droid full screen video

[prophet gideon]

I know there are forums gallore on this but i can seem to get anything right. I have tried using all the settings given for handbrake and i have tried dvd catylsts. I want to encode dvds to play on my droid but no matter what settings i use all i get is this dinky video with .5 inch bars on everyside. The closest i have gotten is using act 1 payer to strecth the video across but it majorly distorts the image do you know of any thing that can help me play full video like the ipod.

 

[shizzy1427]

Do you have the files saved on your computer? And do they play correctly in your comp's media player?

 

[prophet gideon]

yes they play fine they play full screen on my ipod but i just cant get them to play fullscreen on my driod. I realize that DVDs are limited to 720 but the picture is still way smaller than that i would say that it is the size of a small match box

 

[shizzy1427]

try using Format Factory to convert them to .mp4 format, that works for my files.
Format Factory - Free media file format converter
Let me know how it works out

 

[shizzy1427]

Any luck?

 

[DjSmooth]

I know there are forums gallore on this but i can seem to get anything right. I have tried using all the settings given for handbrake and i have tried dvd catylsts. I want to encode dvds to play on my droid but no matter what settings i use all i get is this dinky video with .5 inch bars on everyside. The closest i have gotten is using act 1 payer to strecth the video across but it majorly distorts the image do you know of any thing that can help me play full video like the ipod.

I have never used either of those converters mentioned, but I have used one that I think is a very good one. And I also found out that watching Video Fullscreen is not always a conversion issue, but a Player issue. For example, with the native movie player that comes with the Droid other than the video you shoot with the Droid, there is not a lot of formats that will play full screen.

There is a media Player in the Market called Meridian that will not play Full Screen either. However there is one in the Market that I can personally vouch for that does have the Option to play full screen in the settings, (Brightness settings and more), because I've been using it on a daily basis to watch the movies I'v converted to .mp4 H264.

The Player is called "Act1 Video" I forgot how much it was, but it is definitely worth it. Now as for converting movies, I use E.M. Total Video Converter, here are the setting I use, lets just say it took about an hour and a half to convert Star Trek (which isn't a small movie), and the size was about 720 mb.

To Convert: E.M. Total Video Converter

My Settings: (No freezing, stop and go, and audio is in full sync)

Profile name: iPhone H264 normal quality
Target type: .mp4

Custom audio sample rate: 48000 b/s
Custom audio bit rate: 48.000 kbit/s
Audio codec: aac

Custom video frame rate: 24.000 /s
Custom video bit rate: 768 kbit/s
Video codec: h264

 

[DroidJnkie]

I had a ton of trouble getting the settings just exactly right. Finally, I just tried Doubletwist.

I read somewhere that it converts any video you sync with the droid, according to the droid

 

[SinfulDragon]

giving doubletwist a shot now. ran into one vid so far that it doesn't want to convert but that could simply be because its a protected file.

 

[DroidJnkie]

what I do is save the .avi file to my desktop, open up Doubletwist with the Droid connected, and simply drag the .avi file right into the

 

[SinfulDragon]

well it converts quickly but I don't have any video files that haven't already been converted to try, all the ones I tried have already been converted once and while the file is larger after converting with doubletwist, there are still black lines on each side of the video.

 

[DellsDontBounce]

I have been using the default iPod/iPhone settings in Handbrake, and everything, DVD, divx, mkv, all encodes correctly and displays just fine on my Droid. Weird.

 

[shizzy1427]

Glad you got it to work

 

[DroidJnkie]

there are still black lines on each side of the video.

That's very weird. I just tried viewing a video, and it's completely full screen. There are black lines literally like 1 mm thick on either side of the video, but when I press "home" they are the same black lines on the border of the screen. So, my videos are completely FULL screen.

But, I must say, that I have converted only TV shows so far.

 

[THEHYLAND]

I have never used either of those converters mentioned, but I have used one that I think is a very good one. And I also found out that watching Video Fullscreen is not always a conversion issue, but a Player issue. For example, with the native movie player that comes with the Droid other than the video you shoot with the Droid, there is not a lot of formats that will play full screen.

There is a media Player in the Market called Meridian that will not play Full Screen either. However there is one in the Market that I can personally vouch for that does have the Option to play full screen in the settings, (Brightness settings and more), because I've been using it on a daily basis to watch the movies I'v converted to .mp4 H264.

The Player is called "Act1 Video" I forgot how much it was, but it is definitely worth it. Now as for converting movies, I use E.M. Total Video Converter, here are the setting I use, lets just say it took about an hour and a half to convert Star Trek (which isn't a small movie), and the size was about 720 mb.

To Convert: E.M. Total Video Converter

My Settings: (No freezing, stop and go, and audio is in full sync)

Profile name: iPhone H264 normal quality
Target type: .mp4

Custom audio sample rate: 48000 b/s
Custom audio bit rate: 48.000 kbit/s
Audio codec: aac

Custom video frame rate: 24.000 /s
Custom video bit rate: 768 kbit/s
Video codec: h264

I went to the market and tried the free trial one. Works great will have to buy full version one.

Thanks Jerry

 

[gwlaw99]

I broke down and paid the $10 for DVD catalyst. It has a setting just for the Droid and works perfectly.

 

[jtan]

I stumbled upon an blog article about watching DVDs on android phone, you could check it for ur answer ...
"Watch DVD Movies and Videos on Android Phone...

"

 

[Elber-Gudo]

works great droidjnkie thanks for the tip downloaded and works 100%.....

 

[mastermjg]

Here's the rub. Go to Koyote Soft and download the free video converter. Use the preset setting for ipod > ipodTouch > widescreen and then drop the video bitrate down to like 750kbps. You may want to adjust the aspect ratio settings if your video is not exactly 16x9 :: 720 x 406.

 

[BigDaddyCool]

DoTheWeb.net - What Can The Web Do For You Today?

Choose the dvd to droid link. I use it. I love it. Converts everything perfectly with no settings required. Just pop in the DVD and follow the on screen instructions and it will convert for you.

 

[THEHYLAND]

DoTheWeb.net - What Can The Web Do For You Today?

Choose the dvd to droid link. I use it. I love it. Converts everything perfectly with no settings required. Just pop in the DVD and follow the on screen instructions and it will convert for you.

It works great for almost all my movies. I also bought the act 1 video player that makes the movies full screen.

P.S. if u use the dvd to droid the movies open up to a nice clear size in netbooks and lap tops. The man did a great job with that program.

Jerry THEHYLAND

 

[flailer]

I had a ton of trouble getting the settings just exactly right. Finally, I just tried Doubletwist.

I read somewhere that it converts any video you sync with the droid, according to the droid

 

[rayray69]

i use DVDfad 7.03.0 with ipod 720*406 and work great and its full screen.

 

[4DAIVI PAI2K5]

Rock player plays avi files in full screen I loaded from my PC

 

[droid_head]

EDIT:

tried rock player with a raw avi file. it still played it in wide screen mode.

opened raw avi file with default player and presto, played full screen.

naturally it looks a tad bit distorted (elongated) but very bearable.

this is super easy and cant wait to watch The Town and The Mechanic on my plane trip.