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movies on evo

Can anyone recommend a good dvd ripping app so that I can rip movies and convert them to watch on my evo... i can convert them using doubletwist, but I need something to rip them... don't know of a reliable freeware app

you'd think someone that's posted almost 500 times would know about the search tool...
or maybe, that's why you've posted so often.
try handbrake. works like a charm. google it, or look around here. plenty of threads about it already

the best app i've discovered for PC is DVDDecrypter. it works perfectly. allows you to select by chapters, or the whole DVD. good stuff!

DVD Fab Platinum

you'd think someone that's posted almost 500 times would know about the search tool...
or maybe, that's why you've posted so often.
try handbrake. works like a charm. google it, or look around here. plenty of threads about it already
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LOL, I help where I can, but I just didn't want to download a virus from a random site. Thanks for the response.
I asked about this before and just didn't see anything really mention dvd ripping
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http://www.knowyourcell.com/htc/htc-evo-4g/evo-4g-guides/487469/how_to_convert_videos_and_transfer_them_to_the_htc_evo_4g.html

i just dropped sherlock holmes 720p mpeg4 and it plays incredibly well

Avalaunchmods said:
i just dropped sherlock holmes 720p mpeg4 and it plays incredibly well
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just wondering how heavy is the movie file after converting to 720p?

GHOST99K said:
just wondering how heavy is the movie file after converting to 720p?
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4.36 gigs. that is from bd rip from my own bd disc. i use adobe cs4 converter to convert. dropped it on there and although it is a huge file, i am utterly impressed at the quality. stays constant audio and video sync and never drops framerate. blacks are amazing not inky at all and colors are very very vibrant.
but anyways if you are just going to view one movie every once in awhile like i do i recommend dropping 720p onto it. its easy and amazing

just wondering how heavy is the movie file after converting to 720p?
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4.36 gigs. that is from bd rip from my own bd disc. i use adobe cs4 converter to convert. dropped it on there and although it is a huge file, i am utterly impressed at the quality. stays constant audio and video sync and never drops framerate. blacks are amazing not inky at all and colors are very very vibrant.
but anyways if you are just going to view one movie every once in awhile like i do i recommend dropping 720p onto it. its easy and amazing
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you can keep the quality and reduce the file size by a large amount by using handbrake. No need to have a 4gb file.
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Follow these instructions for good quality video with handbrake:
http://www.frankie.bz/blog/tips-and-tricks/convert-video-nexus-one/

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Follow these instructions for good quality video with handbrake:
http://www.frankie.bz/blog/tips-and-tricks/convert-video-nexus-one/
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wow thanks i jus downloaded handbrake and im gonna apply those changes and c how it looks as soon as i get the EVO.

looneylu said:
Can anyone recommend a good dvd ripping app so that I can rip movies and convert them to watch on my evo... i can convert them using doubletwist, but I need something to rip them... don't know of a reliable freeware app
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doubletwist

Doubletwist
Doubletwist is nice, for music and apps. But it rips movies 640 x 320 too small for the screen. There are no preferences I can find the change that. I am on a MAC and I have had great success converting my .AVI files with FFMPEG and the Mp4 presets. THe movies are about 800 megs and look great.

if anyone knows of a good app for converting mkv to mp4 id be interested i ripped all of Battlestar Galactica straight from Bluray disc source its in AVCHD format but i have mkv copies of whole series i could use if i could find easy way to transcode it losslessly or play it in mkv on android looking for a like VLC type video player for android

this is gonna sound weird, but AirVideo server for iPad(it streams videos to the iPad) it's the only app i've tried so far that will convert MKV with little to no quality loss. best part, it's free. just a suggestion.
http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/download.html

spyngamerman said:
if anyone knows of a good app for converting mkv to mp4 id be interested i ripped all of Battlestar Galactica straight from Bluray disc source its in AVCHD format but i have mkv copies of whole series i could use if i could find easy way to transcode it losslessly or play it in mkv on android looking for a like VLC type video player for android
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Try using mkv2vob

Avalaunchmods said:
4.36 gigs. that is from bd rip from my own bd disc. i use adobe cs4 converter to convert. dropped it on there and although it is a huge file, i am utterly impressed at the quality. stays constant audio and video sync and never drops framerate. blacks are amazing not inky at all and colors are very very vibrant.
but anyways if you are just going to view one movie every once in awhile like i do i recommend dropping 720p onto it. its easy and amazing
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Just a quick note... Unless you are playing the movie through hdmi on a 720p display, why would you be encoding 720p movies for a phone with a 800x480 display? 4.3gb sounds like a lot of wasted space for all those extra unused pixels.
For everyone else, handbrake is the free simple alternative. And for people that care to learn a few command line options, ffmpeg is fantastic. I get much smaller better looking files from the open source x264 compiled ffmpeg. But, configured correctly, handbrake can be a front end for ffmpeg anyway.

Download Daniusoft DVD Ripper.
It searches for your phone, connects, converts the movie and places it on your sd card in the correct folder. All by itself.

flexgrip said:
Just a quick note... Unless you are playing the movie through hdmi on a 720p display, why would you be encoding 720p movies for a phone with a 800x480 display?
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Also consider the wall I hit when I first tried ripping--I ripped the DVD at 800x480 with all the correct settings, but when I tried to throw it up on my HDTV via the HDMI output, my TV would not recognize the non-standard size.
So you have a choice: 1) rip to 720p if you are going to output via HDMI or 2) rip to 800x480 if you are ONLY going to view the movie on the phone.

New to Android - Why can't I play MPG videos?

So I love the EVO, and so far I love Android, except I can't seem to figure out how to play videos on it. Sure I can view Youtube, youporn etc , but I can't seem to find a player that will play simple MPEGs. I have downloaded and tried at least 5 different video/media players from the Market, and none of them will play MPEGs correctly. Some of them will give me sound, but none will give me video. I have tried a couple of different video files that I know work on my desktop.
Am I doing something wrong? I am coming from Windows Mobile with Windows Media Player that played just about anything I threw at it. I can't imagine such a wonderful piece of hardware coupled with what seems to be an awesome OS can't do MPG/AVI.
Note: I am currently rooted+nand+bugless beast 0.3 Although I was having this trouble before I had the custom rom or NAND unlocked.

sterlinron said:
So I love the EVO, and so far I love Android, except I can't seem to figure out how to play videos on it. Sure I can view Youtube, youporn etc , but I can't seem to find a player that will play simple MPEGs. I have downloaded and tried at least 5 different video/media players from the Market, and none of them will play MPEGs correctly. Some of them will give me sound, but none will give me video. I have tried a couple of different video files that I know work on my desktop.
Am I doing something wrong? I am coming from Windows Mobile with Windows Media Player that played just about anything I threw at it. I can't imagine such a wonderful piece of hardware coupled with what seems to be an awesome OS can't do MPG/AVI.
Note: I am currently rooted+nand+bugless beast 0.3 Although I was having this trouble before I had the custom rom or NAND unlocked.
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Curious, have you tried Meridian? I don't really play a lot of videos on my phone, but Meridian has come through on everything so far for me. YMMV

Rock player is the best video player I have ever used on Android. I can play all my divx format movies without conversion and always get 25-30 fps.
The player is in private beta now and should be released soon.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=698451

KCarpenter - yes, I downloaded Meridian last night. Just tried it again, and still no luck. Thanks for the reply.
Danknee - Thanks!

Considering that the Evo has hardware-accelerated H.264 decoding, why bother playing other formats that will destroy your CPU and battery?
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gbm85 said:
Considering that the Evo has hardware-accelerated H.264 decoding, why bother playing other formats that will destroy your CPU and battery?
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It's just that I received an e-mail MPG of my nephew riding his bike without training wheels and would like to see it that's all. Not sure what H.264 decoding is or if it has my nephew riding his bike without training wheels or not. I should go search for that thanks.
I just figure I should be able to view most any file attachment that comes into me these days.

H.264 is the video encoder for MP4's. Basically, if you used a program to convert your videos to MP4 videos, you would be able to play them without a problem. The phone has hardware acceleration for H.264, so it doesn't use as much processor/battery to play vs. other formats that have to be software decoded. Handbrake works good for me, though I can't remember what file types you can put into it.

sterlinron said:
It's just that I received an e-mail MPG of my nephew riding his bike without training wheels and would like to see it that's all. Not sure what H.264 decoding is or if it has my nephew riding his bike without training wheels or not. I should go search for that thanks.
I just figure I should be able to view most any file attachment that comes into me these days.
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The reason why you cannot play those mpg files is simple. Android doesn't support them out of the box. You need to turn to third-party video players which can do it.
Rock Demo Player is one (only one?) such video player.

You can try to use the third-party video player, I read an article is about the top 5 video player apps in Android Market. Maybe it is helpful to you.

Brucew0617 said:
You can try to use the third-party video player, I read an article is about the top 5 video player apps in Android Market. Maybe it is helpful to you.
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This thread is over a year old. I think the OP figured it out.

Thanks for your remind, I hope it can also be useful to other guys.

I use MX Player. I've only had a problem with AVI files that encode the audio with AAC.
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Mobo player so far for me has played anything I asked it to.
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MakeMeFibonacci said:
I use MX Player. I've only had a problem with AVI files that encode the audio with AAC.
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I used Moboplayer most of time, it seems that MX Player also have so much supporter. Maybe I should try it later.

Playing Digital copy movies on the HTC EVO

Anyway to load and play digital copies onto our android phones? I have the htc evo 4g.

Yea....copy the movie(s) on to the sdcard and then use rockplayer to play them. Keep in mind not all file types will play, most will. Also HD movies might stutter.

You can try RockPlayer, VPlayer, and mVideoPlayer to play the movies once their own your SD. mVideoPlayer has a lot of polish to it.

Copy them to your SD card as m4v or mp4, not as wmv. Should play okay.

Thanks guys, well try when i get home.
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Jim M said:
Copy them to your SD card as m4v or mp4, not as wmv. Should play okay.
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Why not WMV???
Is there any codex downloads to add ??
I downloaded this DIVX demo thing and it plays WMV fine.. I tried some of the programs mentioned in this thread and none play them.

fastfed said:
Why not WMV???
Is there any codex downloads to add ??
I downloaded this DIVX demo thing and it plays WMV fine.. I tried some of the programs mentioned in this thread and none play them.
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I dont know.... I'm going to try all of this out with different formats when I have the time!!!

fastfed said:
Why not WMV???
Is there any codex downloads to add ??
I downloaded this DIVX demo thing and it plays WMV fine.. I tried some of the programs mentioned in this thread and none play them.
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Because the EVO won't play wmv without adding a program to do so. You added a program that does, which is fine, but that was not the question the OP asked.

Jim M said:
Because the EVO won't play wmv without adding a program to do so. You added a program that does, which is fine, but that was not the question the OP asked.
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Umm b ut it wont play .AVI or many other formats either.. But you (and others) always specifically mention "Not WMV files"
why? they play just as fine as any other format and as it seems everything but what you actually record needs a program..
Basically, why are people always saying not to do WMV but everything else is fine?

fastfed said:
Umm b ut it wont play .AVI or many other formats either.. But you (and others) always specifically mention "Not WMV files"
why? they play just as fine as any other format and as it seems everything but what you actually record needs a program..
Basically, why are people always saying not to do WMV but everything else is fine?
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Because the codecs natively used in the wmv containers are not supported natively in the evo.
To the op, none of the market players will play digital copies no matter what they say. I have about six movies on my evo and all were digital copies. I had to screen capture them because android in general will not currently play drm content and dc's have drm. Understand that the market players can only play content with no type of protection on them such as drm. At this time, there is no way to watch pure digital copies.

Depending on what studio the DVD with the digital copy came from, the files themselves are either going to be protected mp4's or protected wmv's. Neither of which will play on an Android device. If the file is an mp4, it *might* play if you strip the protection off, but I have no clue as to how easy or possible that is. A wmv won't play whether it is protected or not as far as I know.

Jim M said:
Copy them to your SD card as m4v or mp4, not as wmv. Should play okay.
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when asked to copy digital copy to windows or itunes, do i choose itunes and then transfer?

imex99 said:
when asked to copy digital copy to windows or itunes, do i choose itunes and then transfer?
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Copy over as iTunes
As mentioned earlier, if it has playback protection like Disney puts on their digital copy, it won't play.
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Check http://www.doom9.org/ for help in ripping your DVD's. Much easier than dealing with DRM'd studio copies.

Just google search Step by Step Guide on How to Play AVI on HTC Desire/Evo/Hero?
you will find a simple guide on how to play avi on htc, it also helps to play other video like flv, mkv, mp4, wmv, 3gp, and more on htc

Thanks not the OP but I still found this thread useful and informative
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How do you watch videos?

How do you watch videos on your EVO? Do you convert them and then drop the file on you sdcard? Stream from Dropbox or something else?

I usually convert them to one of the supported file types.

I just throw the video file on my sd card then use RockPlayer. I use to convert all my video files but RockPlayer can play just about all types of video files. There is a lite version on the marketplace. I dont think it can play .mkv files tho. Hope this helps.

titans10 said:
I just throw the video file on my sd card then use RockPlayer. I use to convert all my video files but RockPlayer can play just about all types of video files. There is a lite version on the marketplace. I dont think it can play .mkv files tho. Hope this helps.
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I second this...
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titans10 said:
I just throw the video file on my sd card then use RockPlayer. I use to convert all my video files but RockPlayer can play just about all types of video files. There is a lite version on the marketplace. I dont think it can play .mkv files tho. Hope this helps.
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I third this. It actually plays .mkv files just fine, or at least I haven't had any trouble with them yet. I recall you have to set it to software decoding rather than hardware, but I'm not sure if this is related to playing .mkv's or if it's for all filetypes.

phsteve said:
I third this. It actually plays .mkv files just fine, or at least I haven't had any trouble with them yet. I recall you have to set it to software decoding rather than hardware, but I'm not sure if this is related to playing .mkv's or if it's for all filetypes.
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I tried a 720p .mkv file a few months back and the video played back extremely slow and choppy. I always use software decoding. I will try another .mkv tonight and report back

4thed for rockplayer.

titans10 said:
I tried a 720p .mkv file a few months back and the video played back extremely slow and choppy. I always use software decoding. I will try another .mkv tonight and report back
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You're probably right about 720p, I just checked and the videos I was watching are 624x352, which still look smooth and clear on the EVO.

https://market.android.com/details?id=me.abitno.vplayer.t

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You're probably right about 720p, I just checked and the videos I was watching are 624x352, which still look smooth and clear on the EVO.
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He all... just thought I'd follow up. Tried a 720 .mkv file... just as I suspected. Slow and choppy. I will have to convert that file type to a mp4. so... uh... thanks!

Mkv and mp4 are just containers. As long as the codec used is h264, the video should play just fine. I have many 720p videos on my phone that play just fine. Just make sure to keep the bitrate under 3000kbps or so.
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Any good apps for playing windows media files?

I cant seem to find one that works from the market and didnt see much in my search in this section. I used to use Arc Media player but that doesnt seem to work anymore. Most of them will play the file but there is no picture, just audio. Other files such as AVI seem to play fine with most of the players I have tried.

ryan2202 said:
I cant seem to find one that works from the market and didnt see much in my search in this section. I used to use Arc Media player but that doesnt seem to work anymore. Most of them will play the file but there is no picture, just audio. Other files such as AVI seem to play fine with most of the players I have tried.
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I use doubletwist player and it plays wma files no problem if its just video your looking for i havent tried it ill try tonight and let you know

ryan2202 said:
I cant seem to find one that works from the market and didnt see much in my search in this section. I used to use Arc Media player but that doesnt seem to work anymore. Most of them will play the file but there is no picture, just audio. Other files such as AVI seem to play fine with most of the players I have tried.
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Use moboplayer. It supports all video codecs.
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You can try moai video player. Its free of the market and plays almost everything. Also FVD video downloader will download videos to your sd card and has a built in video player.

Thanks for the replies I will give them a try

Crap, none of these worked so far.

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Use moboplayer. It supports all video codecs.
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Crap, none of these worked so far.
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I've generally had great luck playing any video format with mobo, including wmv.

I like MX Player. It has hardware decoding capabilities. If that doesn't work it supports multi core software decoding.

Rock Player plays just about anything

There's also a VLC player in alpha mode I think that may play it. Ill post it when I can.
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Winamp and power amp are what I use. Pro versions aren't free though. The Google play version works as well. Not sure if it plays local wma files, but it definitely play wma files from its server.
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Snappz market it will open a world of wonders
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