I am confused....
which is not exactly hard to do, but what?
If you have the Barcode Scanner installed, you can scan the image under my name referred to as an avatar and it will pop a link on your screen, select open browser and install it it's that simple.
Last edited by rlittle66; December 9th, 2009 at 03:32 AM.
I just copied mpg4 videos from my computer to the SD card. I found them in the Gallery (pictures and videos) They play fine but have no title. I have to start the video to see which movie it is.
I just copied mpg4 videos from my computer to the SD card. I found them in the Gallery (pictures and videos) They play fine but have no title. I have to start the video to see which movie it is.
You might try renaming the file before you xfer it to your Droid that would help.
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attempting a convert of N*w M**n with handbrake. First attempt at a convert.
VERY tired, dont have much time to read all 7 pages of comments here after reading a pile of forum listings already on video playback.
1- i just wanna play AVIs on my phone. My last 3 phones all played avis but i had to get progs for each
2- price isn't an object so even if someone knows a $20 app that plays avis perfectly, pls post it here as it's easier for me to just get an update that someone knows of one and all I have to do is download it and not convert everything
converting Moon now 2 gig avi = 1 hour conversion, gonna have to wait to put it back on phone when i wake up tonight to get ready for work. hoping to watch something other than utube all night once again, or i'm gonna have to take one of my other phones in with me and enjoy it on that
attempting a convert of N*w M**n with handbrake. First attempt at a convert.
VERY tired, dont have much time to read all 7 pages of comments here after reading a pile of forum listings already on video playback.
1- i just wanna play AVIs on my phone. My last 3 phones all played avis but i had to get progs for each
2- price isn't an object so even if someone knows a $20 app that plays avis perfectly, pls post it here as it's easier for me to just get an update that someone knows of one and all I have to do is download it and not convert everything
converting Moon now 2 gig avi = 1 hour conversion, gonna have to wait to put it back on phone when i wake up tonight to get ready for work. hoping to watch something other than utube all night once again, or i'm gonna have to take one of my other phones in with me and enjoy it on that
Sorry to burst your hopes, but I don't think Android has the capability of playing Avi's. I hope devices become so advance that it can play any media format at any size the computer can play without converting. it'd save sooo much time lol
Sorry to burst your hopes, but I don't think Android has the capability of playing Avi's. I hope devices become so advance that it can play any media format at any size the computer can play without converting. it'd save sooo much time lol
However the Droid is fully capable of playing mp4 files and does this very nicely. I have several movies on my phone. if you are finding the SD size a little cramped then you can replace the 16 gig with a 32 gig SD Card. The movies play very smoothly.
Video Player? I think a great app would be a video recorder for the Droid. It already has the Led Light and the 5 megapixel camera.
Think about it, Droid could be the first Video camera Phone.
The Best thing about the Driod is that it's OPEN SOURCE
If anyone finds a good video recorder app let me know k?
There is a video recorder. Click on the camera and look to your right when holding it in landscape mode. There should be a little sidebar with a camera image on bottom and a video camera on top. Slide the little bar up and it will become a video camera....
There ya go....
Ben
P.S. - Try recording a video in negative color effect. Some trippy stuff right there..
There is a video recorder. Click on the camera and look to your right when holding it in landscape mode. There should be a little sidebar with a camera image on bottom and a video camera on top. Slide the little bar up and it will become a video camera....
There ya go....
Ben
P.S. - Try recording a video in negative color effect. Some trippy stuff right there..
Yea, I saw that but I meant with zoom and Light also.
I didn't read the entire thread, just ended up here looking for info on the Droids player/non-player.
If you want to convert your own vids for the phone, try a very trustworthy software called "CuCusoft"
Simply move it to your SD card and play it direct. You will need a 'file manager' program!! Going through the 'gallery' doesn't work.
Roughly 350mb / per hour of vid. High Quality picture and sound.
Thanks for all the other good info here.
Last edited by Bacon369; December 19th, 2009 at 02:31 AM.
I use Aimersoft Media Converter which is able to specify Droid MP4 best with 720×480 resolution, H.264 codec, 1500kbps, AAC 48KHz 160Kbps and 16:9 aspect ratio.
Sorry to burst your hopes, but I don't think Android has the capability of playing Avi's. I hope devices become so advance that it can play any media format at any size the computer can play without converting. it'd save sooo much time lol
Actually, that is not true. The Droid IS capable of playing AVI (Xvid/Divx). YXFlash CAN play AVI's. I tested one myself. Very early in development though.
First time I tried it, I was using an Eris. Video was VERY choppy and out of sync...I decided for the hell of it, I would try again with my Droid...
First attempt was animation.
Xvid - Came out perfect using YXFlash. Did not fill as much of the screen as the converted MP4, but still looked clean.
MP4 - Looked the same as the xvid, but filled more of the screen.
Second attempt (Xvid only, TV Show (video, non-animation))
Very clean, but ever so slightly out of sync (I notice because I look for it, but it would not bother me...Can't be more than a few milliseconds)
To sum up either
1) They have optimized it alot since I used it on my Eris, or
2) The Droids hardware really is that much better
It is kinda pricey for an app though...$19.90. They are currently running a special for 30% off, so I might just break down buy it. It was $29.99 when I downloaded the trial on the Eris...
**EDIT** Just an FYI, the demo version only plays 2 minutes of video.
Last edited by dmodert66; December 21st, 2009 at 03:47 AM.
Videos work, my first attempt, use gallery after conversion
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Originally Posted by JB4times4
You make a folder called music for your music, and so far no one really knows how to get movies working.
Video plays using the gallery. Took me two tries. When I tried the first time to play a video, got a blank screen; plugged the usb cable in; it played; removed the usb cable, it still played. Go figure (although it wasn't full screen.) All that screen resolution, and I can get it to go full screen. Most likely I need another application to play what used to be std avi's. dr
What I did:
I have a bunch (zillion) videos that I used to just play on my Palm 700p; they are all avi(s).
1) I downloaded and installed on my xp desktop, Motorola Media Link.
2) Then dragged my avi to the videos tab on Motorola Media Link and it took overnight to do a "conversion." My original was about 800gb; didn't look to see what the size was on my phone.
3) Next morning, with the usb connected, went to Gallery, it showed 1 video, but wouldn't play, black screen, no audio
4) Disconnected the usb, same
5) reconnected the usb, now it played
6) Disconnected the usb, and it still plays.
Motorola Media Link, from the Motorola web site, free. Lets you drag/drop videos, pictures, music. (Although on my palm, I'd just remove the SD card, put it into my laptop, drag/drop onto the sd card, fast. (Did I say fast.) No conversion, and it played the same video full screen, and gave me options to zoom to a number of levels. Gallery does not.
Editorial, off the topic of video play:
My first non palm in 7 years; forced myself to use the droid because I've come to believe that while I have 100% functionality on my Palm... the palm era is dead...long live the droid.
Droid: Disappointed that I have to add programs to do what on other smartphones just comes with. Not open source, but validated by Palm. Now your thinking that I can always add applications: understood...open source and at my own perl And I'm thinking that I wish I could delete those applications that duplicate other base functionality.
Standard Browser gets me youtube; amazon; market, facebook.
Why then do I have useless apps like youtube, amazon, market, facebook, better served by browser shortcuts/favorites.
Wish list:
- a droid desktop that gives me my contacts, calendars(s), notes on my desktop. If the "cloud" goes down... and it will, it makes no sense to have to get 5 different applications to do what should be vanilla. dr. 12-21-2009
Editorial ends.
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas; may God bless you, your family and your friends this holiday season.
Read through this whole thread, and thought I was good to go. Downloaded handbrake...no problem. Downloaded dvd43...PROBLEM! I am running vista 64 and it says it is not compatible with 64bit. Googled for other decrypters and most seem to cost money and was not sure if they would work either . Anybody know of a good free version that will work with vista64 that works in the background like dvd43?
I would rather do it this way than go to crackberry. Any work around or advice is greatly appreciated.
It took me about 30 minutes to decode it, does that sound about right (2 hour movie)?
It took about 2 hours to rip it after with handbrake, and that seems about right on my computer from what I have read here.
Ran into another problem. I ripped a couple of movies to my computer with no problem, but on one movie handbrake started...then it just stopped. Retried a few times (and rechecked settings) and it did the same thing. I used DVD encrypter first too. I figured that might be out of date or something so I installed another one on my computer (DVDfab) and then used handbrake and the same thing happens...The new window opens and it starts to go, then after about two seconds the new window just goes away. Any thoughts?
I test a lot of software for reviews for NeatNetTricks.com
I'm currently testing Applian's "ReplayCapture Suite". $79
The converter as a stand alone is $29.95 It converts video, audio, rips/burns & copies DVD, works with flv, iPod/iPhone.
It does a ton of stuff including converting almost anything.
The video converter module works sweet. It dumb simple. Just drop whatever file and select MP4 output. I just converted 3 Qik video files over to MP4.
It also captures .flv from the web as well as audio MP3 etc. it has a "splitter/joiner feature that I haven't tried yet.
May be too little too late but maybe it'll help someone..
Plug phone into computer with USB cable. Pull down notification bar and tell it to mount.
Should open on your comp like a normal USB device.
Then you can make whatever folders you want in the DCIM folder (I Think?) Wherever you see the camera folder just make whatever you want along side it. I made a music, video, contact list, friends and family.
Copy paste your videos into the video folder you made (I've only tried .mp4). Unplug. ??
Go into you "Gallery" folder in your menu, should see what you created and be able to play whatever from there.
Phases: You need to UNMOUNT the card first before you just unplug or you might scramble it and loose everything.
Alright, I finally got the videos converting correctly for the Droid. Sometimes the audio is a bit off though. At first I thought it was due to the conversion process, but when I tried playing the same video a few minutes later, everything was synced up fine.
Does anyone know how to get titles to show up on the videos as well? Right now my "movies" folder is showing all the thumbnails, but I have no way of knowing which video it is since they're all pretty similar. I've gone through all the settings in the gallery app, but I haven't seen anything applying to titles at all.
Long press the file, select edit>rename
Easy Peasy
Handbrake 0.9.4 wont let me change the resolution on videos with a smaller resolution than the Droid's screen. with 0.9.3 it would let me change it. Any suggestions?
Handbrake 0.9.4 wont let me change the resolution on videos with a smaller resolution than the Droid's screen. with 0.9.3 it would let me change it. Any suggestions?
Currently trying to convert a 512x384.
This is a glitch. I posted on the handbrake forums about it and they were surprised. The short answwer was dont up convert but set anamorphic to on.
Search for my name on handbrake forums for more details.
I just did my first movie, which started as an MKV rip of a Blu-Ray disc. Final file size was 1.4 GB, and it plays just beautifully (original size was 1920 x 800, I kept aspect ration and transcoded it to 848 * 352, and it took under 1.5 hours.)
Though I haven't been here in a long time, just wanted to say again, that this place rocks.
I 'm a bit confused as to exactly which version of HandBrake to download. I understand the converting process....just needed to know where to start! Thanks
hey folks,
was using xilisoft converter, and converted a bunch of .avi's no prob. I just input the same resolution as source file, and although not sure if necessary, set it to 2-pass encode. this worked great for all my toons.
couple questions:
I'm using Meridian Player (upgraded, although IDK what that did for me exactly), and anything approaching 1,000kbps gives a warning that video may lag or not play. they play, but I read somewhere that bitrate was capped at 1,000, don't know if for Meridian Player, or for Droid, but people are talking about bitrates of 1500. Is it my player?
tried Handbrake, it says win7 compatible, but won't work, followed guide off of other site, which specifies 1500 bitrate. Problem is I start app, get source, set up for legacy ipod, then make adjustments, start encoding, CLI pops up and a few seconds go by, then it says step 1 of 3 100%, the lower left still says encoding, but it's obvious that it's not due to cpu usage, then after another 20s or so I get a pop-up saying Handbrake has stopped working. I tried reinstalling it, but same results, also tried compatibility mode, but same results.
so, back to xilisoft, now trying to re-encode BD files, however had sync issues, and the picture was small, didn't fill up width, but at the time used 800x480. after reading some posts set to 848x464, and I get another warning saying size too big for screen, which is weird bcz I have another vid, from mkv source, which I set to 800x480, but came out as 853xsomething, and that plays fine. anybody encoding from blu-ray with good solution?
I may try the aforementioned yxflash, as it supposedly plays .avi's, that would be handy as I already have a ton of files in that format. I would really like to get the blu-ray conversion down though. I've googled for mp4 converters and tried several, but none that worked right. In some cases I found that I first had to run the file through tsmuxer to downgrade audio to either dts or ac3 first, as converters wouldn't read HD audio formats.
also tried xvid4psp, which I used to use for ipod, and it works great, but it won't read .m2ts files properly, which it's supposed to do, and I'm almost positive I've used in the past. It's almost like something is up with my computer, but everything seems to be working fine aside from these apps.
Phases: You need to UNMOUNT the card first before you just unplug or you might scramble it and loose everything.
Hi,
I was wondering about that, but when I go to settings, etc (which would be a pita tbh to do every time), Unmount is greyed out. afaik, that is just for removing sd card. and, if you pull the drop down menu, with usb connected, and select Turn Off USB Storage, the prompt says to unmount first, which you can't do. so, I don't see any other recourse than just pulling plug, which I have been doing since I got the Droid and haven't experienced any problems.
Hi,
I was wondering about that, but when I go to settings, etc (which would be a pita tbh to do every time), Unmount is greyed out. afaik, that is just for removing sd card. and, if you pull the drop down menu, with usb connected, and select Turn Off USB Storage, the prompt says to unmount first, which you can't do. so, I don't see any other recourse than just pulling plug, which I have been doing since I got the Droid and haven't experienced any problems.
thanks,
rlr
Some confusion of terms here. Understandable with the menu on the Droid.
Although the USB devices/drives are SUPPOSED to be PnP, if you don't "stop" it on the computer first, it can bork the card. There should be an icon in the system tray to "unmount" USB devices. Or you can find it in explorer. Find the drive letter assigned to the card when it is mounted, right click and choose "eject". It should give you a message saying it is safe to remove the device now. Some systems use "write behind caching" and if the card is still being written to, it will corrupt it.
Dana
Some confusion of terms here. Understandable with the menu on the Droid.
Although the USB devices/drives are SUPPOSED to be PnP, if you don't "stop" it on the computer first, it can bork the card. There should be an icon in the system tray to "unmount" USB devices. Or you can find it in explorer. Find the drive letter assigned to the card when it is mounted, right click and choose "eject". It should give you a message saying it is safe to remove the device now. Some systems use "write behind caching" and if the card is still being written to, it will corrupt it.
Dana
I see, that makes sense, I was thinking phone, not pc
Thanks!
Try HD Encoder from XDA Developers forum. This one is really easy to use and converts everything to compatible MP4 files.
cool, thanks, but searched xda forums and couldn't find app, there was a post specifically for G1 that suggested Super encoder, haven't tried it though, and wasn't sure about the specs the guy was using, 480x272(?). this is contrary to what others were saying, 848w. I wonder if 464h is too high, and that's what is throwing the error about video size being too big, trying another encode now at 352, which someone specified, using xilisoft bd ripper.
Is anyone using Meridian player at all? I paid for the registered version via author's website, not sure what is different though. Thinking of trying Act1, it's only a buck and a half, might as well.
Although, I would very much like to play .avi files on Droid. is it confirmed that yxflash does this (well)? It was my impression that the Droid doesn't support .avi though.
OK, more confusing. encoded a BD rip clip to .mp4 h264/aac, 1200/192, 848x352, Meridian Player says screen size too large, and won't play, only audio. Installed act I, it says "playable", along with all my other vids, which in Meridian gave "too high bitrate" warning, even though between 800-900kbps, BUT in Act I the same clip comes out really small, there is a huge border all the way around it, yet it's supposed to be at 848x352, which should fill width at least, now I don't know if it's the player or converter, or what. It said something about a zoom function and to read about in help file, I don't know where they d/l that file too though, but it's kind of beside the point because at 848x352 I should be mostly filling screen, right? Hate to say it, but I think iPod handles video better, never had any probs encoding for that, or very little, but maybe droid just needs to mature a little more, idfk, what I do know is I've devoted way too much time to this, lol, nevertheless I'm determined to find solution.
The thing is, MP4 isn't always the same, there are millions of options. I used to have huge problems with encoding videos in mp4 for my Xperia X1 (uses the same kind of MP4 like Android).
Progress- took my Star Trek '09 clip and set xilisoft BD encoder to 848x480. Video size came out good, it's ultra wide screen so has top and bottom borders, as to be expected, but it does fill the width of the screen. Only prob now is that video is choppy, and I have no audio. I suspect the audio problem is related to re-encoding the HD audio, had same prob with other converters, should be fine if I downconvert to standard format first, although makes it a 2 step process which I wanted to avoid, but the first step is quick so no big.
But as far as video choppiness, what bitrate is best for Droid?
I read to do it at 1500, but previously was using ~800, and did not experience choppiness.
Boo for Meridian Player, this same file again says it's unplayable, yet with Act I it plays, albeit not quite right yet.
Device(s): Soon a Motorola Milestone and when I get my hands on it the Nexus One, until then an Xperia X1
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Don't set too high bitrates. You aren't going to see any real difference and will use up a lot more memory and when playing a lot more calucation power (cpu, gpu) and that for more energy and shorter battery life.
800 bit is imho absolutely OK.
The thing is, MP4 isn't always the same, there are millions of options. I used to have huge problems with encoding videos in mp4 for my Xperia X1 (uses the same kind of MP4 like Android).
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