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Watching movies on Droid

wallstreet123456

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Nov 11, 2009
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I am wanting to take a movie I have on DVD and put it on my droid to make the morning train comute a little nice.

I found a product called Clone DVD mobile which I think will do this but do I need to download a program on the droid to view it?

Are there any steps available for downloading files to the droid and how to view them?
 
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. I have several mp4 on the SD - but gallery doesn't display the file name - only the opening screen as the icon, so I get frustrated trying to find which one I want to watch.

. One movie is gladiator which I never saw, so I settled in my airplane seat fired it up (after searching as above) but opening scenes is text history that is so small that I could not read it.

Any solutions? TIA
 
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Follow-up ques:

. I have several mp4 on the SD - but gallery doesn't display the file name - only the opening screen as the icon, so I get frustrated trying to find which one I want to watch.

. One movie is gladiator which I never saw, so I settled in my airplane seat fired it up (after searching as above) but opening scenes is text history that is so small that I could not read it.

Any solutions? TIA
Drives me nuts that I cannot see the names

As far as the video, this is the information I got on another forum on how to format your videos

https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/16659?tstart=0

So far, I loaded Sleeping Beauty and Up (it's great to keep my daughter entertained) and they look great
 
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Follow-up ques:

. I have several mp4 on the SD - but gallery doesn't display the file name - only the opening screen as the icon, so I get frustrated trying to find which one I want to watch.

. One movie is gladiator which I never saw, so I settled in my airplane seat fired it up (after searching as above) but opening scenes is text history that is so small that I could not read it.

Any solutions? TIA

for the first issue, you can use a file explorer like ASTRO File Manager to navigate to your video directory on your SD card, then watch the movies by clicking on them there.

for the second issue, make sure when you encode videos for Droid, you use a high resolution encoding -- the droid supports up to 854 x 480, and the extra resolution might make it easier to see text. i've had no problem reading subtitles on some other movies i encoded...just make sure you aren't encoding to iPhone default resolution, which will be lower quality.

i, too, have noticed the battery life is surprisingly long for video playback. On a cross-country flight I watched video for 3-4 hours and listened to music for 1-2 hours, and the battery was not even half gone!
 
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