Just done an initial test of video playback on the Desire. Used an MP4 which was encoded at 640x480 fro my iPhone, and I know the file is good. This plays back jerkily, and is not wide enough on screen.
I have tried yxflash and playback is poor.
Can the Desire play back this format smoothly, and can it adjust the aspect ratio in the player?
What are the recommended file types/sizes/encoding for the Desire?
well i think the reason it's not wide streched is because the width of the video is 480px and the width of desire too so it cannot expand to the whole wide height since the video's height is 640 and desire's is 800!! my opinionas i see it
800x480. Perhaps use the HD Encoder tool found on the Blackstone forumns here. Encodes videos perfectly for this resoultion.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467112
Tell us how it goes. Remember to use this from the source video, and not your already converted videos which are lower res and not widescreen
Thanks. I'll give that a go.
have you tried this yet? Any luck?
There is also DoubleTwist, which acts as an iTunes replacement. I tried this, but it is extremely slow at encoding video, although it does work, and the quality is OK.
OnlinePredator said:
800x480. Perhaps use the HD Encoder tool found on the Blackstone forumns here. Encodes videos perfectly for this resoultion.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467112
Tell us how it goes. Remember to use this from the source video, and not your already converted videos which are lower res and not widescreen
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Fantastic program. Have converted avi's and even 720p mkv files.
Results are excellent on the Desire's screen.
Highly recommended
DF
It's a bit of a shame that video playback is pretty poor, Hero was the same. Don't know why HTC choose to do this everytime, make a fantastic device and spoil it by sticking in a inferior software.
Datafanatic said:
Fantastic program. Have converted avi's and even 720p mkv files.
Results are excellent on the Desire's screen.
Highly recommended
DF
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Hi there,
I was just wondering if you use any specific settings in the program for the Desire, or do you just use the default settings? Thanks in advance!
J
jpxdude said:
Hi there,
I was just wondering if you use any specific settings in the program for the Desire, or do you just use the default settings? Thanks in advance!
J
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I would use defaults. By default it's set to the correct resolution. Depends if you are converting a SD or HD, then choose from the two checkboxes to the left of the resolution. That's it. Just add the files you want to convert, choose a destination folder and go for it.
Let us know how it goes.
OnlinePredator said:
I would use defaults. By default it's set to the correct resolution. Depends if you are converting a SD or HD, then choose from the two checkboxes to the left of the resolution. That's it. Just add the files you want to convert, choose a destination folder and go for it.
Let us know how it goes.
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Thanks for your reply! I'm trying to download the program from the thread, but the link seems to be broken??? I was wondering if you might have an alternative link to it please? TIA
** Edit - Forget that, I managed to download the program, and i'm testing with a HD Rip at 750 kb/s now! Will let you all know the results soon.
jpxdude said:
Thanks for your reply! I'm trying to download the program from the thread, but the link seems to be broken??? I was wondering if you might have an alternative link to it please? TIA
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Link isn't broken. Although I will upload to rapid share for you in a a few mins as it's taking forever.
http://gm.mainframe.no/stuff/Encoder.rar Try that again as it works right now for me.
Thanks for that! All is good and working right now, hopefully the quality will work out! For those that haven't checked it out already, I recommend beebplayer! Works just like BBC iPlayer but also includes live TV broadcasting
http://rapidshare.com/files/369471881/Encoder.rar.html
MD5: 10AFB7AE5A281860525C9554CD82DAF5
can't wait until they finally port Coreplayer to Android...
I've not been able to test further yet - I on the road just now. Will be checking this out later today.
XDAgeek said:
I've not been able to test further yet - I on the road just now. Will be checking this out later today.
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And just for clarification, XDAgeek was using using my account to start this thread, I'd got my Desire but his didn't turn up on Saturday, so expect replies from him, not me
Aaron
Hi All,
Just to update, I have converted a HD video at 750 kb/s and it plays perfectly on the Desire! The colours are vibrant, and warm, and motion is super fluid! I recommend people give it a go, it's great!
jpxdude said:
Hi All,
Just to update, I have converted a HD video at 750 kb/s and it plays perfectly on the Desire! The colours are vibrant, and warm, and motion is super fluid! I recommend people give it a go, it's great!
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Sweet! Thanks for sharing!
Sorry
sorry for being so dumb but could you tell me where to put the movie file once its converted ( in the phone that is ) as i tried to put it in pic,s but it never showed up on the phone after tranffer
lots of thanks
Hi
Been having a play about today trying to get some of my dvds onto my desire. Thought I'd give handbrake a go but the results are terrible ie not watchable. Basically the picture is filled with green white and purple blocks through the film.
I am using handbrake to rip and convert at once, I assume that's ok? I've used settings that I found on the forum.
Laptop is more than spec'd up enough to be able to convert with no issues.
It's not an issue with the desire as the pic is the same if I play it on my laptop.
Anyone got any idea what the issue could be and how to fix?
Thanks
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Sent from my HTC Desire
You are aware that Handbrake does not remove the encryption from ripped DVDs?
From the FAQ:
First off, you should know that HandBrake is not a DVD ripper. There are many of those out there. For Mac, the best option is Fairmount paired with DVD2OneX. For Windows, it's AnyDVD. HandBrake's about video conversion, not stripping copy protection. For best results, you should feed HandBrake unprotected video.
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Regards,
Dave
Hello all, kind of new here, I just wanted to know what is a good program for converting video files to mp4 and what are the specs that I need to take advantage of this nice screen without stretching? Thank you in advance
Hello all
I've seached and searched but cannot find a solution...
I have recorded many movieclips with my digitalcamera of my family on vacations and so on which I would like to watch on my Desire. The format is MP4.
My problem is that there are many videoplayers on the market that plays mp4 but they all play the videos in a wrong resolution. As if the program zooms in and only shows a small part of the movie...?
Only Rockplayer is able to show the correct format but since I'm not rooted I would very much like a smaller aplication...
The strange thing though is that the build in player used to play in the correct resolution/format but now also zooms in... Is there a way to change this back?
I hope you will help me!
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