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dvd rip size

hey guys. ive been reading on here for a few days and decided to make my account cuz it looks like its the best excalibur forum ive found so far
im a mac user and i use a program called handbrake to tip my dvds to put on the s621. my question is what size am i supposed to put the movie to fit the screen right? i want decent quality is imortant but memory saving is also important since this thing doesnt take more then 2gb from my knowlidge

pierrohhh said:
im a mac user and i use a program called handbrake to tip my dvds to put on the s621. my question is what size am i supposed to put the movie to fit the screen right? i want decent quality is imortant but memory saving is also important since this thing doesnt take more then 2gb from my knowlidge
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The maximum resolution of the Excalibur/Dash/s620/s621 is 320x240, however your resolution should be a little less since Handbrake will scale your video in such a way that it maintains the aspect ratio (and doesn't stretch out your image). Set the bitrate to, at most, about 256 KbPS. And for the love of God, don't choose to use h.264. The amount of overclocking required to get the thing to decode h.264 would likely cause your device to 'splode. Use MP3 as the audio codec, don't bother with chapter markers either.
Those settings ought to do just fine for your Dash or other similar device. And if you wanted to be really cool, you'd share the preset for anyone else using Handbrake (Its home may be on the Mac, but there's a Linux version available and a Windows version planned)

what do u mean id share the preset? i just put the dvd in the macbook and then i open handbrake. i would love to help out people by making a thread about it once i have figured it all out. but i still have to test it on my phone . im getting it in 2 weeks when my upgrade is due. i just wanna get all my stuff ready to upload.

ohhh yah and im using mpeg4 and taking out the dolby 5.1 (im guessing stereo would make the file even smaller)

MMS

hi
i dont know if this the right place to ask, but where can i get MMS to send. I just received an MMS with dancing stewie from a friend and i was wondering if theres a site where i can get it sent to my phone?
thanks

Are you looking for sites with animations that you can use for MMSes or are you having trouble setting up your excalibur to send MMSes?

sites with animation

Hmm. Should be relatively easy to find, I guess.
For MMS you can send any of the following formats:
Pics: GIF, JPG, Animated GIF
Video: 3GP, RM (real media)
Audio: AMR, WAV, MID
Video size varies by phone manufacturer with 120x160 being fairly common.
And you can even have other video formats (like youtube videos) converted to 3gp to send, keeping in mind the limit of about 300kB.

you can just google gifs that should pull up some pages. i know ive done it before.
i think tagtag has some (google tagtag). theyve changed a lot so i dont know if they would have what your looking for. but its worth a shot

PLZ HELP! video not saved. 20€ reward

I made a 10min video yesterday about Santaclaus coming to our house..
When I ended the recording the phone started to save the video,, but all of a sudden battery ended. Now I can see with total commander that the video (about 32mb) is in my sd card, but it cant play it.. I trasfered it to my pc and none of my players were able to play it.. I've tried to convert it with mediacoder but no luck .
I pay 20€ to the person who can make this video work !!
plz help.

Why did you record something so important on your phone while it had low battery????

1. I didnt realize it was so low.
2. You are not helping a bit..

Post the file somewhere I can get to it and I will take a look.

http://pejurv.pp.fi/VIDEO0016.mp4
username: xda
pass: xda

petzku said:
http://pejurv.pp.fi/VIDEO0016.mp4
username: xda
pass: xda
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For some reason, the page won't load for me, but I see it's an mp4. Did you try zamzar.com? It's a free (if below 100mb) online converter, and it will send the conversion to your e-mail (download link of the conversion expires in exactly 24hours). Try converting it from an mp4 to a wmv or whatever.

I tried zamzar but conversion failed. I think I need a real video editing wizz to make this work..

Hi,
Tried to get the file to play or convert, but no joy I'm afraid. I've tried:
Opening in MediaPlayer Classic - with the latest K-Lite Mega Codec Pack installed. They report a malformed MP4 file error (the headers seem to be MP4 but the body/rest of file isn't written 100%, so cannot be rendered).
So, I enabled the opening of raw files, which can usually render malformed files - still no luck.
Then I tried converting the file directly in MediaCoder (latest release that I ensure was updated today). It's recognised as an MP4 file, but the internal coding of video and audio (i.e. x.264 video with AAC audio for instance) is not recognised. Seems incomplete and malformed again.
Tried importing the clip into Adobe Premiere and Premiere's filters report a "Generic Import Error", so no luck there.
Finally I tried using "www.youconvertit.com" which reports the file as an unreadable MP4 file.
Having a look at the file in a hex editor, the headers seem "short" and not fully listed as a proper MP4 file. In conclusion without some very detailed messing about with files and a ton of luck , I don't think you're going to have any joy in getting this file to play at all I'm afraid.
Hope this helped a little, narrowed some of the options, anyway. Happy Xmas!
Adam.

Thank you Adam for your great efforts!!
So the video is a unusable. Shame, because this was the first Christmas with my kids that the santa visited us and everything went great. We'll just have to memorize the moment in our minds.
Merry christmas and happy new year to you and your family Adam, thx for caring

A few video sharing Q's

Two questions, are there any apps that will let me send HD captured video via texting, the atari quality video capture to be able to send videos via text is pathetic.
Like wise, any apps to upload the same video to face book?

An eleven second video is 17megs.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App

crcsboy said:
An eleven second video is 17megs.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
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Not trying to sound ignorant, but that doesnt mean anything to me?

It's too big to send
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App

Why is it to big to send. If I am on wifi, I don't see the issue
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App

Think of it this way.
You send an HD capture of a movie and it's say 20MB (short capture) you now have to upload that at wifi or 3g speeds. that takes a little bit to the MMS server, which then has to process it and then send it off to whoever is recieving, who then has to download the 20MB. the whole process could in ideal conditions take about 3 minutes.
in bad conditions 30+ mins NOW consider 100,000 people doing this, and you'll understand why mailservers usully have a 5MB cap on attachments and emails.
it's just not from a tech point feasible to do on mass scale.
if you wanna share video use qik or post it online somewhere so that they can view it and NOT store it on the cell's internal networking where space is not a concern they built it for.

art3mis-nyc said:
Think of it this way.
You send an HD capture of a movie and it's say 20MB (short capture) you now have to upload that at wifi or 3g speeds. that takes a little bit to the MMS server, which then has to process it and then send it off to whoever is recieving, who then has to download the 20MB. the whole process could in ideal conditions take about 3 minutes.
in bad conditions 30+ mins NOW consider 100,000 people doing this, and you'll understand why mailservers usully have a 5MB cap on attachments and emails.
it's just not from a tech point feasible to do on mass scale.
if you wanna share video use qik or post it online somewhere so that they can view it and NOT store it on the cell's internal networking where space is not a concern they built it for.
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Ok I can see why I cant text it, but why not face book? I have the option to upload it to youtube, so why cant I upload it to facebook?

Put.io WP7

For anyone using the file service Put.io, this app lets you stream and locally store MP4 converted videos.
This was my 1st WP7 app, learning the ropes etc - however I will not work on it in its current state (a redesign is required)
However, until the day I get my act together feel free to try this version for free and watch those videos easily
More dev updates will be found at X-Volt.com
P.s this can only run videos on a device that is not connected to the computer!

thx workshop2

I forgot to say, tap and hold items for the context menu (the only working options are stream/open video and download a video - if the file is local then it can also be deleted)

A few bugs?
Great app if I could get it to work. When I sign in an error pops up saying:
Error converting value "2558511245" to type 'System.Int32'.
I press ok and it continues to connect. I go to my files folder but I havent been able to get it to download. I get another error saying theres a problem with mediaplayer....Then it signs back in with your user key and api secret. So I start all over and try to stream the movie. That worked.....almost :/ I had picture, but no audio. I checked the movie from my laptop and the movie does have sound. It just doesnt have sound while streaming to my WP7 HTC. Another thing is there anyway that our user key and api secret can be saved so we dont have to sign in every time we open the program or it crashes? That's also happened a few times. It crashes and I get a black error screen with a lot of writing.
So I have been driving myself crazy trying to get it to work. Do you think you could fix these issues in your next update?
Thanks so much!

Oops, I forgot I had my API key being saved (bit of a security issue there...)
To stream video you can't have the phone connected to the comp, but it runs fine on my phone (Omnia 7) however sometimes put.io conversions arn't always perfect.
If you can give me some more of the error message (converting number to int) so I can fix that for you, but as I said im not planning on doing much with this application as im going to rebuild it once im less busy. You can only download/steam films that have been converted, and to download you hold down on the item to bring up the context menu, then click download.
You can find the settings saving error fixed in the latest attachment at the top of the screen.
Thanks

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Thank you for fixing the save settings. I've been filling my put.io account up with converted .mp4 movies. I bought a subscription to put.io so that I can use the app you developed. However when I open the app on my phone, the movie list shows up, but I'm not ablt to do anything with them. They wont open at all for streaming or downloading and I don't have my phone plugged into the computer when using the app. I cant hardly wait until you have the time to rebuild this app. When all the bugs ahve been worked out I think this app will be amazing. Until then I wait in frustration.........

Well I will say it could be months until I am able to do anything as this was just a research application into WP7 development (I learned many lessons )
For the moment, if you could give me more details about the movies not working - does an error appear? What does it say? Have you double checked Put.io to see if the videos are converted? All this information can help me see if I can fix anything...
I know the Mango update brings more video streaming capabilites in the near future, maybe that will help.
P.s I hope you lying about buying a sub to use this app

Workshop2 said:
Well I will say it could be months until I am able to do anything as this was just a research application into WP7 development (I learned many lessons )
For the moment, if you could give me more details about the movies not working - does an error appear? What does it say? Have you double checked Put.io to see if the videos are converted? All this information can help me see if I can fix anything...
I know the Mango update brings more video streaming capabilites in the near future, maybe that will help.
P.s I hope you lying about buying a sub to use this app
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No, Im not kidding. I paid for a sub to put.io I've been adding .mp4 files to put.io from mobilism.org. The files are in .mp4 format. If I add them from my computer through Zune, they work on my phone, just not through the put.io app. At this time I am not getting any errors popping up because Im not able to do anything at all as I mentioned before.
Out of curiosity, I added an .avi movie to put.io and then from the site, converted it to .mp4. I wasnt able to view it from the app so I reinstalled your previous app and signed in. The .avi movie file showed in my list and I was able to stream it. However it buffered a LOT. I tried to download the file and eventually the app crashed. So I added the latest updated app back to my phone. Which puts me where I am now, still not able to download or stream my .mp4 files. Am I doing something wrong??

No, it sounds like the application isn't working. Dont hold your breath for a quick fix as im extremely busy at the moment. Thanks for the interest though, makes me want to do it even more (btw, what device are you using?)

Workshop2 said:
No, it sounds like the application isn't working. Dont hold your breath for a quick fix as im extremely busy at the moment. Thanks for the interest though, makes me want to do it even more (btw, what device are you using?)
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I have the HTC Surround. Ok, I'll just just check back now and then as I am very interested in using your app

After a lot of trial and error, I figured out how to get the movies to stream to my phone. I have to upload torrent .avi files to put.io and then convert them to .mp4 from the site. Uploaded .mp4 files wont work for some reason. However, I also found an app ~ yomomedia. With yomomedia I can rss my put.io files and stream them to my phone. The stream player lets me rewind or fast forward through the movie and also saves my place if I need to leave the screen. With the put.io wm7 stream player, I can only pause the movie. If I leave the screen I loose the movie all together.
Just thought I'd let you know