface ?
also, not all commercial DVDs are protected : old dvd's, cheap dvds like old cartoons for kids etc, have you tried with a drive ?
thank you

philippe75017 said:
thx,
1) DVD copied to network : did u just copy the VOB file or all the files & directories ?
2) USB drive : borrow a friend's one and tell us
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philippe75017 said:
hello,
sorry, i'm a bit lost. if you use DVDFab, it is not a "copy", it is "ripping", is this correct ?
what do you mean by "unprotected copies" :
- DVD ripped and converted to mp4 file (or avi or whatever), you play the mp4 from your NAS
- DVD ripped without conversion : you play the VOB, IFO etc from your NAS
- DVD not ripped : just cut & paste the VOB you need to NAS
please specify how it does not play commercial DVD : ok, what happens exactly when you enter the DVD in the drive plugged to the surface ?
also, not all commercial DVDs are protected : old dvd's, cheap dvds like old cartoons for kids etc, have you tried with a drive ?
thank you
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Ripped DVD means unprotected. It doesn't matter if you convert or not. A Ripped DVD without converting it, just copied to my NAS plays.
A Commercial DVD in an external USB DVD player doesn't play. It doesn't matter if you copy the vob files to a NAS because they were not ripped so the copy protection still there.