xvid & mkv support?

[SuperPhly]

Will the EVO support these formats in 720p?

 

[kimrari]

At the moment any answer would be speculation. After the release party on Wednesday, we should have far more concrete details. Speaking generally, MKV is just a "container" which could contain any number of codecs. Xvid is not natively supported within Android, and a request has been submitted to Google:

Issue 6561 - android - Divx And Xvid Support - Project Hosting on Google Code

However, a temporary solution would be to install a media player from the Market which supports the codecs you intend to use. I hope this post has been helpful.

 

[drksilenc]

um as of now there arnt any

 

[Android 17]

I hope it supports MKV's soon, or rather do some players already support it? With such a large screen, it'd be nice to be able to watch even subtitled stuff.

 

[travisr528]

I hope it supports MKV's soon, or rather do some players already support it? With such a large screen, it'd be nice to be able to watch even subtitled stuff.

I don't think that matters to much since the screen is WVGA (800x480). You will not be able to view it on your phone in 720p format. But I guess you could use the hdmi cord but there are better ways to do it.

 

[neodorian]

Xvid is an mpeg4 codec but I don't know what will work natively aside from the h.264 codec as far as mpeg4 video. Worst case scenario you have to put together or download a preset for your transcoder of choice and do a little re-coding.

 

[drksilenc]

well i shouldnt say there isnt a player there is one but its only out in mandarin atm. so it needs translated. theres more info about it on xda but ic ant remember where on there site

 

[reallynotnick]

Xvid is an mpeg4 codec but I don't know what will work natively aside from the h.264 codec as far as mpeg4 video. Worst case scenario you have to put together or download a preset for your transcoder of choice and do a little re-coding.

Better yet don't re-encode it, just put it into a different wrapper. I have programs that can take the H.264 video from an MKV file and put it in a standard mpeg4 file, it then just re-encodes the audio from either Dolby or DTS to AAC as standard Mpeg4 doesn't do either. The video remains untouched so no loss of quality and it is VERY fast.

I use MKVtools on my Mac, I am sure there is something just like it on Windows and most likely Linux too.

 

[FaberfoX]

I'll just leave this here

http://androidforums.com/htc-incredible/74129-free-app-play-xvid-divx.html#post736194